California Okays First Carbon-Capture Project

October 23, 2024

In a first for California, a county in the heart of the oil industry has approved a plan for capturing carbon dioxide emissions from gas field operations and storing the climate-warming gas deep underground. But Roger D. Aines and George Peridas argue in Issues that the state will need to do more to reach its goal of “achieving a completely carbon-neutral economy by 2045, and becoming carbon negative after that.” In some good news, the authors cite their study showing that there are “a host of ways” for capturing and storing carbon dioxide, and that they will be “a lot less costly than previously imagined.”