County Advances California’s First CCS Project Amid EJ Group Opposition

California’s Kern County has approved a conditional use permit for a first-of-its-kind carbon capture and storage (CCS) project tied to natural gas production, despite ongoing opposition from environmental and environmental justice (EJ) groups in the state. “California just fell for the biggest corporate scam since filtered cigarettes,” charged Victoria Bogdan Tejeda, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity’s (CBD) Climate Law Institute, in an Oct. 21 statement. “Carbon capture is a dangerous, wildly expensive failure. Instead of propping up...