Environmentalists Ramp Up CCS Attacks Amid Infrastructure Debates

July 20, 2021
Environmentalists who oppose carbon capture and storage (CCS) are ramping up their criticism of the technology as a climate mitigation strategy, even as lawmakers are crafting the details of a major infrastructure package expected to include several provisions that would encourage CCS. “Simply put, technological carbon capture is a dangerous distraction. We don’t need to fix fossil fuels, we need to ditch them. To avoid catastrophic climate change, we need to deploy resources to replace the fossil fuel...


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