Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is being sold as a (something) solution by being a method of reducing carbon from industrial CO2 emission, but there is more than meets the eye with this risky practice. The benefits of CCS are being posed without adequate acknowledgement of the significant drawbacks and environmental concerns. There are currently no carbon capture and storage systems that are successful in capturing more than it consumes. There are also serious safety concerns when it comes to the transportation of captured CO2. Carbon capture and storage distract from the ultimate goal of rapidly reducing emissions, by pulling both funding and research resources away from clean energy.
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Food and Water Watch: Fossil fuel executives hope you’ll believe in their newest scheme — “CCS.” Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is the fossil fuel industry’s biggest scheme yet to persuade people that the climate crisis can be solved while still depending on what they’re selling.
As California prepares to update its low carbon fuel standard — a policy aiming to reduce emissions from transportation fuels — Indigenous groups and environmentalists across the Midwest are fighting one of its key provisions. The policy would incentivize ethanol
Introduction Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has become the darling of the Biden Administration as well as the fossil fuel industry hoping to continue its toxic emissions, and technology and engineering companies hoping to benefit from billions of dollars in
