Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi helps Colorado Gov. Jared Polis cut a ceremonial ribbon opening the Global Thermostat"direct air capture" plant outside Denver on April 4, 2023. The plant pulls carbon dioxide from the air, helping fight climate change.The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 provides billions of dollars to companies that perform carbon capturesometimes called carbon sequestration.
Environmentalists increasingly believe reducing the amount of carbon released into the Earth's atmosphere is no longer enough to prevent the worst climate change consequences and that the overall level of CO2 in our atmosphere must be reduced. Humans released an estimated 40 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere last year, according to the International Energy Agency.
Carbon capture offers the possibility of allowing society to continue transitioning from fossil fuels without abruptly shutting down the oil and gas industry, which is today an important economic driver that provides hundreds of thousands of jobs, especially in rural states like Wyoming, Oklahoma, North Dakota and Alaska.
I think I saw that in a Mel Brooks movie once. MAGAmaid did the suck job.
If it can be done, let's do it...