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Charting DAC hubs’ progress, two years later
The Regional Direct Air Capture (DAC) Hubs program was created to narrow the gap between the current technological maturity of domestic DAC innovations and the large scale required for meaningful …
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Leveraging trade policy as climate policy
Members of Congress from both parties and the Biden administration agree that international trade policy is an effective, if underutilized, tool to mitigate carbon emissions abroad and at home. Though …
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On the road to net negative, carbon removal can help speed decarbonization
Today, there is widespread agreement that we must not only immediately and aggressively decarbonize across the economy but build an accompanying carbon removal (CDR) sector to draw down CO2 from …
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Enhanced oil recovery has no place in the Regional DAC Hubs program
The Regional Direct Air Capture (DAC) Hubs program will be the first megaton scale deployment of carbon removal in the world, representing a 400x increase in DAC capacity. It is …
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Progress and potential for the South Texas DAC hub
After a year of negotiations, the Department of Energy (DOE) has made its second award to a commercial-scale DAC hub, 1PointFive’s South Texas hub, as part of the Regional Direct …
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The new members of our Environmental Justice Advisory Council
For the last two years, Carbon180 has worked with a dynamic and diverse cohort of leaders from different environmental justice (EJ) groups as part of our regranting work. By forming …
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The difference between carbon removal and carbon capture
What these two approaches really mean for communities and the climate
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A playbook for federal procurement
As the world’s largest buyer of goods and services, the United States federal government wields significant market influence and can effectively mobilize taxpayer resources. With this power, many policymakers and …
