“These are ambitious and challenging goals that we must meet to lessen the worst impacts of climate change and leave future generations a livable and healthy California,” said Air Resources Board Chair Liane Randolph.
California has approved a historic and highly anticipated climate plan that will rapidly reshape how we power our cars, heat our homes, construct our buildings and capture pollution already in the atmosphere.
The final plan has been a long time coming. An earlier version, released in May, was met with harsh rebukes from environmental groups and the governor, who criticized the plan for not going far enough to reduce emissions amid the intensifying impacts of the climate crisis. “The track record for CCS is very, very bad — both in terms of being extremely expensive and being very unsuccessful in doing what it says it's going to do,” said David Weiskopf, a senior policy advisor at the nonprofit NextGen Policy.
While there are currently no carbon removal or capture and storage projects in California, the Department of Energy recently awarded $31 million to 10 projects across the country to develop carbon capture technologies, including one in Palo Alto. The scoping plan also cites the state’s 17 refineries as sites for potential consideration.
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