In Texas, Occidental Petroleum is looking to capture carbon dioxide from two ethanol plants and inject the gas into its underground wells to help extract oil. delay is striking because the tax credit was one of the few climate policies to attract bipartisan support. Democratic backers said that carbon capture could prove necessary to cut climate change pollution from industrial sources like cement or steel plants that are otherwise hard to clean up. Republican supporters, along with coal and oil companies, saw carbon capture as a less disruptive way to reduce emissions than abandoning fossil fuels altogether. And while many environmentalists recoiled from a policy that would aid oil extraction, some green groups said that oil industry support could help drive down the cost of carbon capture faster.

Source: International New York Times February 11, 2020 16:48 UTC