The Los Angeles Times first reported on the tax filings showing the financial connections between the Livermore Lab’s carbon capture campaign and the front groups run by DTE Energy executives. CARB administers California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard, which provides subsidies that are driving interest in carbon capture projects at ethanol facilities. The emails were obtained by Biofuelwatch and some were published in a December 2021 report, “Carbon Capture or Captured Futures? Some emails show Livermore Lab Energy Program Chief Scientist Roger Aines and Livermore Lab Carbon Management Partnership Director George Peridas seeking advice from Welch about op-ed strategies to promote the Livermore Lab report, before it was published. Welch responded that the Livermore Lab report “Will be most useful”Now as a lobbyist for oil, gas and power companies that could benefit from policies that promote carbon capture in California, Welch regularly uses the Livermore Lab report.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 28, 2022 20:12 UTC