Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Funds Removing Carbon Dioxide From the Air

Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Funds Removing Carbon Dioxide From the Air
A detail of the pilot carbon dioxide capture plant is pictured at the Amager Bakke waste incinerator in Copenhagen, Denmark on June 24, 2021. Ida Guldbaek Arentsen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images
Nathan Worcester
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If the driver of climate change is too much carbon dioxide, then one solution would be to remove that gas from the air. The $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill passed by the Senate on Aug. 10 includes massive investments in direct air capture technologies to do just that.

These technologies have elicited interest from the private sector and other governments as well as continued skepticism from some quarters.

Nathan Worcester
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Nathan Worcester is an award-winning journalist for The Epoch Times based in Washington, D.C. He frequently covers Capitol Hill, elections, and the ideas that shape our times. He has also written about energy and the environment. Nathan can be reached at [email protected]
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