A Kern County judge ruled that approval of California’s first operating carbon capture and storage project — a technology the state is counting on to meet its climate goals — violated state environmental law and must be set aside.
Judge Marcos Camacho found that environmental review of California Resources Corp.’s TerraVault project, which Kern County supervisors approved in October 2024, fell short in several ways. Among them, it failed to analyze the industries expected to supply the project with carbon dioxide…