A judge has found that the approval of California’s first operating carbon capture and storage project violated state environmental law.
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The industries expected to supply carbon dioxide to California Resources Corp.’s Carbon TerraVault 1 needed scrutiny that its environmental review didn’t provide, Kern County Judge Marcos Camacho found, CalMatters reported. County supervisors approved the project in October 2024.
The assessment named eight possible suppliers, among them hydrogen, cement, and steel manufacturers. But it didn’t evaluate how those facilities could affect surrounding communities.
Camacho wrote that excluding those likely sources “infects the informational foundation for the whole Project.”…