Perhaps no other state in the nation has done more to fight climate change than California.
We stood up to the powerful auto industry and passed the first U.S. ban on new gasoline-powered car sales . The state is suing the world’s largest oil producers for decades of climate deception. Soon we’ll be stopping all new fracking as part of an historic plan to end oil extraction across the Golden State.
Even businesses, municipalities and advocates are uniting around an ambitious goal of achieving 100% clean power by 2045 by investing billions in renewable energy and eliminating the root cause of climate change — burning fossil fuels.
Now we appear poised to undermine this progress by opening California’s doors to the fossil fuel industry’s latest greenwashing scheme: carbon capture and storage. Let’s hope our politicians and environmental regulators, including the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy, reconsider.
The fossil fuel industry is spending millions to persuade the public that carbon capture is a viable solution to the climate crisis, but in reality, it’s a failed technology. And a growing number of climate scientists and energy experts, including the International Energy Agency , agree.