Seizing the carbon capture opportunity for US energy dominance

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Within hours of reentering the White House, President Donald Trump issued a flurry of executive orders to make it easier and cheaper to produce and use fossil fuels while dismantling Biden-era climate commitments and freezing federal funding for clean energy projects.

But in this black-gold rush to “drill baby, drill,” the administration risks throwing the baby out with the bathwater — the baby being carbon capture, and the bathwater being former President Joe Biden’s signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act.

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