Greens want to slow Biden’s climate roll
Politico“The developers of carbon injection projects are not going to get environmental justice advocates on board,” said Jane Patton, campaign manager for plastics and petrochemicals at the Center for International Environmental Law. Biden signed an executive order last month emphasizing “that the pursuit of environmental justice is a duty of all executive branch agencies.” But activists are alarmed by the sheer volume of funding for carbon capture, which includes $3.5 billion for direct-air capture “hubs” and another $2.5 billion for six carbon capture facilities. “As long as that enormous amount of money is being rapidly pushed out by the federal government, that undermines any attempts to engage with or have conversations with environmental justice communities,” Patton said. “The permits being issued is the key problem here.” Nicole Parra, a former state lawmaker working with California Resources Corp., a petroleum company that’s seeking a federal grant to build a direct-air capture system in California’s Central Valley, is trying hard to win activists over.
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