Economics, Ethics, Justice, and Possible Solutions
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Dr. Tamra Gilbertson of the Indigenous Environmental Network explains the finances of CCS
CCS is basically a way to move large sums of public money into the pockets of large corporations while claiming to remedy global heating..
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One "use" for CCS is to create "carbon credits" that can be sold to "offset" CO2 emissions
You have probably heard that you can buy “carbon credits” to neutralize or negate (or “offset”) your personal carbon emissions. Here’s the story behind carbon “offsets.”
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New Federal Law Promotes Big Oil's Agenda
The 2022 federal law, the Inflation Reduction Act, provides billions of dollars in incentives for CCS and EOR (enhanced oil recovery). The new incentives help make EOR three times as profitable as plain CCS, so more EOR projects seem certain to appear.
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Environmental Justice Leaders Question CCS
In 2011, Environmental Justice leaders wrote this letter to Lisa P. Jackson, who was then the Administrator of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), offering scientific evidence that CCS would not make coal-fired power plants any safer or healthier for local communities.
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Health and environment groups in California have petitioned their government to stop promoting CCS.
Led by Physicians for Social Responsibility, 13 leading health and environmental organizations have written a devastating critique of CCS and CCUS, asking California government to stop promoting this failed, unhealthy technology.
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Federal Actions To Address Environmental Justice In Minority Populations And Low-Income Populations
Read this Executive Order from 1994 about the responsibility of each Federal agency to make environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low-income populations in the United States.