• EcoAction webinar, Monday, July 8, 8 PM ET

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Earth Justice describes Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) and carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) as technologies that capture carbon emissions at fossil-fueled power plants and industrial facilities. The carbon is then either sequestered underground or put to use. For years, this technology has been championed by the fossil fuel industry as a way to keep burning coal and gas purportedly with a smaller climate impact. There are less than 20 CCS projects operating in the U.S. today, and nearly all of them use the captured carbon to pump more oil out of the ground through a process called “enhanced oil recovery.” With new taxpayer subsidies available, including in the Inflation Reduction Act, we could see a boom in new CCS and CCUS projects

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https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctfu6urzkiE9EwnjM9ssHGgZ6etnqeZn5A

Presenters include Jim Walsh from Food and Water Watch;  Maggie Coulter from Center for Biological Diversity; Carolyn Raffensperger from SEHN (Science and Environmental Health Network); and The Reverend Michael Malcom, Executive Director of Alabama Interfaith Power and Light.

Jim Walsh is the Policy Director for Food & Water Watch. Jim has led efforts and overseen numerous campaigns focusing on priorities such as banning fracking, labeling genetically engineered foods, ending water privatization, as well as pushing back on the fossil fuel industry backed false solutions to the climate crisis including carbon pricing, offsets, carbon capture, hydrogen and factory farm biogas.

Maggie Coulter is a senior attorney in the Climate Law Institute at the Center for Biological Diversity, where she works to protect people, wildlife and ecosystems from climate change, eliminate greenhouse gas pollution and speed the just transition to 100 percent clean, renewable energy. Her work focuses on federal oil and gas issues and false solutions to the climate emergency.

Carolyn Raffensperger is a lawyer serving as the executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network. / Carolyn is co-editor of Precautionary Tools for Reshaping Environmental Policy published by M.I.T. Press (2006) and Protecting Public Health and the Environment: Implementing the Precautionary Principle, published by Island Press (1999. She convenes a national network on carbon capture and storage (CCS) called the CO2 Plenary. She was a lawyer at Standing Rock assisting in the resistance to the Dakota Access pipeline.

The Reverend Michael Malcom is the Executive Director of Alabama Interfaith Power and Light and a licensed and ordained United Church of Christ Minister. He is the founder of The People’s Justice Council which focuses on environmental justice. Rev Malcom serves as the Environmental Justice Minister for the Southeast Conference of the United Church of Christ.

Photograph: Scientist collecting a sediment core to assess carbon sequestration rates in the sediment of a tidal seagrass bed