Metropolitan Digital

Men's Weekly


.

Why the oil industry's pivot to carbon capture and storage – while it keeps on drilling – isn't a climate change solution

  • Written by June Sekera, Senior Research Fellow, Visiting Scholar, The New School
Why the oil industry's pivot to carbon capture and storage – while it keeps on drilling – isn't a climate change solutionMost carbon dioxide captured in the U.S. today is used to extract more oil.Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

After decades of sowing doubt about climate change and its causes, the fossil fuel industry is now shifting to a new strategy: presenting itself as the source of solutions. This repositioning...

Read more: Why the oil industry's pivot to carbon capture and storage – while it keeps on drilling – isn't a...

More Articles ...

  1. SUV tragedy in Wisconsin shows how vehicles can be used as a weapon of mass killing – intentionally or not
  2. Supreme Court could redefine when a fetus becomes a person, upholding abortion limits while preserving the privacy right under Roe v. Wade
  3. The average person's daily choices can still make a big difference in fighting climate change – and getting governments and utilities to tackle it, too
  4. How the pandemic helped spread fentanyl across the US and drive opioid overdose deaths to a grim new high
  5. Project Veritas and the mainstream media: Strange allies in the fight to protect press freedom
  6. Americans support climate change policies, especially those that give them incentives and clean up the energy supply
  7. Infrastructure law's digital equity goals are key to smart cities that work for everyone
  8. Adoptees nationwide may soon gain access to their original birth certificates
  9. Talking turkey! How the Thanksgiving bird got its name (and then lent it to film flops)
  10. The first Thanksgiving is a key chapter in America's origin story – but what happened in Virginia four months later mattered much more
Metropolitan republishes selected articles from The Conversation USA with permission

Visit The Conversation to see more