False Promises. Why carbon capture and storage won’t fix our climate crisis.
By Katie Worth and Lucas Waldron, ProPublica; additional reporting by Amy Westervelt and Maddie Stone, Drilled; illustration and animation by Case Jernigan for ProPublica; design by Anna Donlan, ProPublica.
For more than 40 years, oil companies have been funding research at prestigious universities into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas. Among their favored fixes is carbon capture and storage.
An investigation by ProPublica and Drilled has found that boosters of CCS have ignored evidence of the technology’s limitations, or overstated its potential, and convinced the world it could be effective.
