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The loophole is called carbon capture.
The Environmental Protection Agency just proposed its plan to slash greenhouse gas pollution from coal and gas power plants. To do that, it’s relying on controversial carbon capture technologies.
The Verge has the whole story on the announcement below. And you can check out our previous reporting on carbon capture’s checkered past. The Department of Energy has already wasted $684 million on failed carbon capture projects. And yet there are big plans to deploy the technologies all over the world, with a lot of help from the oil and gas industry.
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