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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
imageMost 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...

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