An environmental group is urging the Trump administration to prevent a climate technology startup from using the oceans to limit global warming.
Friends of the Earth argued Monday that President Donald Trump’s EPA had failed to adequately consider the “reckless and irreversible ecological damage” that could result from a first-of-its-kind marine carbon dioxide removal pilot project planned by Carboniferous.
The group is asking EPA to withdraw, modify or, at the very least, hold a public hearing on a permit it issued last month to the startup. EPA’s authorization in March didn’t mention climate change or explain why Carboniferous is pursuing its biomass dumping test in the Gulf of Mexico.
A public hearing is the only way to “ensure a robust, transparent decisionmaking process that rigorously examines the scientific merit of the research and incorporates expert analysis that, to date, has been arbitrarily ignored,” Friends of the Earth said in the request.
