CARBON CAPTURE
World's largest trap for airborne CO2 planned for West Texas
A subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corp. is teaming up with a Canadian company to design the world's largest plant to remove carbon dioxide from the air.
Christa Marshall
Energywire Editor
Christa was previously a reporter at Greenwire, covering the Department of Energy, energy technologies and science policy and was a reporter and assistant deputy editor at Climatewire. Since joining E&E News in 2008, she has interviewed leaders like Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and former Vice President Al Gore and has covered everything from climate adaptation to the Keystone XL pipeline fight. A graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, she formerly worked for The Denver Post and NPR.
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