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Tapping the Ocean’s Carbon Superpowers

For decades scientists have been refining methods to capture hydrogen from seawater while capturing carbon dioxide from the air and binding it in marine carbonates in the ocean. Equatic is one of a new cop of startups (Ebb Carbon, CarbonRun, and Planetary Technologies among them) who are beginning to bring this idea from the lab to the waterfront.

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U.S. finalizes big reforms to federal oil and gas drilling

President Joe Biden's administration on Friday finalized a range of reforms designed to boost returns and address environmental harms from drilling on public lands, a move that will increase fees for oil and gas companies that operate there.

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Carbon removals: How to scale a new gigaton industry

CO2 removal (CDR) capacity is far from the gigaton scale needed to round out businesses’ net-zero efforts by 2050. We explore a mature CDR market’s potential and possible first-mover advantages.

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Clem Tillion, Alaska’s original ‘fish czar,’ dies at 96

Clem Tillion had a story for everyone, it seemed, and now everyone is telling Clem Tillion stories. A towering figure in the worlds of Alaska fisheries and politics — and in the intersection between the two — Tillion, 96, died Wednesday morning at his home in Halibut Cove.

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Judge tosses Trump rollback of clean water safeguards

A federal judge has thrown out a Trump-era rule that ended federal protections for hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways and left them vulnerable to pollution from nearby development.

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