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Frontier is helping Arbor build a “vegetarian rocket engine” to power data centers

Frontier, the organization backed by Stripe, Google, and Meta, announced Tuesday it is paying startup Arbor Energy to remove 116,000 tons of carbon dioxide by the end of the decade. The deal gives Arbor $41 million to help it build its first commercial-scale power plant in southern Louisiana that will burn waste biomass to generate […]

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Trump administration to claw back $3.7B in clean energy and manufacturing awards

Climate / Sasandara Dilmina

The Department of Energy announced today that it would be clawing back $3.7 billion worth of awards made under the Biden administration for clean energy and manufacturing. Large corporations and growing startups were caught up in the decision. Energy secretary Chris Wrights said the moves were “due diligence” on the part of the Trump administration.

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RepAir Carbon is making carbon removal machines inspired by batteries

Climate / Sasandara Dilmina

In the span of a decade, direct air capture technology that draws CO2 out of the atmosphere has gone from wildly expensive to somewhat expensive. Companies like Microsoft, which set a target to eliminate its emissions by 2030, is happy to pay more to get the ball rolling. But smaller companies would still balk at

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Microsoft inks massive carbon removal deal powered by a paper mill

Enterprise / Sasandara Dilmina

Microsoft announced on Friday that it is buying 3.7 million metric tons of carbon removal credits from CO280, a project developer that works with pulp and paper mills. The purchase covers 12 years of emissions from CO280’s first carbon capture project at a mill on the Gulf Coast. CO280 expects the facility to start capturing

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Mitico raises $4.3M seed round to capture CO2 using ‘prehistoric chemistry’

Fundraising / Sasandara Dilmina

The world is in a pickle: Human activity continues to dump too much CO2 into the atmosphere, raising the risk of catastrophic global warming. At the same time, the most climate-friendly way to keep using fossil fuels, carbon capture, has hit a rough patch. Only around 40 facilities worldwide are capturing some of the carbon

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E-fuels startup will make diamonds before powering jet planes

Transportation / Sasandara Dilmina

September 11 left a lasting impression on Stephen Beaton, and like many others of his generation, he joined the military. But at the U.S. Air Force academy, his journey took a bit of a turn. There, his chemistry studies deepened his interest in liquid fuels. “As a product of September 11, seeing the spike in

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Heirloom Carbon raises $150M to remove CO2 from the air using rocks

Fundraising / Sasandara Dilmina

The globe likely breezed past 1.5 degrees C of warming above pre-industrial levels this year, crashing through the 2016 Paris Agreement’s aspirational target. Further warming increases the risk of catastrophic consequences, including more frequent extreme droughts, floods, and fires; stronger hurricanes; faster-spreading infectious diseases; and declining wildlife and fish populations. A host of carbon-capture startups

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Amazon teams up with Orbital to remove CO2 from the air at one of its datacenters

Enterprise / Sasandara Dilmina

AI’s surging power demand has put several big tech firms at risk of blowing through their climate commitments. But Amazon has partnered with Orbital, an AI startup, to test a new material that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — and they’re using an AWS datacenter as a first site. One of carbon capture’s biggest

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Turnover Labs is helping chemical plants to reuse their waste CO2

Fundraising / Sasandara Dilmina

As petrochemical plants and other emitters look to reduce emissions, they’re finding that sopping up and storing all the carbon dioxide they produce doesn’t come cheap. First they have to capture it, an energy-intensive process that requires specialized equipment. Then they have to transport it and stash it away, which can be tricky depending on

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NovoNutrients tweaks its bugs to turn CO2 into protein for people and pets

Fundraising / Sasandara Dilmina

The easiest way for a person to eat carbon dioxide is by consuming vegetables. David Tze wants his startup’s protein to be a close second. Tze’s company, NovoNutrients, has been working on a way to use microbes to turn carbon dioxide into protein that can be used in food for humans and feed for animals.

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