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Construction Begins on the World’s Largest Carbon Removal Plant

Occidental Petroleum is building a plant to capture 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the air as a way to meet climate goals and make money selling offsets.

Carbon Engineering Ltd.’s pilot facility in British Columbia.

Photographer: James MacDonald/Bloomberg
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US oil giant Occidental Petroleum Corp. and Canadian startup Carbon Engineering Ltd. are preparing a site in the Permian basin in the US for a plant that will draw down 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year.