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The Carbon Cleanup Industry Is Growing in Louisiana
Startup Heirloom announced it will be building facilities to suck carbon from the air in the northwest corner of the state, thanks to a skilled workforce and ideal geology.
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The Biden administration’s hub to clean carbon from the air in northwest Louisiana is getting company. On Monday, Heirloom Carbon announced that it’s constructing a facility with machines that can remove 17,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually.
The startup counts JPMorgan Chase & Co., Autodesk Inc. and Klarna Bank AB among its customers. The tons of carbon captured by the new facility — slated to go online in 2026 — have already been purchased and will go to, among others, Microsoft Corp. and a buyer group known as Frontier.