It’s Time to End Carbon Capture of Climate Policy An Open Letter to US and Canadian Leaders n behalf of our millions of members and supply power and heat, and reusing inputs to reduce operations that are dangerous for the climate and supporters across the United States and the production of virgin material. communities. Pumping even more public funds into OCanada, we call on policymakers to recognize CCS makes dirty energy even more dangerous for new CCS subsidies for fossil fuel and petrochemical that carbon capture and storage (CCS) is not a frontline communities. Facilities equipped with carbon industries will just prop up unsustainable business climate solution. It is a dangerous distraction driven capture technology have to burn more fossil fuel to models. by the same big polluters who created the climate get the same energy output, resulting in increased We don’t need to fix fossil fuels; we need to ditch emergency. emissions of toxic and hazardous pollutants, like fine them. Instead of capturing carbon to pump it back CCS is unnecessary. Renewable energy sources like particulates (PM2.5). underground, we should keep fossil fuels in the solar and wind are cheaper and cleaner than fossil CCS imposes even more risks on communities from ground in the first place. And instead of bankrolling fuels. CCS just makes dirty energy more expensive and CO2 pipelines and storage. Transporting, injecting, CCS, public funds should be boosting sustainable, more energy-intensive. and storing CO2 presents new environmental, health, job-creating solutions to the climate crisis, for fossil- CCS does not work. CCS projects have systematically and safety hazards in communities targeted for CCS dependent workers and communities: phasing out oil, overpromised and under-delivered. Despite the billions infrastructure. Pipelines can leak or rupture, and gas, and coal; investing in energy efficiency and non- of taxpayer dollars wasted on CCS to date, the injection can contaminate water sources. These risks combustion renewable energy sources; and protecting technology has not made a dent in CO2 emissions. fall disproportionately on Black, Brown, Indigenous, forests and other ecosystems that naturally capture and store carbon. CCS will do little to reduce industrial emissions. and low-income communities, further entrenching a Deploying CCS at scale is not economically viable bleak history of environmental racism. It’s time for decision-makers to abandon the dirty, for most heavy-emitting industries, such as plastic Most CCS benefits polluters. Nearly 80% of captured dangerous myth of CCS. We call on you to: or chemical manufacturing. It diverts resources from carbon is used to pump more oil out of the ground Stop subsidizing CCS. Stop permitting CCS. Stop using available and scalable alternatives such as replacing through “enhanced oil recovery.” Polluting industries CCS to justify climate inaction. And don’t pretend you’re fossil fuels with clean renewable energy sources to are using the myth of CCS to justify business-as-usual a climate leader if CCS is part of your climate plan.

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