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Sign the petition! Ask Congress to cut dangerous CCS subsidies - Ask Congress to cut wasteful CCS subsidies! Protect the public from a technology that risks people's health and water and can take their land.

CCS can risk public health and safety, damage cropland, pollute water, and take people's land. CCS is not possible without federal subsidies provided by 45Q of the IRS tax code. Tell Congress to protect hard-working people from this technology and end 45Q!. Sign here: bit.ly/petition-end...

And the most important thing to understand about the economy is that it only functions as a part of nature.

BIG step forward! Illinois Senate passes bill that protects drinking water for nearly one million people in Illinois. We still need to get protections for recharge areas, which we hope to do as it moves through the House in the next few weeks.

#CCS
#ProtectTheMahomet

We watched a very interesting episode about DNA and how scientists are now developing seeds from millions of years back which can potentially tolerate Climate change

NEW: Govt data CONFIRMS our estimate that UK greenhouse gas emissions fell by 4% to 371MtCO2e in 2024

As we said earlier this month, this took UK emissions to lowest level since 1872 – with coal use at its lowest since 1666 (!)

Our analysis: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Nearly 50 people flew to the Capitol on March 12 to send a message to Congress that 45Q tax credits for CCS are harming communities across the country.

Now it's your turn. Contact Congress today!
bit.ly/45Q-hurts-co...

#45Q
#CCS

A group of farmers and landowners in front of the Capitol building in Washington, DC, holding signs saying "Our farms are not for sale" and "No c02 pipelines."

Last week, 50 farmers & land owners went to DC to say NO to dangerous #CarbonCapture projects & pipelines. Join the movement! Call 866-582-4813 to be connected with your rep's office to say: stop taxpayer handouts to companies taking our land and endangering our communities!

The Senate vote was UNANIMOUS, and followed the vote in the House Committee on Tuesday, which passed by WIDE MARGIN - 23 to 3.

SB 1723 HB 3614 would protect the Mahomet Aquifer from CO2 pollution if sequestration projects proposed under the aquifer were to leak.
#CCS
#protectthemahomet

Newly released CCS Fact Sheet - The Illinois Coalition Against CO2 Pipelines just released a fact sheet that highlights concerns associated with carbon capture and storage.

Residents in Central Illinois threatened by 8 carbon capture and storage projects. This fact sheet was prepared to help them understand how CCS projects can affect their health and safety; their land and water; and their property rights.

See: bit.ly/CCS-fact-sheet

#CCS
#climatecrisis

As we move away from expensive fossil fuels, Illinois needs a strong and resilient grid. That’s why EJC is proud to support the Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act!

Ask your legislators to cosponsor the bill: ilcleanjobs.org/crga

#climatecrisis
#cleanenergy
#cleanenergyfuture

Tonight! February 13, 7pm CT
Join leaders across the country who are fighting the CCS industry and the billions of taxpayer dollars that are being used to keep fossil fuels alive.

Special Guest: Congressman Ro Khanna
Register here: bit.ly/CCS-Action-Launch

#CarbonCapture #NoFalseSolutions #CCS

Leaks from Illinois carbon capture wells last fall showed just how unsafe #CCS can be. Congress shouldn’t be in the business of subsidizing threats to our communities!

Read more about the dangers of CCS in this letter from advocates: bit.ly/Repeal45Q

#carboncapture #climatechange #cleanwater

Read the letter to Congress urging them to repeal 45Q which subsidizes CCS: bit.ly/Repeal45Q.
Register for the Thursday, February 13, 7pm CT, webinar to learn more about the hams associated with 45Q tax incentives:
bit.ly/CCS-Action-Launch
#climatecrisis #CCS

CCS ACTION NETWORK LAUNCH
Register here: bit.ly/CCS-Action-Launch
Special Guest: Congressman Ro Khanna

Join leaders across the country who are fighting the CCS industry and the billions of taxpayer dollars that are being used to keep fossil fuels alive. #CarbonCapture #NoFalseSolutions #CCS

At a time when we MUST stop burning fossil fuels, Republican Senators introduce legislation that will BOOST incentives for enhanced oil recovery. This will INCREASE CO2 emissions. bit.ly/3WTfitE

CCS doesn’t work. GET the facts.
#NoFalseSolutions #CCS

Consumer watchdogs launch $1M TV ad blitz against controversial Peoples Gas pipeline program The Citizens Utility Board and other advocates hope their "unprecedented" ad buy will help slash spending on the utility's pipeline replacement program — but Peoples Gas says the groups are "playing p...

Peoples Gas wants a blank check – and they want you to pay for it. That’s why a coalition of consumer watchdog and environmental groups in Illinois are calling on the Illinois Commerce Commission to shut down these unfair rate hikes! bit.ly/pgtvad

Sign the petition! Ask your state legislator and representative to protect Illinois' only sole source aquifer from CO2 pollution.
bit.ly/3EfQjKQ

PHMSA's draft rule to increase safety and oversight of CO2 pipelines was issued in the final days of the Biden Administration, but now has been withdrawn by Trump. What does this mean for landowners affected by CO2 pipelines? Join this webinar on 1-28 to learn more: bit.ly/co2pipelines

Republicans in Congress want to poison our water by repealing a rule that will protect communities from toxic lead water pipes – which are especially dangerous to babies.

Tell Congress to vote NO on the resolution to revoke the Lead Out of Water Rule: fwwat.ch/3WwMrv5

Air monitoring station records biggest ever jump in atmospheric CO2 Wildfires and fossil fuel burning in 2024 contributed to the biggest annual rise in atmospheric CO2 levels ever recorded at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii

Air monitoring station records biggest ever jump in atmospheric CO2

Four CCS projects proposed to store CO2 under Illinois' only sole-source aquifer are 50 times the size of ADM Decatur's project that leaked twice. Leaked CO2 could release heavy metals that would contaminate our drinking water. Why should our aquifer be a laboratory for #CCS? #ProtectTheMahomet

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No churning clouds, no furious winds, no dramatic light breaking through, just the sun's first rays dancing across one of our planet's most spectacular & imposing massifs. Torres del Paine, Patagonia.

#photography #travel #bluesky #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #scape

Sign the petition to tell the DOE to stop the exportation of #LNG at bit.ly/stopexportlng . LNG exports will make the climate crisis worse by pumping out greenhouse gases at the moment we must urgently reduce these emissions

Be sure to scroll down to the end of this article and click the link to tell your Senators to vote NO on these nominees!

Image of ADM plant in Decatur. Text reads: Last year, we learned the ONLY EPA approved operating carbon storage project in the country LEAKED. Not once, but TWICE! Thanks to CleanTechnia reporting, we now know ADM's CCS project captures JUST 10 to 125 of its emissions. #CCS is risky for communities and it doesn't work

Last year's leaks at ADM's Decatur, IL facility were a technical, operational, and a moral failure. Why risk communities drinking water for a technology that remains unproven, is expensive, and doesn't work?

#NoCCS
#Nofossilfuels
#End45Q

Billions of Dollars in Taxpayer Subsidies Support Carbon Capture. Is it a Massive Waste? One of President Biden’s signature achievements to combat climate change has been the approval of billions of dollars in federal subsidies to encourage carbon capture and storage. It sounds good: capt

MIT professor @_CHarvey_ on why #CarbonCapture projects don’t actually help reduce #climate pollution. Despite huge investments from the feds, captured carbon is mostly used to force more oil and gas out of the ground.

#CCS
#FossilFuels
#CarbonCapture