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An oil company is seeking property tax breaks to finance its plans to remove carbon dioxide from Texas skies

Occidental’s tax break applications include new details about its carbon removal plans, which some experts see as important to countering climate change. Some environmentalists say the technology is unproven, expensive and only marginally useful at best.

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Inside Climate News
Equipment used to process carbon dioxide, crude oil and water at an Occidental Petroleum Corp enhanced oil recovery project in Hobbs, New Mexico on May 3, 2017.

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