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Texas Opens More Coastal Waters for Carbon Dioxide Injection Wells

Inside Climate News · By Dylan Baddour · last updated
The Gulf Coast is poised to be a major hub for underground disposal of greenhouse gas to mitigate climate change, but questions remain over who will fund it long-term.

By Dylan Baddour

Texas has opened more than a million acres of offshore, state-owned waters for proposals from companies to inject greenhouse gas underground for permanent disposal as a means to mitigate climate change.