The US Senate has passed legislation that would expedite permitting of CO2 pipelines and ofer incentives for technology that can capture the greenhouse gas directly from the air. Those measures, part an earlier bill named the USE IT Act, were tucked into a $750bn defense bill the Senate passed on 27 June in an 86-8 vote. The chamber’s push to encourage carbon capture and utilisation marks one of the few points of bipartisanship agreement on climate policy, although its limited scope and funding means it is unlikely to drive major changes in emissions.
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