The fi rst batch of"milestone"winners in Elon Musk's $100 million XPrize for carbon removal were announced Friday,granting $1 million each to 15 companies with innovative solutions for removing climate-warming gases from the atmosphere.The awards,announced on Earth Day,recognize the progress these companies have made to date and will support their continued work to scale their technologies,XPrize said in a statement.XPrize says its competition is"the largest incentive prize in history"and has already prompted"hundreds"of groups to advance a wide range of carbon-removal solutions,including direct air capture,biochar,agricultural solutions,organic and inorganic ocean solutions,among others.
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