- The Environmental Protection Agency has approved a Texas company’s application to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and inject it underground, becoming the first project in the state to be awarded such a permit.
- Occidental Petroleum Corporation, a Houston-based oil firm, will start storing 500,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide in deep, non-permeable rock formations 4,400 feet underground as soon as this year.
- The facility will be located 20 miles southwest of Odessa.
Read the full news here: Texas oil company, Oxy, to begin sucking carbon out of air | The Texas Tribune