Shovels and an excavator are visible at the groundbreaking celebration for the Stratos direct air capture plant in West Texas on April 28. Construction began on the site in late 2022, and it's slated to begin operations in 2025. Camila Domonoske/NPR hide caption
Clockwise from top left: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Vivek Ramaswamy and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Anna Moneymaker, Brandon Bell, Win McNamee, Michael M. Santiago, Robyn Beck/AFP (2), Ethan Miller/Getty Images hide caption
Global Thermostat's pilot plant for direct air carbon capture, on April 4, 2023, in Brighton, Colorado. The company is also receiving funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to build a plant with 1,000 times the capacity of this demonstration plant. Hart Van Denburg/CPR News/Hart Van Denburg/CPR News hide caption
Jason Salfi, left, and Dr. David Erickson, right, of Dimensional Energy, are finalists in the Carbon XPrize. They stand in front of the Dry Fork Station coal-fired power plant in Gillette, Wyo., where the competition is located. Cooper McKim/Wyoming Public Radio hide caption
Coal is piled up at the Gallatin Fossil Plant in Gallatin, Tenn. Mark Humphrey/AP hide caption
At Kemper, Mississippi Power has built an entirely new coal plant from the ground up. But the plant, which uses carbon capture technology, has experienced missed deadlines, cost overruns and other problems. Courtesy of Mississippi Power hide caption
Shell's Jack Pine Mine near Fort MacKay, Alberta. The largest trucks, called "heavy haulers," can hold 400 tons of oil sands material. It takes 2 tons to produce one barrel of oil. Jeff Brady/NPR hide caption