CDR library

🏛️ Today is one of those days where it is hard to find the motivation to keep going: the Trump Administration - expectedly - moved to eliminate the EPA’s 2009 "Endangerment Finding” which de facto created the legal basis for a lot of climate policy in the U.S. 🪓 Under the guise of “deregulation”, this is the largest and likely most impactful attack on climate science by this U.S. administration to date. ❌ The EPA will no longer be able to effectively regulate the six major

📊 Lots has been written about this topic lately. Personally, I like to look at the data–not the gossip. That’s why I was so excited when I saw @cdr.fyi’s incredibly timely “Direct Air Capture Market Snapshot H1 2025” come out yesterday. 😬 On the surface, it doesn’t look good: of 167 DAC companies (as per @grant faber’s latest list - see comments), only 31 have made a sale, and only 2 (!) have delivered any CDR. 🤏 Almost 2.5Mt of DAC credits have been sold to date - of whic

🇺🇸 It looks like the 45Q tax credit, which has been central to the scale up of the CDR industry in the U.S., particularly DACCS, is...