"Oil Company's Ambitious Plan: Extracting Carbon from the Sky While Continuing Oil Production"

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"Oil Company's Ambitious Plan: Extracting Carbon from the Sky While Continuing Oil Production"
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Occidental Petroleum, an American oil company, is investing in direct air capture technology to suck carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and inject it underground. The company plans to build large-scale plants to capture and store carbon, with the goal of offsetting its own emissions and potentially extracting more oil. While some see this as a positive step towards combating climate change, others argue that the focus should be on reducing emissions rather than relying on carbon removal technology.

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