Climate technology company CarbonCapture Inc., which develops direct air capture (DAC) systems, has set a goal with carbon storage developer Frontier Carbon Solutions to permanently remove 5 million metric tons/year of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from Wyoming by 2030.

The state was selected for the carbon sequestration project because of the “broad availability of renewable and zero carbon energy sources,” along with a “favorable regulatory and operating environment for carbon storage,” management noted. 

“With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, the proliferation of companies seeking high quality carbon removal credits and a disruptive low cost technology, we now have the ingredients needed to scale DAC to megaton levels by the end of this decade,” said...