The IRA is a huge boost for CCS - but rockets need firing on all cylinders to deliver at scale

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Aniruddha Sharma, chair and CEO of UK CCS developer Carbon Clean, assesses the positives and pitfalls of the USA's flagship clean tech legislation for carbon capture worldwide

A year on from the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law by President Biden, its reverberations continue to be felt on a seismic scale. For carbon capture and storage (CCS) development,...

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