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September 3, 2025
BY Clean Refineries, Inc.
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North Dakota’s Department of Agriculture is inviting grant proposals from ethanol producers under its Low Carbon Fuels Program, aiming to fund capital projects that cut carbon intensity.
Deep Sky, in partnership with Quebec-based Skyrenu, has completed North America’s first permanent underground storage of CO₂ captured directly from the atmosphere, a full carbon removal loop achieved at Deep Sky Alpha in Innisfail, Alberta.
A University of Houston team led by Professor Mim Rahimi has developed a membraneless electrochemical amine regeneration process that achieves over 90% CO₂ removal at roughly $70 per ton, significantly reducing both costs and energy use.
ION Clean Energy has unveiled ICE Blocks™, their new line of self-contained, modular carbon capture units tailored for smaller post-combustion emission sources like natural gas facilities and other hard-to-abate flue gas emitters. The units, designed in partnership with Modular Plant Solutions, are quickly deployable, scalable, and transportable via road, rail, or sea.
Equinor, Shell, and TotalEnergies have stored the first CO₂ volumes at Norway’s Northern Lights CCS project, marking the world’s first operational open-access CO₂ transport and storage facility. Phase 1 capacity of 1.5 million tonnes per year is fully booked, with Phase 2 set to expand to 5 million tonnes annually.