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Jared Huffman: I think you are taking great liberties with the term 'net zero' when you are talking about burning natural gas and then…

On the recordNovember 17, 2021
I think you are taking great liberties with the term 'net zero' when you are talking about burning natural gas and then using the CO2 that you can mostly capture through that process and then just going out and developing more oil to be burned in cars and other fossil fuel uses.
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Jared Huffman
Democratic · California

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Huffman critiques claims of carbon capture technology as a true climate solution.

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