Amazon wants to give hundreds of millions of dollars to oil companies for carbon removal

The Verge reports that Amazon has recently made a commitment to 1PointFive, a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum, to purchase 250,000 metric tons of atmospheric carbon removal over the next decade:

1PointFive, the subsidiary of Occidental, has plans to build massive industrial facilities, called direct air capture (DAC) plants, in Texas that are supposed to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. — Read the rest