--- title: Climate Change: Coalition Supports Carbon Capture Tax Credit description: A rare coalition of energy companies, green groups and trade unions united this month to support a measure before Congress canonical: https://time.com/4662190/climate-change-green-fossil-fuel-companies-carbon/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-07T15:49:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:10:32.364Z article:section: Science og:title: This Climate Change Measure Has Fossil Fuel Companies and Green Groups Working Together og:description: Some policymakers believe carbon capture could be key to addressing climate change og:url: https://time.com/4662190/climate-change-green-fossil-fuel-companies-carbon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt11f0229fb6569534/6988b90ecd1bba803c703e2a/carbon-capture-climate-change.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: carbon capture climate change og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Climate Change Measure Has Fossil Fuel Companies and Green Groups Working Together twitter:description: Some policymakers believe carbon capture could be key to addressing climate change twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt11f0229fb6569534/6988b90ecd1bba803c703e2a/carbon-capture-climate-change.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Climate Change Measure Has Fossil Fuel Companies and Green Groups Working Together > Sponsored content. 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Cranes stand at the construction site for Southern Co.'s Kemper County power plant near Meridian, Mississippi, U.S., on Feb. 25, 2014. Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Feb 7, 2017 3:49 PM UTC A rare coalition of energy companies, green groups and trade unions united this month to support a measure before Congress that helps fight greenhouse gas emissions by providing a tax credit for [capturing and storing carbon dioxide](http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1954176%5F1954175,00.html?iid=sr-link4). The provision — known as the Section 45Q tax credit — grants a tax incentive to energy and industrial companies that store carbon dioxide through a set of technologies commonly known as carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), rather than releasing the pollutant into the atmosphere. Support for a measure strengthening the tax credit came in the form of a [letter](http://neori.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Feb-2017-Coalition-Letter-.pdf) sent last week to members of Congress. Representatives of environmental groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council, unions like the AFL-CIO and companies like Arch Coal, the country’s second largest coal producer, signed the letter. **Read More:** [Scientists Accidentally Discover Method to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Ethanol](http://time.com/4536708/carbon-dioxide-ethanol/) CCS “represents an essential component of our nation’s strategy for achieving greenhouse gas emissions reductions,” the letter says. “This opportunity represents a genuine win-win for our nation’s economy and environment.” Many environmental groups and energy companies have high hopes that CCS can play a game-changing role in the energy sector, as policies increasingly demand reductions in global warming-causing carbon dioxide emissions. The CCS [process](https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ccs/) typically involves pipelines that transport carbon dioxide away from a power plant or another industrial site to an injection well that dumps the pollutant thousands of feet underground, where it cannot enter the atmosphere. Other CCS projects actually use the gas for other purposes like [improved oil recovery](https://energy.gov/fe/fy-2014-research-projects-co2-storage-enhanced-oil-recovery). **Read More:** [Researchers Turn CO2 Into Stone in Climate Change Breakthrough](http://time.com/4364038/co2-stone-climate-change/?iid=sr-link8) Many environmental policymakers say that widespread adoption of CCS in the coming decades may be key to stopping the most devastating effects of climate change. The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has already exceeded 400 parts per million, a level some scientists have described as unsustainable. Others remain deeply skeptical of the technology because a few high-profile [projects](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/05/science/kemper-coal-mississippi.html?%5Fr=0) failed to deliver as promised. The legislative push for CCS is a renewed fight after a measure bolstering the tax credit did not receive a floor vote last year, but enjoyed broad support from Republicans and Democrats. (The coalition also sent a letter with close to identical language last year.) “When utilities, coal companies, and environmental groups come together to support your bill,” Senator Heidi Heitkamp, a North Dakota Democrat, said last year in a [statement](http://www.heitkamp.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2016/7/heitkamp-whitehouse-introduce-bill-to-support-carbon-capture-utilization-storage), “you know you’re onto something that could work.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4662190/climate-change-green-fossil-fuel-companies-carbon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4662190/climate-change-green-fossil-fuel-companies-carbon/"},"headline":"This Climate Change Measure Has Fossil Fuel Companies and Green Groups Working Together","datePublished":"2017-02-07T15:49:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:10:32.364Z","description":"Some policymakers believe carbon capture could be key to addressing climate change","url":"https://time.com/4662190/climate-change-green-fossil-fuel-companies-carbon/","keywords":["energy","Environment","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt11f0229fb6569534/6988b90ecd1bba803c703e2a/carbon-capture-climate-change.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt11f0229fb6569534/6988b90ecd1bba803c703e2a/carbon-capture-climate-change.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"carbon capture climate change","caption":"carbon capture climate change","creditText":"Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/energy/","name":"energy"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4662190/climate-change-green-fossil-fuel-companies-carbon/","name":"This Climate Change Measure Has Fossil Fuel Companies and Green Groups Working Together"}}]}] ```