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Emissions from the plant have trended down sharply in recent years, plummeting from 6 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2011 to 1.2 million in 2023, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s tracking tool.
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Jeremy Cox, Baltimore Sun, 23 Apr. 2025
Mati Carbon has an ambitious goal: remove 100 million metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere by 2040—and help 100 million farmers in the Global South along the way.
—Simmone Shah, Time, 23 Apr. 2025
As planned, the project’s first phase would receive about 2.8 billion cubic feet per day of fossil gas, delivered by hundreds of miles of new pipelines, and process 15 million metric tons per year of the super-chilled fossil gas — doubled eventually by a second phase of equal scale.
—Joel Reynolds, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2025
The increasing interest in hydrogen technology stems from its substantial potential to reduce emissions, with each Class 8 truck capable of eliminating over 400 metric tons of CO2 annually.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2025
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Jeremy Cox, Baltimore Sun, 23 Apr. 2025
Mati Carbon has an ambitious goal: remove 100 million metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere by 2040—and help 100 million farmers in the Global South along the way.
—Simmone Shah, Time, 23 Apr. 2025
As planned, the project’s first phase would receive about 2.8 billion cubic feet per day of fossil gas, delivered by hundreds of miles of new pipelines, and process 15 million metric tons per year of the super-chilled fossil gas — doubled eventually by a second phase of equal scale.
—Joel Reynolds, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2025
The increasing interest in hydrogen technology stems from its substantial potential to reduce emissions, with each Class 8 truck capable of eliminating over 400 metric tons of CO2 annually.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2025
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“Metric ton.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metric%20ton. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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