Wyoming’s Long Shot Bet on ‘Clean Coal’ (Part 2)

Wyoming's embrace of Project Bison is one part of a much larger bet on traditional carbon capture utilization and storage technologies (CCUS).

Unlike direct air capture (DAC) technology, which pulls carbon from the atmosphere and can exist anywhere in the world, CCUS systems are placed atop smokestacks at power plants and other industrial emitters, capturing CO2 at the point of emission.