And the last time anyone checked between 2010-2019 nearly 90 percent of 45Q credits were claimed by companies who were not in compliance with EPA reporting rules: www.taxnotes.com/research/fed...

Yes, CCUS was invented for Enhanced Oil Recovery decades ago and it's still about more EOR: the so-called One Big Beautfiful Bill Act jacked up the CCUS "utilization" rate (aka EOR) to $85 per ton, for parity with the permanent sequestration credit rate.

Larger point: 45Q is arguably the most perverse energy subsidy from a climate pespective. Govt paying corporations to capture and store CO2, instead of actually reducing emissions, means incentivizing more extraction and combustion of fossil fuels because more emissions means more public $.

Indeed, Sandra. Here is Just Solutions' and Earth Track's brief on 45Q fiscal disaster. CCUS footprint grew from about 15 operations to more than 200 in the pipeline today as the subsidy rose to $85/ton under Biden and industry is now pushing for $120.

justsolutionscollective.org/taxpayer-cos...

Black Americans' enslaved (farmworker) ancestors were themselves the main assets at the beginning of America's racial wealth gap--and in fact much more valuable to their owners than the land they worked itself, also stolen.

which has risen to new record levels in the wake of the Dems neoliberal response to the Great Recession, is critical for understanding the racial resentment that drives many Trump voters. After all...

AND to dismantle existing pollution burdens in predominantly Black and brown communities by codifying cumulative impacts laws. Here's why, and how it is already happening:

justsolutionscollective.org/addressing-p...

can you post a link?

Trump uses "low IQ" as an insult but I don't hear that very much among his followers. The R-word is a specific eugenic slur favored among technological master race types like Musk.

these tariffs may perversely be "good" for clean energy but make no mistake they will only further skew the climate transition upward in the income system; and it won't be good in the next governing moment when "green" is even more of an exclusionary affluent white movement than it used to be.

the share of private output attributable to public investment.

Here's the op-ed and report--old but apparently not dated:

www.nytimes.com/2014/07/07/o...

www.demos.org/sites/defaul...

States can give a jolt to popular support for clean electricity by legislating mandatory progressive rate design rules, including a hard percentage-of-income cap,
3 percent, to reduce energy poverty and shield low-income households from rising systemic costs due to load growth and climate change.

Stop saying things like, "but the transition will pay for itself in the long run." There won't be a transition if it isn't popular and it won't be popular if it isn't affordable at the household level, now.