Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Funds Removing Carbon Dioxide From the Air

If the driver of climate change is too much carbon dioxide, then one solution is to remove that gas from the air. The $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill passed by the Senate on Aug. 10 includes massive investments in direct air capture technologies to do just that.

These technologies have elicited interest from the private sector and other governments as well as continued skepticism from some quarters.

Alongside $2.5 billion to develop commercial carbon sequestration and transportation, as well as billions more in related spending, the bill allocates $3.5 billion from 2022 through 2026 to...