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Trump administration cancels billions for chemical decarbonization


DOE offices focused on reducing carbon emissions also face major budget cuts

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is canceling billions of dollars in awards intended to reduce industrial carbon emissions, and it is proposing major cuts to programs focused on decarbonization. Sublime finished negotiations for the DOE award in December and on May 22 announced that Microsoft had agreed to buy 600,000 metric tons of low-carbon cement from its planned facility. “Given our project's strong alignment with President Trump's priority to increase US production of critical minerals, we believe this was a misunderstanding,” Liza Darwin, who leads Brimstone’s communications, says about the cancellation.

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