Senator Josh Becker tours first-in-the-nation facility to remove CO2 emissions from the atmosphere

(InMenlo)--On Thursday, November 9, State Senator Josh Becker (D- Menlo Park) (third from right) joined with U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm (center), Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, State Senator Anna Caballero, and other officials to unveil America’s first commercial direct air capture (DAC) carbon dioxide removal facility in Tracy, California. The San Francisco-born startup Heirloom is unveiling a first of its kind facility in Tracy that will use limestone rocks to remove already-emitted CO2 from the atmosphere.

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