California’s First Carbon Capture Project Is Up and Running. Environmentalists Are Still Trying To Stop It.

As the state drafts pipeline rules for projects injecting CO2 underground, environmental groups are pressing for a more thorough assessment of the newly launched operation.By Emma Foehringer Merchant California Resources Corporation, the state’s largest oil company, passed a long-targeted milestone in May: It had finally taken carbon dioxide that would otherwise warm the atmosphere and injected it deep underneath its own oil field. It’s the first such project to become operational in California. This week, the state finalized regulations that could support many more.