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How one plant pulls carbon dioxide out of the air and puts it into concrete

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A direct-air-capture plant in Tracy, California, pulls up to 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide directly out of the air each year. The company that built it says the removed carbon will be permanently sequestered inside concrete.

As part of Here & Now's climate series Reverse Course, Peter O'Dowd went to a concrete plant in San Jose to understand how it works.

This segment aired on July 23, 2024.

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Peter O'Dowd Senior Editor, Here & Now

Peter O’Dowd has a hand in most parts of Here & Now — producing and overseeing segments, reporting stories and occasionally filling in as host. He came to Boston from KJZZ in Phoenix.

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