For more than two decades, carbon capture and storage has been promoted as a promising solution to climate change. But an investigation by ProPublica and Drilled reveals how an influential 2005 United Nations scientific report helped establish confidence in the technology despite limited evidence, while fossil fuel…

A Kern County judge ruled that approval of California’s first operating carbon capture and storage project — a technology the state is counting on to meet its climate goals — violated state environmental law and must be set aside. Judge Marcos Camacho found that environmental review of California Resources Corp.’s…