I didn't read the article but I did scan it and I saw this...
Oil and gas companies lobbied for the direct air capture money to be included in the law, arguing that the world could continue to burn fossil fuels if it had a way to clean up their planet-warming pollution.
I would like 1.2 billion dollars to investigate the effect of slaughtering exxon executives on the emission of greenhouse gasses. Our thesis is that if we kill enough exxon executives the rate of greenhouse gas emission will slow.
Don't forget the shareholders too.