{"id":65216,"date":"2025-10-08T09:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/65216\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T09:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:38:07","slug":"climate-crisis-greenhushing-is-whisper-it-coming-for-carbon-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/65216\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Crisis: Greenhushing Is (Whisper It) Coming for Carbon Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Greenhushing, in which companies quietly get on with the task of decarbonizing without boasting about it, was once thought to be a way of avoiding accusations of greenwashing and complying with environmental-claims regulations. Now, it seems like it\u2019s more to avoid rocking the boat with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2025-10-02\/brazil-cop30-climate-deniers-are-increasingly-hiding-in-plain-sight?srnd=undefined&amp;sref=r4AzvICB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">climate-skeptic politicians<\/a> and consumers. A landscape where climate action can only be discussed sotto voce adds both a challenge and a potential direction for the important, but nascent, carbon-removal industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latitudemedia.com\/news\/is-the-us-sabotaging-the-250-billion-carbon-removal-opportunity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">With federal support for climate tech disappearing in the US<\/a>, project developers are trying to find a viable path forward. For CarbonCapture Inc. subsidiary True North Carbon, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-02\/albertan-carbon-capture-project-was-originally-planned-for-arizona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">meant moving its direct-air capture (DAC) plant to Canada<\/a> from the US. For others, it means choosing to focus on parts of the climate puzzle that aren\u2019t exclusively about CO2. In other words, they\u2019re greenhushing themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greenhushing, in which companies quietly get on with the task of decarbonizing without boasting about it, was once&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[6689,179,275,390,52830,273,866,1619,111,139,69,640,147,14920,2025,9880],"class_list":{"0":"post-65216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-climate-change","12":"tag-decentralized-autonomous-organizations","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-federal-reserve","15":"tag-london","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-regulation","20":"tag-science","21":"tag-texas","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-view"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}