In the California desert, a new wastewater plant might hold the key to cheap carbon removal

A new process can offset the cost of pulling CO2 from the air by selling other services at an unlikely location—wastewater treatment plants.

On the edge of the Mojave Desert, 60 miles north of Los Angeles, a new water treatment plant will turn wastewater into drinking water. The plant will also test something new: removing CO2 from the atmosphere at little to no cost.