Last Update: 09/22/2026 at 11:33 PM EST

Japan-Malaysia Carbon Storage Push

Coverage from Oil Change International, Oskaloosa Herald, and others

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Japan and Malaysia are advancing a cross-border carbon capture and storage pathway that would move captured industrial CO2 offshore to Malaysian geological formations, while critics question its climate value, costs, and governance.

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05/22/2026

The story is largely stable, but the framing has sharpened around offshore storage governance and the role of earlier Japanese CCS spending as background evidence of a longer policy push. The updated version also slightly broadens the host-country context to Malaysia's offshore geological formations and emphasizes cost and accountability concerns more explicitly.

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Oil Change International / Sybre Waaijer
10/14/2025 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
Oskaloosa Herald / ANTON L. DELGADO - Associated Press
11/25/2025 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
AP News
2/17/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
The Independent
2/17/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General