The Montezuma Wetlands drape across 1,800 acres of Solano County, California, where the Sacramento River empties into San Francisco Bay. Once drained and diked for farming and grazing, the marsh has been rehabilitated over the past two decades, and in 2020, tidal waters returned for the first time in a century. … But just as the ecosystem is on the mend, another makeover may be coming. A company called Montezuma Carbon wants to send millions of tons of carbon dioxide from Bay Area polluters through a 40-mile pipeline and store it in saline aquifers 2 miles beneath the wetland. … If the project proceeds, it could be the Golden State’s first large-scale, climate-driven carbon capture and storage site.

Other wetlands news:

• Center for Biological Diversity: News release: Lawsuit challenges drilling near Nevada’s Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge​​​