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.
Americans criticizing China for producing the world’s products and ignoring their efforts to transition to clean energy, meanwhile the US funds tunnels for cars and drop giant ice cubes into the oceans to cool it off
Builds all of their factories there, then gets those goods shipped back to them, THEN have the nerve to blame pollution on China.