内容摘要：Details about SpaceX employees deployed to work on the project are unclear, but three of its software developers appeared on a Trump administration list of government workers given “ethics waivers” to do work that could benefit Musk’s company.

Details about SpaceX employees deployed to work on the project are unclear, but three of its software developers appeared on a Trump administration list of government workers given “ethics waivers” to do work that could benefit Musk’s company.

Geological Survey, Little Rock, Ark. (19,005 square feet)United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Littleton, Colo. (1,250 square feet)

Natural Resources Conservation Service, Logan, Utah (7,500 square feet)Mine Safety Health Administration, Longview, Texas (2,400 square feet)Securities and Exchange Commission, Los Angeles, Calif. (57,903 square feet)

Departmental Management (IG), Louisville, Ky. (2,463 square feet)Geological Survey, Louisville, Ky. (21,950 square feet)

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Madison, Wis. (2,477 square feet)

Food and Drug Administration, Madison, Wis. (2,975 square feet)A diagram illustrating a project to add sodium hydroxide to the ocean is displayed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, in Hyannis, Mass. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

“It’s like the Wild West. Everybody is on the bandwagon, everybody wants to do something,” said Adina Paytan, who teaches earth and ocean science at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Planetary, like most of the ocean startups, is financing its work by selling carbon credits — or tokens representing one metric ton of carbon dioxide removed from the air. Largely unregulated and

, carbon credits have become popular this century as a way for companies to purchase offsets rather than reduce emissions themselves. Most credits are priced at several hundred dollars apiece.The industry sold more than 340,000 marine carbon credits last year, up from just 2,000 credits four years ago, according to the tracking site CDR.fyi. But that amount of carbon removal is a tiny fraction of what scientists say will be required to keep the planet livable for centuries to come.