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Port Angeles pilot tests ocean-based carbon removal at Project MACOMA

Clallam County Board of Commissioners and Port of Port Angeles Commission (joint meeting) · October 27, 2025
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EV Carbon presented Project MACOMA, a small, fully permitted pilot at Terminal 7 in Port Angeles that the company says aims to remove acid from seawater and enable additional ocean uptake of carbon dioxide.

EV Carbon presented Project MACOMA, a small, fully permitted pilot at Terminal 7 in Port Angeles that the company says aims to remove acid from seawater and enable additional ocean uptake of carbon dioxide.

Kyla Westfall, vice president of external affairs for EV Carbon, described the company’s dual mission of reducing atmospheric CO2 and addressing coastal acidification, and told the joint meeting the pilot is “privately funded.” She said the technology removes acid from seawater, which EV Carbon then neutralizes by mixing the acidic stream with alkaline minerals (identified in the presentation as bursite) so the acidity does not return to the ocean.

The company cited laboratory and field research it has…

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