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Football is America’s most popular sport, reigning supreme in households around the world for the last five decades. Every Fall when Football season is in full swing, millions of fans flock to stadiums like SoFi Stadium and gather around TVs to watch their favorite players and teams in action.
But did you know that energy has a long and intertwined connection to football? From the uniforms and equipment to the stadiums and tailgates, energy plays a big part in shaping the game we love. That’s why we are partnering with the Los Angeles Rams on their journey to do their part in helping decarbonize America’s favorite sport.
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California Resources Corporation (CRC) and the Los Angeles Rams have teamed up for “Football Without the Footprint,” a carbon management initiative that will allow the Rams to reduce and offset carbon emissions from the team’s operations in coming years. This partnership establishes CRC as the team’s official carbon management partner and inaugurates the Rams as the first NFL team in California to agree to purchase locally sourced carbon credits to offset their carbon footprint.
Supporting the local community has long been thecornerstone of the Rams’ mission and vision, and the organization proactively designed sustainable facilities and operations to limit local emissions. The "Football Without the Footprint" initiative enables the Rams to take their mission even further.
Through this partnership, the Rams will have the opportunity to directly reduce the team’s carbon emissions by purchasing locally produced hydrocarbons such as responsibly sourced gas (RSG) produced from CRC’s Los Angeles Basin operations.
For the emissions that they cannot reduce directly, the Rams will have the opportunity to offset their residual emissions by purchasing locally sourced carbon credits from CTV. Carbon credits delivered to the Rams are expected to come from a variety of sources, including future CTV projects that offer flexible solutions to help the Rams on their decarbonization journey.
Carbon management refers to a variety of technologies and processes used to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. CRC’s carbon management business, Carbon TerraVault (CTV) is developing carbon capture and storage (CCS) and direct air capture plus storage (DAC+S) projects that will inject CO2 captured from industrial sources into depleted underground reservoirs for permanent storage.
A carbon credit is a tradable certificate that signifies one metric ton of CO2 has been removed or avoided through certified carbon projects. Companies purchase carbon credits to offset their own emissions and help meet their carbon neutrality goals, and that carbon finance flows back to the project to support the emission reduction activity. Carbon credits are certified by either governments or independent certification bodies.
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As part of “Football Without the Footprint,” CRC and the Rams will work together to uplift local communities by investing in initiatives such as garden builds, beautification projects, and Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) academies that will integrate carbon management practices and education. This partnership enables CRC and the Rams to educate fans and local communities about the importance of carbon management technologies and meeting California’s energy needs with local, responsibly sourced energy rather than importing energy from other states or foreign countries that have inferior safety, labor, human rights, and environmental standards.