Time magazine selected Elon Musk as its "person of the year" in 2021.
But Musk won't attend Time's event in New York City on Wednesday to fete the winners of that groundbreaking contest.
The $50 million grand prize will go to Mati Carbon, a Houston-based startup that works with crushed rocks and subsistence farmers to soak up climate pollution.
Critics say Musk has gone from one of the carbon removal industry's earliest supporters to perhaps its biggest threat.
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Some of the biggest public companies in the United States, including Wal-Mart, Walt Disney Co., Microsoft, have adopted carbon pollution pricing strategies.