Montana's $85m carbon capture pilot gets go-ahead

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Researchers aim to inject one million tons of CO2 into a 700 square mile formation a mile underground

An $85m pilot project to inject one million tons of CO2 into a dome almost a mile beneath the earth's surface was given the go-ahead by the US government this week. The Big Sky Sequestration project...

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