First large-scale US CCS plant reaches capture milestone

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Illinois Basin-Decatur Project has stored 317,000 metric tons of CO2 from an adjacent ethanol plant in an underground reservoir

The first demonstration-scale carbon capture and storage (CS) plant in the US has successfully injected 317,000 metric tons of CO2 into a subterranean reservoir during its first year of operation. Led...

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