Energy Department Project Captures and Stores One Million Metric Tons of Carbon

Project Achieves Major Milestone by Successfully Injecting Carbon into Saline Formation

WASHINGTON —(ENEWSPF)–January 8, 2015.  As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, the Department of Energy announced today that its Illinois Basin-Decatur Project successfully captured and stored one million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and injected it into a deep saline formation. The project is part of the development phase of the Department’s Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships initiative, which is helping…