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Adkins Energy’s Ethanol and Biodiesel production facility in Lena, Illinois. Adkins, although not on a CO2 pipeline, is seeking federal carbon sequestration tax credits using a technology that would capture CO2 and combine it with hydrogen to make green methanol.

Tax credits jump start Midwest carbon capture projects — but the cost will be in the billions

In an effort to reach zero carbon emissions by 2050, the Biden administration is offering more tax credits for carbon capture sequestration and utilization. The program once expected to cost $3.2 billion now could exceed $100 billion.

Lee and Karen Brocklesby stand on their farm in Christian County, Illinois. Karen has become a vocal opponent of plans to inject CO2 from ethanol plants underground in Illinois.

Energy & Environment

Pipelines that would store CO2 beneath Midwest states make some landowners nervous

Sarah Nardi

Three companies are proposing pipelines across the Midwest that would carry carbon dioxide captured from ethanol plants to underground sequestration sites. The plan is to inject the CO2 deep into rock formations under Illinois and North Dakota, but some landowners are pushing back.

Beer brewers are worried that a shortage of the gas that puts the suds in your beer could force production cuts and price hikes.

Food & Drink

Your beer needs carbon dioxide, but the price skyrocketed over the summer

Bill Chappell

The gas brings the bubbles to your beer. But brewers now face a carbon dioxide shortage — and the risk of production cuts and price hikes.

Sandra Ósk Snæbjörnsdóttir (left) and Kári Helgason at the injection well indoors. (Karyn Miller-Medzon/Here & Now)

Energy & Environment

Could turning carbon dioxide into rock help solve the climate crisis?

Scientists in Iceland are using a new technology to capture carbon emissions and inject them into basalt deposits.

Energy & Environment

Carbon Is A New Cash Crop For Some Farmers

Katie Peikes

There’s been a lot of hype around how farmers can make money from selling the carbon their plants naturally remove from the air, but there are still…

Steam rises from the stacks of the coal-fired Jim Bridger Power Plant outside Point of the Rocks, Wyo., in March 2014.

Technology

Using Technology To Keep Carbon Emissions In Check

Renewable energy is only one of the steps toward achieving the goals set by the Paris climate deal. We take a trip around North America to explore other ways of keeping carbon out of the atmosphere.