Underground project key to making fuels more Earth-friendly

One Web wag, who evidently has never been to East Central Illinois, had it happening in the Mount Simon mountain range, which drew an incredulous chuckle from Rob Finley as he talked about it.

But if a project headed by the Illinois State Geological Survey to trap a million tons of carbon dioxide deep in the Earth lacks actual mountains, it might make up for it in some of the mountainlike numbers involved.

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