$32 million federal grand to study carbon capture hub near Pueblo, Colorado

 

The Federal government just awarded $32 million to the Colorado School of Mines to develop a carbon sequestration hub near Pueblo.

The region near Pueblo has large carbon emissions from two power plants and cement kiln. The Department of Energy grant will be used by the School of Mines and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in drilling test sites for a carbon sink in the Lyons Sandstone formation thousands of feet beneath Pueblo County reported The Colorado Sun.

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