Putting a lid on global warming

Utah on forefront of 'CO 2 sequestration' project

By Brian Maffly
and Judy Fahys
The Salt Lake Tribune



The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) plans to spend $67 million over the next
decade on a technology solution for climate change that will be tested in
Utah. Plans call for pumping carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas blamed for
global warming, into mile-deep rock formations under Carbon County for
long-term underground storage. Leading the sequestration project is
engineering professor Brian McPherson, who was recruited last year to work
for the Utah Research, Science and Technology (USTAR) initiative, the new
public-private venture to develop commercial applications for technologies
at Utah's two major state universities.

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