Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
Illinois
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Regional Reporter,
The first commercial carbon sequestration plant in the U.S. has a big problem. It leaks
If CCS operations leak, they can pose significant risks to water resources. That’s because pressurized CO2 stored underground can escape or propel brine trapped in the saline reservoirs typically used for permanent storage.
In the Midwest, a trillion cicada will soon emerge
Two broods of the noisy insect are expected to emerge simultaneously and for the first time in more than a decade in Illinois — an event that hasn't happened in more than two centuries.