Pennsylvania wants to allow power companies to capture carbon dioxide emissions and put them into the ground.

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5/26/09

Regional
Chapter 19

In Pennsylvania, lawmakers want to create a tower that will take carbon dioxide emissions out of utilities and dispose of them in the ground. Carbon capture and sequestration would take a stream of compressed carbon dioxide directly from electric utilities and pump it underground into depleted oil fields, shale formations and aquifers thousands of feet below ground. There, hopefully the gas will be permanently stored. Pennsylvania could store at least 100 years worth of the state's current emissions. Some environmental groups and companies say that this technology is decades from actually being possible and will require a lot of money and research. With their current plan, Pennsylvania says that this can all occur by 2015.

This sounds like a great idea that has very little harmful side effects. If these carbon towers are created, it can really help our fight against global warming. Hopefully, many countries around the world will adopt this new technology and the world can severely lower their carbon emissions. The only bad thing about this is that it could cost a lot of money and could cause earthquakes or poison the water supply. I really like this idea and I think Pennsylvania should really pursue this new technology.

sequestration- To set apart; segregate.