A Different Kind of Pipeline Project Scrambles Midwest Politics

Photo caption: Corn brought by local farmers is stored at the Dakota Ethanol plant in Wentworth, S.D., on Dec. 19, 2022. […] Photo credit: Alyssa Schukar / The New York Times. Article by Mitch Smith and Alyssa Schukar. Yahoo! News – March 20, 2023. Original article published by © The New York Times Company.

HARTFORD, S.D. — For more than a decade, the Midwest was the site of bitter clashes over plans for thousand-mile pipelines meant to carry crude oil beneath cornfields and cattle ranches. Now high-dollar pipeline fights are happening again, but with a twist. Instead of oil, these projects would carry millions of tons of carbon dioxide from ethanol plants to be injected into underground rock formations rather than dispersed as pollutants in the air. […]

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