Scientists target East Coast U.S. rocks for carbon dioxide storage

Scientists say buried volcanic rocks along the heavily populated coasts of New York, New Jersey and New England, as well as further south, might be ideal reservoirs to lock away carbon dioxide emitted by power plants and other industrial sources. A new study outlines formations on land as well as offshore where the best potential sites may lie. Power plants might pipe emissions under the seabed. The idea is controversial because of fears that CO2 might leak.

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