Carbon Sequestration

As the country tries to meet its climate goals, tackling emissions from farming will be key. Biochar, one climate-smart agriculture strategy, sequesters carbon while recycling agricultural waste and improving soil.

In an effort to reach zero carbon emissions by 2050, the Biden administration is offering more tax credits for carbon capture sequestration and utilization. The program once expected to cost $3.2 billion now could exceed $100 billion.

As Illinois considers ways to achieve its goal of relying entirely on clean energy by 2050, one technology that has courted controversy is carbon capture.

Agriculture companies are increasingly paying farmers to capture carbon. But some say the newly budding carbon marketplace isn’t enough to fight climate change.

The city gets more trees, and companies are able to offset their carbon use.

The Metro East coal-fired power plant must cut emissions 45% by 2035 and eliminate them completely by 2045 if it wants to remain open.

The study will try to quantify how much carbon certain farming practices will keep in the soil and out of the atmosphere.

An increasing number of farmers believe in climate change and that it will negatively affect them. But as a group they don't think humans are to blame.

With mounting concern over climate change, scientists around the world are looking for ways to keep carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.A team of…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 12, 2009 - For residents of the Illinois town of Mattoon, it's back to the FutureGen.The…