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Carbon-capture pipelines offer climate aid; activists skeptical Some say such projects only prolong our dependence on fossil fuels By Stephen Groves, Associated Press Published: July 24, 2021, 4:34pm Share: SIOUX FALLS, S.D. Two companies seeking to build thousands of miles of pipeline across the Midwest are promising the effort will aid rather than hinder the fight against climate change, though some environmental groups remain skeptical. The pipelines would stretch from North Dakota to Illinois, potentially transforming the Corn Belt into one of the world’s largest corridors for a technology called carbon capture and storage. Environmental activists and landowners have hindered other proposed pipelines in the region that pump oil, carrying carbon that was buried in the earth to engines or plants where it is burned and emitted. The new projects would essentially do the opposite by capturing carbon dioxide at ethanol refineries and transporting it to sites w

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