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$17.9 million grant to MSU and cooperators addresses climate change

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $17.9 million to a multistate partnership headed by Montana State University http://www.montana.edu/ to further develop ways of capturing and storing greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, in underground geological formations, cropland and forest land.

The regional coalition, called the Big Sky Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership http://www.bigskyco2.org/ , includes public and private sector research institutions, businesses and state agencies. It is part of a national network of such partnerships that is the backbone of the United States’ sequestration research.

MSU economist Susan Capalbo is director of the partnership, which includes scientists from Wyoming, South Dakota, Idaho, Oregon and Washington, tribal nations and international collaborators in Norway, India and the Netherlands.

"This work capitalizes on MSU’s investments in energy research and in the high-speed Lariat telecommunications networks. We couldn’t take the lead in this effort without this infrastructure," Capalbo said.

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