Amid battle over proposed carbon pipelines in Illinois and other states, lawmakers call for federal moratorium – Chicago Tribune*

Workers on a platform at a Navigator CO2 drilling site on May 18, 2023, in rural Nokomis. In the spring, Navigator started drilling a monitoring well for a proposed underground carbon dioxide storage complex.“New pipeline infrastructure will invariably put more communities in danger given the complexity of transporting CO2 thousands of miles with what could create dozens of points of entry and exit for CO2,” said the letter to President Joe Biden, an effort led by Rep. Jesús “Chuy” Garcia of Illinois and Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, with co-signers including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

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