Carbon capture and sequestration (Glossary)

technologies that can significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions from new and existing coal and gas-fired power plants, industrial processes and other stationary sources of carbon dioxide. It is a three-step process that involves capturing carbon dioxide from power plants or industrial sources; transport of captured and compressed carbon dioxide (usually through pipelines); and underground injection and geological sequestration or permanent storage of that carbon dioxide in rock formations that contain tiny openings or pores that capture and retain the carbon dioxide.

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