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An employee poses with a pipe used to carrying liquid CO2 on September 08, 2008 at the "Schwarze Pumpe" ("Black Pump") power station run by Europe's biggest power company Vattenfall in Werder near Berlin. In a similar manner, Summit Carbon Solutions, a spinoff of an Iowa-based agricultural company, recently announced it is developing a $2 billion pipeline project that will carry carbon dioxide captured from ethanol refineries scattered across the Midwest to a site in North Dakota where it will be pumped thousands of feet underground. (MICHAEL URBAN/DDP/AFP via Getty Images)

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