A Carbon Capture Monitoring Well Leaked in Illinois. Most Residents Found Out When the World Did

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When a CO2 well leaks and potentially endangers the public, who is responsible for informing community members?

On Sept. 13, Decatur, Illinois, city councilperson David Horn found out a monitoring well at a carbon capture and storage site in his community was leaking. He did not find out through an internal council meeting, nor an emergency phone call from the city manager or an alert from environmental regulators. He found out like most other people did, through an article in E&E News.

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