Tag: carbon sequestration

Drilling for Carbon-Storing Rocks in Suburban New York

by | 9.9.2011 at 1:32pm
Newark Basin sample

Under the shopping malls and highways of suburbia, there might one day be a partial fix for global warming. Since August, engineers have been drilling just west of the Tappan Zee Bridge to collect samples of rock from the Newark Basin, an ancient rock formation stretching beneath New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. As they [...]