carbon storage

The University of Wyoming has received a $9.77 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project that would determine the feasibility of creating a commercial-scale geological storage complex for carbon dioxide in Wyoming.

Over the past two years, the federal stimulus program paid the owner of a Colorado-based energy company and the company’s Wyoming representative, son of US Sen. Mike Enzi, more than $1 million in salaries and benefits for a Department of Energy carbon storage study in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, according to records obtained by WyoFile under the Freedom of Information Act.