Montana State University’s Energy Research Institute part of $79 million study on storing greenhouse gases emissions underground

Lee Spangler holds up a small sandstone rock that he says could suck up carbon dioxide like a sponge.
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Rocks like this could play an important role in the fight against climate change, he says. At the same time, the technology could help out the coal industry, one of the biggest emitters of CO2.

"That’s where you put the CO2, in something that feels like solid rock," said Spangler, a physical chemist who runs Montana State University’s Energy Research Institute http://mtgreen.mus.edu/research.asp in Bozeman.

By KARL PUCKETT • Tribune Staff Writer

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