Wyoming’s $49 Million Carbon-Capture Pilot Axed—State Re-examines Its Mandate

GILLETTE, Wyo.—A flagship $49.2 million carbon-capture pilot at Basin Electric’s Dry Fork Station is dead after the U.S. Department of Energy stripped federal funding last week, yanking support for 24 demonstration projects nationwide. TDA Research’s membrane-and-sorbent retrofit was supposed to prove coal could meet “net-zero” pledges without shutterin…