The United States Department of Energy on Oct. 29 closed on a $1.5 billion loan to support Indiana's first fertilizer plant in West Terre Haute.

The Wabash Valley Resources coal-powered ammonia fertilizer plant will repurpose old infrastructure from a Duke coal unit that has been sitting idle near the banks of the Wabash River since 2016. And despite the new fertilizer plant's reliance on fossil fuels, it will produce no emissions, said the company's vice president of external affairs Greg Zoeller.

This is possible through a process called carbon capture and sequestration . Instead of pumping carbon dioxide gas into the air, the plant will liquefy the compound. Then Wabash Valley Resources plans to inject the liquid carbon dioxide — almost 1.65 million tons annually — into rock for

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