Mahomet Aquifer

In the days following the end of the session, Illinois State Senator Dave Koehler of Peoria looked back at the tense spring session.

The Illinois House on Tuesday voted to ban carbon capture near the Mahomet Aquifer in a 91-19 vote. It's already passed the Senate and now goes to the governor.

A bill that bans carbon sequestration over, under or through portions of the Mahomet Aquifer passed out of the Illinois General Assembly on Tuesday.

State senators voted unanimously, 55-0, this week to ban carbon sequestration near the Mahomet Aquifer. That's the sole source of water for nearly 1 million people in the region, including much of McLean County.

After months of community engagement, the Illinois House and Senate are endorsing a bill that would ban carbon sequestration near the Mahomet Aquifer.

An effort is underway in the Illinois legislature to protect water supplies from a new climate technology that still faces many questions about its safety.

An Illinois Senate committee hit pause on a bill to ban carbon sequestration injections near aquifers after more than an hour of debate Wednesday.

The Bloomington City Council has unanimously approved an amendment to city code extending the definition of “loud and raucous noise” to apply to public property.

The McLean County Board unanimously passed a resolution in support of protecting the Mahomet Aquifer, a source of drinking water for many communities in Central Illinois.

So-called "carbon sequestration" takes carbon dioxide produced by industrial processes like ethanol plants, compresses it to a liquid form, pipes it across the Midwest, and injects it deep under bedrock layers in places like Decatur, and potentially McLean County.