If the fossil fuel industry has its way and the U.S. builds 65,000 miles of new CO2 pipeline with public money in the next few years, perpetual attention to detail will be required to avoid catastrophic leaks of deadly CO2. Can all the risks of such a dangerous system be controlled for decades without mass-casualty failures? After fossil fuels are finished, who will remove those 65,000 miles of pipeline?

Building new CO2 pipelines is expensive and contentious. Therefore, the fossil fuel industry would like to use existing natural gas pipelines to transport CO2. Lawyer and pipeline expert Paul Blackburn analyzes this trend.

CO2 pipelines can fail in many different ways, as outlined in this industry publication. Read this report from Fluor.

Three massive CO2 pipelines, proposed to crisscross five Midwestern states, would use public money to benefit the wealthy and powerful. Read this article by Rekha Basu.