Kasich’s budget would cut 95% of clean-coal agency | The Columbus Dispatch

Columbus-based Battelle, for example, received a $3 million grant in 2008 for research into techniques to bury carbon dioxide released by coal-fired power plants. The gas, which is linked to global warming, would be injected thousands of feet underground.
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In 2006, the authority led an effort to land FutureGen, a $1 billion project to build a zero-pollution coal-burning power plant. The project fizzled out. Ohio paid a consultant $546,000 to help put together its bid and spent $2 million to drill a test well for carbon-dioxide burial.