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Futuregen Companies Want to Stick with Project
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- At least some of the coal producers and other companies working with the Department of Energy to build an experimental coal fired power plant in Illinois have decided to stick with the project despite major changes to the original plan.

Members of the FutureGen Alliance said in a statement Tuesday that they would build and operate a pipeline as outlined under the revamped plan. The pipeline would run from an existing power plant to a site where its carbon dioxide would be stored underground.

The Energy Department's surprise changes announced this month for the $1.2 billion project include scrapping plans to build a new power plant in Mattoon in eastern Illinois. The plan now calls for modifying a power plant in another part of the state.

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