One day last fall, Sabrina and Ralph Jones spotted four wooden surveyor stakes in the farm field across the street, each one marked with a strip of orange plastic. That, the Joneses say, was their only warning that Navigator CO2 — an Omaha-based company that wants to store millions of tons of carbon dioxide underground in central Illinois — was planning to drill a testing well just 500 feet .
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For years, the carbon dioxide pipeline snaked through the fields and forests of Yazoo County, Mississippi, going largely unnoticed. But that changed forever on a winter evening in 2020. Under pressure from heavy rains and a landslide, the pipeline split in two, roaring like a jet engine, carving a 40-foot crater into the ground, and sending an invisible cloud of dangerous carbon dioxide vapor .