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Erin McCormick in Cass county, Indiana, with photographs by Kaiti Sullivan

‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies

Triptych photo composite of industrial equipment, a woman in glasses and cap and farmland.
L-R: The Andersons ethanol plant and grain elevator in Clymers, Indiana. Melissa Harrison sits in her ‘She Shed’ behind her home in Clymers. Farmland near the Andersons ethanol plant. Composite: Kaiti Sullivan/The Guardian

The plan to bury carbon under remote Indiana farmland is supposed to be a slam dunk for the climate, according to its supporters – all generously funded by US tax dollars.

But as far as Melissa Harrison and some other residents of Clymers, Indiana, are concerned, it just might be the end of their town. “This is our place,” she says. Generations of her family are buried in the cemetery, and she is raising her five grandchildren in one of several dozen white-clapboard homes among cornfields and industrial plants serving the farming industry.

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