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Monday, February 28, 2011  The wait is nearly over for the four Illinois counties hoping to be the FutureGen clean coal project's carbon dioxide storage site. The FutureGen Alliance will announce its selection Monday. The alliance is a group of coal companies and other firms working with the U.S. Department of Energy on FutureGen.

Monday, December 20, 2010  The companies working with the U.S. Department of Energy to develop the FutureGen clean-coal project say they've cut the list of six potential carbon dioxide storage sites to four.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010  The City of Quincy has submitted a request to host the carbon dioxide storage site for the FutureGen 2.0 project.