(AP) – The Kansas Geological Survey has been awarded an $11.5 million federal grant to study storing carbon dioxide underground in south-central Kansas.

KGS says in a release that the grant from the U.S. Department of Energy will fund a 4-year project that involves capturing carbon dioxide from industrial sources and injecting it underground for long-term storage.

The agency says carbon dioxide is a byproduct of fossil fuel emissions and has been considered a cause of climate change.

KGS says the injection well is in an oil field south of Wichita in Sumner County. The carbon dioxide will be taken from the Abengoa Bioenergy Corporation plant near Colwich. At least 40,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the Abengoa plant will be compressed and injected more than 5,000 feet underground.