Kansas makes airplanes. Soon it may make fuel for them, too, out of soybeans

Three years from now, passengers may zip around the continent on airplanes propelled by renewable jet fuel from Kansas. The key to producing this up-and-coming fuel? Soybeans. A Canadian company aims to build the state’s first refinery that churns out sustainable aviation fuel. And it hopes to pipe the emissions from the southeast Kansas factory to a carbon sequestration site for storage deep underground.

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