Landowners and environmentalists staged a die-in Thursday at the Iowa Capitol as part of rally urging lawmakers to pass legislation to address growing concerns about safety and the use of eminent domain for proposed carbon capture pipelines.
Final arguments over Summit Carbon Solutions’ pipeline permit have concluded, and the Iowa Utilities Board is set to decide whether to approve the controversial project.
Also, Iowa AG leads letter urging continuation of Dakota Access pipeline
Republican presidential candidate pushing issue in Iowa this week
Presidential hopeful criticizes ‘establishment GOP’ for its support of eminent domain process
Farmers should request refunds of the penny-per-bushel fee they pay for their sold corn to protest the Iowa Corn Growers Association’s support of carbon pipelines, according to some pipeline opponents.
Summit proposed the pipeline to capture carbon dioxide from more than 30 ethanol plants in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota, and to store it deep underground in North Dakota.
A group of South Dakota lawmakers has begun circulating a petition in hopes of forcing a special session to protect private property rights against the developers of a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline.
A carbon dioxide pipeline company did not properly notify a pair of northwest Iowa landowners before it sought to survey their farmland, a state district court judge has concluded.
Experts discussed plume modeling and emergency response at Des Moines meeting of federal regulator
CO2 pipeline opponents see it as attempt to push landowners to sign agreements
Among them: C02 pipeline restrictions, sale of birth control pills with a prescription, guns in school parking lots, parental permission for social media
In a Clay County case in northwest Iowa, a district judge said the law violated Iowa's constitution because it does not provide for just compensation for certain damages owed to landowners who lose their right to deny entry to their land.
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article included an incorrect civil penalty figure. The Iowa Utilities Board issued separate …
The Linn County Board of Supervisors will start from scratch on its consideration of an ordinance governing how close to structures a hazardous pipeline could be built.
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