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Three companies are proposing pipelines across the Midwest that would carry carbon dioxide captured from ethanol plants to underground sequestration sites. The plan is to inject the CO2 deep into rock formations under Illinois and North Dakota, but some landowners are pushing back.

Rural towns and utilities could receive funds for all kinds of projects through the federal Inflation Reduction Act, but community members will need to step up to help make that happen.

Three companies want to capture carbon dioxide from Midwestern ethanol plants, transport it by pipeline and store it underground. Many in the ethanol industry claim it’s essential to the industry’s survival. Environmentalists and even farmers argue the pipelines are a boon for the industry — not a real solution for climate change.

State lawmakers have advanced legislation to restrict the use of eminent domain for three proposed carbon pipeline projects.

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Twenty-two Republican representatives sponsored the bill that would require owners of 90% of the land in a carbon pipeline’s path to agree to the pipeline before eminent domain could be used to access land from unwilling owners.

Iowa environmentalists and landowners are advocating for Iowa lawmakers to address three proposed carbon pipelines and ban the use of eminent domain for the projects.

A study done for the ethanol industry predicts dire consequences if carbon dioxide pipelines don’t go forward in Iowa but do in other states.

Wolf Carbon Solution’s 280-mile carbon capture pipeline will pipe liquid carbon dioxide from Cedar Rapids to Decatur, Illinois. But Wolf has to first get landowners to let pipe snake through their property.

Shelby County’s newly adopted ordinance limits where hazardous liquid pipelines can be built in the community. It’s a response to Summit Carbon Solutions’ proposal to build a carbon capture pipeline through the county.