Policy Goal: Land Owner Certainty

What is happening? Republican legislators in Iowa want to offer certainty to landowners in the path of a proposed carbon pipeline by requiring a 1 year moratorium on eminent domain.

Why is this important? The legislator made it clear that he is not anti-pipeline. The pipeline in question would move carbon through Iowa to other states to be sequestered.

How will this be important? Every time we deal with eminent domain, it is 2 competing constitutional rights. The right of a condemning entity to take land under certain circumstances and the protection the constitution affords to protect a land owners land from being taken.

Iowa Capital Dispatch | Bill switcheroo would delay eminent domain for pipelines