AMT387- COMPROMISED Last Weekends VETO That Rocked Rural America- As A Man Thinketh

Across the heartland, a battle is raging not just for farmland, but for the future of energy policy, property rights, and political influence. At the center of it all stands Summit Carbon Solutions—a $8.9 billion gamble to build the nation’s largest carbon-capture pipeline, stretching more than 2,000 miles through five Midwestern states. Proponents call it a lifeline for ethanol and rural economies. Opponents see a machine fueled by big money and political favoritism, steamrolling property rights in the name of “green” progress.
Summit Carbon Solutions aims to collect carbon dioxide from roughly 57 ethanol plants and ship it through a sprawling pipeline web across Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota. The final destination: underground storage deep beneath western North Dakota.
House File 639: The Landowners’ Bill
The Iowa legislature passed House File 639 in early June 2025. Its provisions:
Tightened requirements for using eminent domain (pipeline companies would have to be “common carriers”).
Limited CO₂ pipeline permits to a single 25-year term.
Required strict insurance coverage.
Made renewals harder.
For rural landowners—some now on the receiving end of lawsuits from Summit—it was a rare bipartisan win. But Governor Kim Reynolds vetoed the bill, claiming it would jeopardize Iowa’s leadership in biofuels and create regulatory chaos.
She promised to support “landowner protections” and “transparency” through executive and commission action instead of law, but critics saw the move as a direct concession to pipeline developers.
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