The Republican-controlled Congress has snuck a federal eminent domain land grab for pipelines into the “big, beautiful bill” that President Trump requested be passed by Memorial Day.

This proposed law would establish a “federal permit” for interstate CO2, hydrogen, and oil pipelines. It would expressly overrule all state pipeline laws, such as routing laws, moratoriums, bans on eminent domain, and construction mitigation requirements, as well as county pipeline ordinances.

If passed, this proposed law would give the federal government authority to take your land via eminent domain on behalf of corporations.

Worse, the proposed law would also provide “expedited review,” meaning that federal agencies would have just one year in which to approve needed federal permits. If a federal agency failed to approve a permit within this time period, the permit would be automatically approved “in perpetuity” without consideration of landowner or community concerns.

If passed, this law would mean that years of blood, sweat and tears poured out by landowners and impacted communities to ban state use of eminent domain for CO2 pipelines and require commonsense state and local safety and land protection requirements will have been for nothing.

The South Dakota ban on use of state eminent domain for CO2 pipelines would be rendered irrelevant, because Summit could use federal eminent domain. The CO2 pipeline moratoria in Illinois and California would be voided, because states would no longer have authority to permit interstate carbon dioxide pipelines. Moreover, all of the county setback ordinances would be voided, because routes would be determined solely by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Instead of public hearings by state and county agencies, pipeline permits would be approved by distant bureaucrats in Washington, DC.

These critical decisions should be made by state and local elected officials answerable to landowners and communities – not distant federal bureaucrats.

Protect our victories, our communities, your family, and your land by adding your name:

"I oppose federalization of pipeline permitting. Stop the federal eminent domain pipeline land grab."