With Iowa Bill Nixed, Eminent Domain for Carbon Pipeline Draws Heartland Heat

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‘We can do better,’ Gov. Kim Reynolds says in her veto of lawmakers’ ban on companies seizing private land for a 2,500-mile five-state project.

A special legislative session looms in Iowa, where House Republican leaders are calling for lawmakers to convene in Des Moines to overturn Gov. Kim Reynolds’ veto of a bill adopted in May that would restrict the use of eminent domain in pipeline siting.

“This veto is a major setback for Iowa,” Iowa House Speaker Rep. Pat Grassley said in a statement that included a petition “to reconvene the Legislature.”

 

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