Illinois environmentalists, business groups clash over carbon capture pipeline proposals [Video]

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) — Several bills in the Illinois state capitol are designed to create regulations for carbon sequestration pipelines, but not everyone agrees on what the new rules should be.

Environmentalists have been pushing for some new protections for landowners against companies wanting to build CO2 pipelines, but it comes with conflict against several business groups who want the state to let the projects continue.

Two points of contention are landowner protections and safety regulations around the pipelines.

Illinois bill aims to protect consumers from how companies store, collect health data

Environmentalists proposed a bill at a news conference Wednesday that changes how property is viewed by defining that landowners own the ground underneath the property, to give them a larger say in CO2 storage underground.

“The bill includes many regulations that are so critical to protecting our health, safety and environment at every step of the process: capture facility, along the pipeline routes, and at sequestration sites,” …