LINCOLN, Neb. — A rural Nebraska county delivered a blow Tuesday to plans by an Iowa corporation to build a pipeline carrying carbon dioxide across the state.

The cases involved Summit Carbon Solutions, the company proposing to build a carbon sequestration pipeline through the state, and county supervisors from both Story and Shelby Counties.

Shelby and Story counties had passed ordinances limiting pipeline projects. The appeals court agreed the rules are preempted by federal law.

Summit Carbon Solutions scored a victory in its quest to build a carbon dioxide pipeline with a federal appeals court's ruling that federal law bars Iowa's Story and Shelby counties from imposing ...

Cedar River at Cedar Falls affecting Black Hawk county. Cedar River at Waterloo affecting Black Hawk county. Winnebago River at Mason City affecting Cerro Gordo, Worth and Floyd counties.

Burleigh County is planning to appeal a recent state permit approval for a major carbon dioxide pipeline set to route just a few miles north of Bismarck.

Another Iowa county is being sued by Summit Carbon Solutions over attempts to regulate the company’s planned carbon dioxide pipeline across Iowa. In 2022, Summit sued Story County and Shelby ...

Another Iowa county is being sued by Summit Carbon Solutions over attempts to regulate the company’s planned carbon dioxide pipeline across Iowa. In 2022, Summit sued Story County and Shelby County in ...

Bremer County is the third Iowa to be sued by Summitt Carbon Solutions over attempts to regulate the company’s planned carbon dioxide pipeline across Iowa.

BREMER COUNTY, Iowa (KWWL) -- Summit Carbon Solutions is now suing Bremer County, in the latest legal battle for their controversial carbon capture pipeline project.