ACTION ALERT!
Help us stop the use of eminent domain for CO2 pipelines!

MAKE A CALL. Please call your Illinois state senator today and ask them to cosponsor SB 2842, legislation that will ban the use of eminent domain for CO2 pipelines. Then call your state representative and ask for their support when the bill comes to the floor for a vote. You can find contact information for each by entering your home address on this web page.

Here is a simple script you can use. Modify it to make it personal.

Hello, my name is __________, and I am affiliated with Citizens Against Heartland Greenwashing Projects, a landowner rights group in Illinois. I am calling to ask you to support SB 2842, a bill that will ban the use of eminent domain for CO2 pipelines. 

There are nine carbon storage projects planned in Illinois under review by the U.S. EPA and more that have been announced. Each will require pipelines to transport CO2 to injection wells. 

SB 2842 will not stop a CO2 pipeline. By removing eminent domain powers, private companies will need to negotiate with landowners to minimize harm rather than threaten to take their land. This is important because without good-faith negotiations, CO2 pipeline routing by a private company can:

Restrict a farmer’s use of their property, destroy field tiles, and damage farmland to the extent that it reduces crop yield.

Be routed too close to homes, businesses, and schools, placing our families in grave danger. A leak or rupture of a CO2 pipeline can release a toxic asphyxiant that can harm—or even kill—people and animals over a mile away.

Currently SB2842 is in the Assignments Committee, but I am told it will be added to another piece of legislation. I also understand that will be more likely if there is widespread support for the bill. That’s why I am asking Senator ___________ to cosponsor SB 2842 and Representative _________ to support it. 

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SEND OUR LETTER. If you’ve sent our letter asking your state senator or representative to support and cosponsor SB 2842, do it again! That will remind your legislators that this issue is important to you. Click here to review and send.

KEEP TRACK OF SPONSORS!  Click for the latest fact sheet with the growing list of bill sponsors and organizations who are supporting this bill!