End the use of eminent domain for CO2 pipelines in Illinois!
Support SB 2842
Citizens Against Heartland Greenwashing Projects (CAHGP), member of the Coalition to Stop CO2 Pipelines, has launched a legislative campaign to end the use of eminent domain for CO2 pipeline projects in Illinois.
Currently, no eminent domain protections or voluntary easement threshold requirements exist:
- The 2024 SAFE CCS Act does not set any limits on the use of eminent domain for CO2 pipelines, but did for assembling pore space for CO2 storage sites.
- The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC), the state’s permitting agency for CO2 pipelines, does not have a stated easement threshold that must be met before a company files. Thus, non-consenting landowners along a CO2 pipeline route are compelled to officially intervene in the ICC proceedings, which is extremely burdensome---in both time and money—and can cost $150,000 or more per intervention.
SB 2842 forces private companies to negotiate directly with landowners, helping protect landowner property rights, farmland productivity, and to improve CO2 pipeline safety through improved routing.
Read the bill and talk to your legislators!
Amendments to both the CCS Act and the Public Utilities Act, which are embedded in the SAFE CCS Act, are required to ban the use of eminent domain for CO2 pipelines.
Click here for access to SB 2842. Watch how the bill moves through Committees and the General Assembly. Help increase the number of cosponsors in the House and the Senate by calling and meeting with your legislators.
Download the information below to help prepare you to talk with your legislators. Take these documents with you when you meet with your state senator or representative:
- Fact Sheet-Why ban eminent domain for CO2 pipelines
- Illinois CCS Projects 11-12-25
- SB 2842 No Eminent Domain for CO2 Pipelines
- Farm Progress Show Flyer - 8-5-25
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Why CO2 pipelines are dangerous 8-9-25
Click here and enter your address to find contact information for your legislators.
What else can I do?
In addition to calling and meeting your state representative and senator, you can:
- Sign up to receive bill updates and invitations to Thursday night landowner organizing meetings.
- Join our lobby days, tentatively planned for March and May.
- Submit witness slips in support of the bill when there are public hearings.
Where are the CO2 pipelines planned through Illinois?
One Earth Sequestration, LLC CO2 pipeline is expected to reapply to the Illinois Commerce Commission after the state lifts its CO2 pipeline moratorium (July 1, 2026). While other companies have not yet shared pipeline proposals, we know that each of the projects on this map will require a CO2 pipeline to be constructed to bring CO2 to the storage site. Some of these will be short, if the capture and storage facilities are in proximity to one another (e.g., Marquis Energy). Others may be delivering CO2 from sources outside the state in addition to serving industry in central Illinois (e.g., Heartland Greenway, Christian County).
What we CAN say with some certainty, is that where there is sequestration proposed, there will be CO2 pipelines. This map provides an understanding of where one might expect to see such pipelines built.
