Summit Carbon Solutions, LLC v. Bremer County

In a lawsuit filed in the federal district court for the Northern District of Iowa, the developer of a carbon dioxide pipeline challenged local regulations of carbon dioxide pipelines passed by Bremer County in Iowa. The developer alleged that the County’s regulations were similar and in some instances identical to regulations that the Southern District of Iowa had ruled in <a href="https://climatecasechart.com/case/couser-v-shelby-county/">two</a> <a href="https://climatecasechart.com/case/couser-v-story-county/">cases</a> were preempted under federal and state law. The complaint also cited Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals and Iowa Supreme Court precedents. The developer asked the court to declare that the federal Pipeline Safety Act and Iowa state law preempted the local regulations and to enjoin the local regulations’ enforcement or implementation.