BATON ROUGE — Nonprofit organization Save My Louisiana filed suit against the state over carbon capture laws it says are unconstitutional, alleging they give private companies the power to take private property from residents.

The lawsuit targets a series of laws passed by the Louisiana legislature in 2020. It points to RS 30:1108 , which reads:

"Any storage operator is hereby authorized, after obtaining any permit and any certificate of public convenience and necessity from the commissioner required by this Chapter, to exercise the power of eminent domain and expropriate needed property to acquire surface and subsurface rights and property interests necessary..."

Save My Louisiana accuses these carbon capture laws of violating the Louisiana Constitution, specifically, residents' righ

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