SB 859 – Healthy Soils Program
The legislation funded the Healthy Soils Program, which offers producers incentives to adopt GHG-reducing soil health practices and funds on-farm demonstration projects.
Mich. Admin. Code. r. 299.9204
Regulates CO2 pipelines and injection wells as Class VI injection wells.
S.F. 2503 – Buffer Law 2015
This state law is designed to reduce agricultural runoff, but will also increase soil carbon sequestration on the newly planted strips of land abutting lakes and streams.
Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 30-5-502
Provides for Oil & Gas Conservation Commission to certify geologic CO2 sequestration incidental to enhanced oil recovery (EOR) operations.
Mich. Comp. L. Ann. § 205.303
Grants a reduced severance tax rate to approved enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects using carbon dioxide injection.
Mich. Comp. L. Ann. § 483.3
Authorizes the Public Service Commission to regulate CO2 transmission pipelines.
Miss. Code Ann. § 27-65-19
Applies a significantly reduced sales tax rate to carbon dioxide sold to enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects or permanent geological sequestration.
Mont. Code Ann. § 69-13-101 et seq.
Classifies and regulates CO2 pipelines as common carriers, and authorizes the Public Service Commission to set rates of charge and promulgate operating rules for CO2 pipelines.
LA Rev. Stat. Ann. §§30:1109
Louisiana has enacted legislation to limit private liability for sequestration of captured carbon dioxide by transferring ownership of sequestered carbon dioxide to the state after 10 years.
Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 154.27-100
Authorizes the exercise of eminent domain authority for carbon dioxide pipelines which have received construction certificates from the Kentucky State Board on Electric Generation and Siting.