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Iowa Code § 479B.1 (2026)
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It is the purpose of the general assembly in enacting this law to grant the utilities commission the authority to implement certain controls over hazardous liquid pipelines to protect landowners and tenants from environmental or economic damages which may result from the construction, operation, or maintenance of a hazardous liquid pipeline or underground storage facility within the state, to approve the location and route of hazardous liquid pipelines, and to grant rights of eminent domain where necessary. 95 Acts, ch 192, §28; 2024 Acts, ch 1170, §369
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Cited in 6
cases (4 in the last 5 years), 2019–2026 · leading case: Keith Puntenney, Laverne I. Johnson, Richard R. Lamb, Marian D. Johnson, Nw. Iowa Landowners Ass'n, Iowa Farmland Owners Ass'n, Inc., & the Sierra Club Iowa Chapter v. Iowa Utils. Bd., & Off. of Consum. Advocate & The Main Coalition, & Dakota Access, LLC, 928 N.W.2d 829 (Iowa 2019).
Keith Puntenney, Laverne I. Johnson, Richard R. Lamb, Marian D. Johnson, Nw. Iowa Landowners Ass'n, Iowa Farmland Owners Ass'n, Inc., & the Sierra Club Iowa Chapter v. Iowa Utils. Bd., & Off. of Consum. Advocate & The Main Coalition, & Dakota Access, LLC, 928 N.W.2d 829 (Iowa 2019). “” Iowa Code § 479B.1 (2016). The primary purported purposes of Dakota Access’s pipeline are (1) so a private business can build a private pipeline to “transport crude oil from sources in North Dakota to a hub in Illinois” and (2) to answer the oil industry’s desire for a…”
Keith Puntenney, Laverne I. Johnson, Richard R. Lamb, Marian D. Johnson, Nw. Iowa Landowners Ass'n, Iowa Farmland Owners Ass'n, Inc., & the Sierra Club Iowa Chapter v. Iowa Utils. Bd., & Off. of Consum. Advocate & The Main Coalition, & Dakota Access, LLC (Iowa 2019). “” Iowa Code § 479B.1 (2016). The primary purported purposes of Dakota Access’s pipeline are (1) so a private business can build a private pipeline to “transport crude oil from sources in North Dakota to a hub in Illinois” and (2) to answer the oil industry’s desire for a…”
Summit Carbon Solutions, LLC v. Kent Kasischke (Iowa 2024). “Iowa Code § 479B.1 (emphasis added). It is undisputed that carbon dioxide in its supercritical state can be hazardous if released by a pipeline rupture near people.”
Summit Carbon Solutions, LLC v. Kent Kasischke (Iowa 2024). “Iowa Code § 479B.1 (emphasis added). It is undisputed that carbon dioxide in its supercritical state can be hazardous if released by a pipeline rupture near people.”
William Couser v. Shelby Cnty. (8th Cir. 2025). “” Iowa Code § 479B.1. “The commission may grant a permit [to construct, maintain, and operate a new pipeline] in whole or in part upon terms, conditions, and restrictions as to location and route as it determines to be just and proper.”
Enter. Prods. Operating, LLC v. Iowa Utils. Comm'n (Iowa 2026). “§ 479B.1. The Commission therefore has the authority “to approve the location and route of hazardous liquid pipelines, and 8 to grant rights of eminent domain where necessary.”
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