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CCS is set to face another active year in the 2025 Louisiana Regular Legislative Session. If you’re active in the CCS space or are planning to become active, check this page for regular updates provided by CCS Lawyer and Lobbyist Neil Abramson and CCS Lawyer Jeff Lieberman.

Initial Session Update

The 2025 Louisiana Legislative Session will officially begin on Monday, April 14. Twenty bills have been filed on carbon capture sequestration in Louisiana. The bills range from:

  • allowing each parish to decide whether to allow CCS in its parish;
  • eliminating eminent domain for all CCS pipelines;
  • taxing CCS;
  • increasing requirements and reporting on both CCS storage facilities and pipelines;
  • requiring the compensation of mineral rights owners.

You can read a brief overview of each proposed bill on Liskow’s The Energy Law Blog here.

Week 1-2

The 2025 Louisiana Legislative session is officially underway, with the Louisiana House committee set to hear multiple bills concerning Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) this Tuesday, April 29th. These bills will cover the regulation, safety, property rights, and local control issues surrounding carbon dioxide sequestration and pipeline infrastructure, with proposals ranging from permitting authority and compensation for landowners to moratoriums and safety protocols.

Read brief descriptions of the bills on The Energy Law Blog here.

Week 3

On Tuesday, April 29, the Louisiana House Committee on Natural Resources & Environment held a hearing involving 10 carbon capture and storage (CCS) bills, beginning at 9 a.m. with only a midday recess to attend the floor session, where they resumed until 10 p.m. when the hearing finally concluded. Of the 10 bills heard, one received a favorable vote out of committee, and two were deferred.

Read the full update of the bills on The Energy Law Blog here.

Week 4

There are seven more CCS bills, and potentially more to come, scheduled for hearing this week in the House Ways & Means Committee on Monday morning and in the House Committee on Natural Resources & Environment on Wednesday morning.  The bill pending before the House Ways & Means Committee seeks to impose an injection tax on CCS, with the money dedicated to local governments where the storage unit is located. The six bills currently set before the House Committee on Natural Resources & Environment range from banning CCS, granting CCS rights to mineral rights owners, and requiring the maximum payment to any owners forced-pooled into a CCS storage unit.

Read the full update and description of each bill on The Energy Law Blog here.

After two action-packed weeks at the Capitol, Louisiana lawmakers continued to vote down bills this week on carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), but did advance a few CCS bills out of committee.

Read the full update on each of these bills on The Energy Law Blog.

Week 5

The 2025 Louisiana Legislative Session has continued to stay busy on the carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) front, with a mix of outcomes for proposed bills. Two CCS-related tax bills, along with four local option bills, failed to advance past committee last week.

Read the full update on The Energy Law Blog here.

Authors

Neil Abramson | Shareholder, New Orleans

Neil Abramson is a registered Louisiana Lobbyist and an environmental litigator. He advocates on behalf of energy and environmental companies in legislative matters, including policies that promote increased economic growth and industrial development. Neil has recently worked with clients on policies involving renewable matters including carbon capture projects. Neil draws on his experience as the State Representative for the 98th District of Louisiana for 12 years as well as his involvement with the House Ways & Means Committee, the House Civil Law Committee, the Louisiana Commerce and Industry Board, and the Louisiana Law Institute Civil Procedure Committee.

Jeff Lieberman | Shareholder, Lafayette

Jeff Lieberman is an energy lawyer who helps clients with title, conveyance, unitization, permitting, and regulatory issues related to oil and gas exploration and production, enhanced recovery, and carbon capture utilization and storage. Jeff regularly appears on behalf of clients before the Louisiana Commissioner of Conservation and the State Mineral and Energy Board in Baton Rouge. Companies turn to Jeff because of the firm’s top-tier reputation for handling complex unitization and regulatory matters, as well as providing efficient, high-caliber title opinions involving mineral transactions. Since the 1930s, Liskow has been building and maintaining a comprehensive title library that covers Louisiana, making mineral-related deals faster and more efficient and playing a key role in facilitating sales of thousands of acres.

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