Save My Louisiana members and supporters stand outside the 19th judicial circuit courthouse in Baton Rouge. The citizen nonprofit group filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of using eminent domain for carbon capture and sequestration projects. (Elise Plunk/Louisiana Illuminator)
A group of Louisiana residents is suing Gov. Jeff Landry’s administration over state laws that allow the acquisition of private property against landowners’ wishes for pipelines transporting carbon dioxide.
Save My Louisiana, composed mostly of resident and elected officials from Allen, Beauregard, Livingston, Rapides and Vernon parishes, is the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit against the state Thursday morning in the 19th Judicial District Court in Baton Rouge. Group president Gray Musgrove joined six other local citizens in the case against the governor and state Department of Conservation and Energy Secretary Dustin Davidson…