Summit Seeks to Ease Iowa Permit Restrictions for Troubled Carbon Pipeline

September 17, 2025--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Summit Carbon Solutions (Ames, Iowa) is seeking to change language on the permit issued by Iowa for its Midwest Carbon Express Pipeline in order to make starting construction in the state less contingent on the pipeline's progress in two problem states, North Dakota and South Dakota. Where to begin and why is this important? Let's start with Summit's vision of the completed pipeline: a 2,500-mile network of pipe spanning five states (Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota), capturing and delivering carbon-dioxide from 57 ethanol plants to an underground storage space in North Dakota.