A central Louisiana group opposed to carbon capture and storage has asked a state judge in Baton Rouge to declare laws allowing companies to use private land for such projects an "egregious and overt trampling" of landowners' state constitutional rights.

In a lawsuit brought Thursday, Save My Louisiana and several of its members leveled that accusation as they seek to block enforcement of state laws allowing carbon capture companies to create underground storage "units" on private land for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

At a news conference outside the Baton Rouge courthouse, retired U.S. Air Force Col. Mark T. Guillory, one of the named plaintiffs in Save My Louisiana, argued that the Legislature improperly gave those powers in a way that doesn't serve the public good.

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