SB396 amends the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act to create a legal framework for capturing carbon emissions and storing them underground. It allows the state to permit and oversee carbon sequestration wells, establishes rules for ownership and monitoring of underground storage sites, and authorizes environmental regulators to manage the process.

The Michigan State Senate passed SB396 on September 4, 2025 by a vote of 29 to 7. We have assigned pluses to the nays because the recent and dangerous expansion of carbon-capture storage systems in the United States is closely connected to the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for "sustainable development," which seeks to codify extreme "environmental justice" measures into state law. Its push for a "green" or "decarbonized" economy on behalf of "vulnerable populations" is nothing other than a fanatical attempt by globalist elites to increase their taxing power and authority. The abuse of eminent domain for these carbon-capture pipelines encroaches upon the constitutionally protected property rights of Michiganders. If America is to truly remain the "land of the free," then the states and the people must reject the hoax of "climate change" and put an end to the global war on farmers and ranchers.