Indiana Code Title 32. Property § 32-24-5-1

Sec. 1. (a) Whereas, the storage of gas in subsurface strata or formations of the earth in Indiana tends to insure a more adequate supply of gas to domestic, commercial, and industrial consumers of gas in this state and materially promotes the economy of the state, the storage of gas is declared to be in public interest and for the welfare of Indiana and the people of Indiana and to be a public use.

(b) Whereas, because the underground storage of carbon dioxide in subsurface strata or formations of the earth can assist efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and thus materially promotes the well-being of citizens of the state, the underground storage of carbon dioxide is declared to be: