About INDIANA ACTION TEAM

The Indiana Action Team (IAT) works to educate landowners and communities to support efforts that protect Hoosier life and land from risky carbon capture pipelines and underground carbon dumps.  

The IAT is also networking with other state-based organizations and impacted landowners opposing carbon pipelines and proposed underground carbon waste dumps across the Midwest.

Emma Schmit and local organizers work with landowners and communities in Indiana. Email for more information: emma@boldalliance.org. 

IAT is a part of a network of Easement Action Teams, a project of Bold Education Fund, that work in numerous states to handle outreach and education efforts with landowners.

Over the years, Easement Action Team landowners have also worked with various attorneys who have represented landowners across the Midwest and around the county in eminent domain battles, pipeline fights, and carbon dump site opposition. They have mounted landowner legal challenges to proposed projects and handled hundreds of lawsuits, including constitutional challenges and condemnation litigation.

Attorneys working locally with Indiana Action Team members include Eric Rochford and Taylor Byrley, with Indianapolis-based Malapit & Rochford:

J. Eric Rochford is the co-founding partner of Malapit & Rochford, located in Indianapolis. Eric has been practicing law primarily in the area of eminent domain almost exclusively his entire career. He focuses his practice on representing landowners in eminent domain matters, representing clients ranging from residential to commercial property owners. Prior to founding the firm, Eric represented condemning agencies and he was also a partner at a large firm in downtown Indianapolis. Eric earned his B.S. from Indiana University and his J.D. from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.

Taylor C. Byrley has been practicing law exclusively in the area of eminent domain his entire career. Prior to joining the firm Taylor worked for the Office of the Indiana Attorney General where he represented INDOT and the State of Indiana in condemnation litigation. Taylor earned his B.S. at Indiana University and obtained his J.D. from the Indiana University McKinney School of Law.