Grain Belt Express

The measure is in response to a long fight over the Grain Belt Express, a planned transmission line that will cut across a 200-mile stretch of northern Missouri. The changes, however, will not affect that project.

The proposed transmission line would carry clean energy from Kansas to Indiana, but to do that, it needs easements on landowners’ property across eight counties in northern Missouri.

Missouri landowners who are fighting a high-voltage wind energy transmission line set to be built across the state are angry that agents seeking…