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Removing Carbon Dioxide Through Seaweed Cultivation: Legal Challenges and Opportunities

Law Columbia

The Sabin Center today released the second in a series of white papers discussing legal issues associated with different ocean-based carbon dioxide removal techniques. the growing of kelp and other macroalgae which may be harvested for food, bioenergy, or other uses or sunk in the ocean to sequester the carbon it contains.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

Scientific provisions in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee bill is largely similar to the House bill: The Fish and Wildlife Service receives $200 million for Endangered Species Act recovery plans and $9.7 Ocean CDR is a set of strategies to sequester carbon dioxide in ocean waters.

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ESA Policy News: March 20, 2023

ESA

Comment Period for the National Nature Assessment Closes March 31, 2023 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy leaders appeal for input from ecologists in a Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment editorial. metric tons of carbon dioxide a year for up to 30 years. lands and waters by 2030.

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May 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The coal company’s petition presented the question of whether Section 111(d) “grants the EPA authority not only to impose standards based on technology and methods that can be applied at and achieved by that existing source, but also allows the agency to develop industry-wide systems like cap-and-trade regimes.” 2:21-cv-00724 (E.D.

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Policy News: April 11, 2022

ESA

This latest report looks at mitigation — or what the world can do to stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Capturing carbon is a must. Countries will also have to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to keep global warming in check. ESC – FY 2023 Appropriations Statement (March 28, 2022).

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Policy News: October 25, 2021

ESA

President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology holds second meeting of the administration, focused on climate, energy and the environment. California lists leatherback sea turtles as endangered. Innovation and Competition Act ( S. 1260 ) and the House’s NSF for the Future Act ( H.R. Scientific Community.

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