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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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The US Supreme Court is Operating Like a Rogue EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

In a blistering dissent over the 2022 decision to curtail the powers of the EPA on regulating power plant carbon dioxide emissions that fuel global warming, she said: “Whatever else this Court may know about, it does not have a clue about how to address climate change. The current court is silent on that.

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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 6180 ) to incentivize removing invasive lionfish from the oceans. Executive Branch.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. They are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, CFCs, and hydrofluorocarbons.

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Circuit Ruled that EPA Must Consider Endangered Species in Setting Renewable Fuel Standards. Circuit Court of Appeals sent the 2018 Renewable Fuel Standards rule back to EPA after finding that EPA failed to comply with requirements of the Endangered Species Act. Center for Biological Diversity v. Bernhardt , No.

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Did Biden have to approve the Willow oil project?

Legal Planet

That approval came a day after the administration said it would bar drilling in some other areas of Alaska and the Arctic Ocean. Does anyone really imagine that this project’s greenhouse gas emissions would not adversely affect the habitat of polar bears, or other ice-dependent listed species?

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September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Although the district court acknowledged that BLM provided “a lengthier explanation” of its reasons for not quantifying foreign emissions than the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management provided in the earlier case, the court found that BLM still did not “thoroughly explain” why an estimate of foreign emissions was impossible. 1:21-cv-11390 (D.

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