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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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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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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Beringia distinct population segment (DPS) of the Pacific bearded seal subspecies as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The plaintiffs charged that the U.S.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

They are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, CFCs, and hydrofluorocarbons. There may also be requirements on what technologies must be used for mitigation such as the use of catalytic converters in cars that used older lead fuel (6).

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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. The comment period ends March 31, 2023.

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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 25, 2022

ESA

Along with this assessment, the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of Domestic Climate Policy lead a report to the National Climate Task Force on opportunities for greater deployment of nature-based solutions. ESC – FY 2023 Appropriations Statement (March 28, 2022).

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