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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

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For example, the ongoing debate over the impact of certain pesticides in agriculture , greenhouse gas emissions are often a battle between the science and industry's attempts to muddy the science and government lobbying to roll back legislation (2). Typically used in conjunction with “greenhouse gas” but some emissions are not GHGs.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

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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. International.

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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.” United States v.

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ESA Policy News: March 20, 2023

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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. Congress Senate Commerce Committee to consider ocean debris legislation. Amendment Act ( S.

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ESA Policy News: August 30, 2021

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Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told colleagues in a letter that passing both infrastructure bills would put the country on track to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030. Additionally, USFWS is proposing listing Texas fawnsfoot ( Truncilla macrodon ) as a threatened species. Scientific Community.

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Policy News: January 18, 2022

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Judge orders USFWS to reconsider 2019 decision to not list the Yellowstone bison under the Endangered Species Act. Pennsylvania governor vetoes measure stopping the state from joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. PCAST: The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology will meet virtually Jan.

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