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CRES Forum Climate Policy Directives for Legislators, Policymakers, the Press, and the Public

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KEEP ALL OPTIONS ON THE TABLE TO REDUCE EMISSIONS Government should not pick winners and losers, but instead support all possible technological options available to avoid, reduce, capture and sequester greenhouse gases. The federal government should strengthen market signals for carbon avoidance and sequestration incentives.

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CRES Forum Climate Policy Directives for Legislators, Policymakers, the Press, and the Public

Cresforum

Government should not pick winners and losers, but instead support all possible technological options available to avoid, reduce, capture and sequester greenhouse gases. The federal government should strengthen market signals for carbon avoidance and sequestration incentives. The federal government should assure that U.S.

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The Second Circuit Takes on the Clean Air Act’s International Air Pollution Provision and Climate Change

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On April 1, 2021, a unanimous Second Circuit panel dismissed a lawsuit filed by New York City against a handful of fossil fuel companies seeking damages for climate change harms under state public nuisance and trespass law. The opinion and other case materials are available here.) Alternatively, the U.S.