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Should We Use the Ocean to Capture Carbon?

Ocean Conservancy

On a yearly basis, that’s more than the global emissions from the largest greenhouse gas-emitting sector, electricity and heat production. The growing field of marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR ) is exploring ways that we can augment the ocean’s ability to absorb and store the most prolific greenhouse gas warming our atmosphere.

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Permitting CO2 Pipelines: Overcoming State and Federal Barriers to CO2 Pipeline Networks

Law Columbia

In response to this challenge, public and private sector actors around the world are researching and deploying a variety of technologies designed to remove greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the atmosphere.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

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). Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity.

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Carbon Storage in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill

Law Columbia

This week’s IPCC report is another stark reminder of the need to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avoid climate disaster. To the extent those sectors continue emitting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, those gases will need to be captured prior to release into the atmosphere. By Romany M. While the U.S.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

Concern Over President’s Choice to Head Federal Wildlife Agency – Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Youngkin says he will take Virginia out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to save ratepayers money – The Washington Post. New York City to ban gas hook-ups in new buildings – The Independent.

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Biogas’ Toxic Relationship with CAFOs: How Reliance on this Fuel Source Engenders Harmful Animal Farming Practices

Vermont Law

In 2017, several groups filed suit against the EPA for promulgating a rule to exempt CAFOs emissions from reporting requirements under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA).

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). It demands to be governed by as universal a rule of apportioning responsibility as is available.” After the D.C.

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