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New Report on Liability Considerations for Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal in the U.S.

Law Columbia

Scientists have identified a number of land- and ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) approaches. Marine CDR approaches appear to hold great potential for uptake and sequestration of carbon dioxide. As the report released today shows, a number of U.S.

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Aggregating the Harms of Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

There are different regulations and often different regulators for impacts from coal mining on public lands, private lands, carbon dioxide emissions from combustion, methane emissions from mines, particular emissions, sulfur dioxide emissions, etc. Fossil fuels are a case in point. Consider coal.

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New Study Shows Extreme and Far-Reaching Impacts of Sackett Ruling on Federal Wetland Protections

Inside Climate News

By Lauren Dalban Wetlands and ephemeral streams provide a wide variety of benefits to people and wildlife, from flood protection for local communities, to preventing pollutants from entering the water supply, to breeding grounds for endangered bird species.

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Regulating Ocean Regulating Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement in Washington State Enhancement in Washington State

Law Columbia

The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change underscores the urgent need the advance carbon dioxide removal (CDR) as a complement to (but not a substitute for) emissions reductions. Carbon dioxide naturally moves between the atmosphere and the oceans surface in an attempt to achieve equilibrium.

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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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Removing Carbon Dioxide Through Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement: Legal Challenges and Opportunities

Law Columbia

Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is one of several proposed techniques for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in the oceans. In OAE, alkaline materials such as ground rock are added to ocean waters, increasing pH levels (and thus reducing acidity) and enabling greater uptake of carbon dioxide.

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CAFOs: Harming People Now, Later, and Forever

Vermont Law

The Environmental Protection Agency created the term “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation”, (CAFO) as part of a regulatory scheme for enforcing the Clean Water Act. Methane is a greenhouse gas that traps heat more effectively than carbon dioxide. came from animals confined in CAFOs.