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Take Me Out to the Ball Game: Fair Collective Storage Order Takings Under Pennsylvania’s Carbon Capture and Sequestration Act

2024
Scholarly Work
Joe Harmar
Analyzes pore space and market valuation for carbon capture under Pennsylvania's Carbon Capture and Sequestration Act

Reconciling Property Rights with Carbon Capture and Storage

2023
Scholarly Work
Keith Hall
This article argues for a rethinking of property rights in the context of carbon capture and storage (CCS) - away from injunctive relief to stop subsurface migrations of CO2 and towards required compensation for landowners after an intrusion of CO2.

Pore Texas: Defining the Ownership of Underground Pore Space for Carbon Capture and Sequestration in Texas

2023
Scholarly Work
Tyler Roberts
This paper argues that Texas should adopt legislation that expressly designates ownership of pore space to the surface owner.

2023 North Dakota Law Review Energy Law Symposium

2023
News/Commentary
North Dakota Law Review
Links to presentations on the legal framework for geologic storage of carbon dioxide.

State Sequestration: Federal Policy Accelerates Carbon Storage, But Leaves Full Climate, Equity Protections to States

2023
Scholarly Work
Gabriel Pacyniak
This paper describes state-federal governance dynamics regarding CCS and concludes by identifying potential legal tools that states can use to address those dynamics.

Carbon Capture and Storage: Models for Compensating Holdout Landowners

2023
Scholarly Work
Keith Hall
This article discusses three potential models for compensating holdout property owners of subsurface pore space relevant to CCS projects.

Instruction Memorandum on the use of pore space on U.S. public lands

2022
Policy Proposal
United States Department of the Interior
This Instruction Memorandum conveys policy and direction for authorizing rights-of-way to use public lands for site characterization, transportation, injection, capture, and geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide at appropriately

Governance of Continental Shelf Spaces in the Energy Transition: Offshore Carbon Storage in Transboundary Geological Formations

2022
Scholarly Work
Constantinos Yiallourides
The paper examines the governance of offshore carbon dioxide storage operations in the transboundary context under the light of applicable international rules and regulations and state practice.

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