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Opportunities for Carbon Dioxide Removal Within the United States Department of Agriculture

2019
Scholarly Work
Rory Jacobson, Daniel L. Sanchez
This paper provides an assessment of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) existing programs and organizational structure, its capacity to support research and demonstration of CDR, and recommendations for expansion of these capabilities.

Measuring, Modeling, Controlling the Climate? Numerical Expertise in U.S. Climate Engineering Politics

2019
Scholarly Work
Julia Schubert
Drawing on empirical evidence from federal proceedings, this paper assesses how climate measures, models, targets, and thresholds have shaped the trajectory of geoengineering within U.S. climate policy between 1990 and 2015.

Technological Carbon Removal: Recent Economic and Political Trends in the United States

2019
Think Tank Report
Climate Advisers
This report assesses the current state of affairs surrounding technological CDR in the United States and provides concrete policy recommendations for action at the Federal level.

Carbon Removal: Comparing Historical Federal Research Investments with the National Academies’ Recommended Future Funding Levels

2019
Think Tank Report
The Bipartisan Policy Center
The objective of this analysis is to review the historical baseline estimates of federal RD&D investment related to carbon removal and assess how they compare with the recommended future funding levels from the 2018 National Academies Report on NETs.

Clearing the Air: A Federal RD&D Initiative and Management Plan for Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies

2019
Think Tank Report
Energy Futures Initiative
This report provides a set of recommendations and detailed implementation plans for a 10-year, $10.7 billion research, development, and demonstration initiative in the United States to bring new pathways for technological CDR to commercial readiness.

S. 6599 – Climate Leadership and Community Protect Act

2019
Enacted Legislation
State of New York
This bill enacts the New York State Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) that sets a statewide target of net zero GHG emissions by 2050 and allows for the use of offset projects to meet the last 15 percent of emission reductions.

Federal Policy Blueprint

2019
Think Tank Report
Carbon Capture Coalition
This policy blueprint focuses on the federal policy priorities of the industry, labor and NGO participants in the Carbon Capture Coalition.

S.407 – Carbon Capture Modernization Act

2019
Proposed Legislation
116th U.S. Congress (2019-2020)
This bill modifies 26 U.S.C. 48A to make CCUS retrofits to coal plants eligible for the qualifying advanced coal project tax credit.

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