Regulatory Promotion of Emergent CCS Technology
This report examines potential regulatory models for promoting CCS and seeks to assess where those regulatory regimes address or fail to address the impediments to commercial-scale CCS deployment.
Clean Coal Loan Guarantees and Tax Incentives: Issues in Brief
This Congressional Research Service report discusses certain federal financial incentive mechanisms for “clean coal” commercial projects; namely, loan guarantees and tax incentives.
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Potential of Agricultural Land Management in the United States: A Synthesis of the Literature
This report provides a side-by-side comparison of the GHG mitigation potential of 42 agricultural land management activities in the United States.
Carbon Capture and Sequestration: A Regulatory Gap Assessment
This report identifies a need for a comprehensive CCS regulatory regime based around a cooperative federalism approach that directly addresses liability concerns and that generally does not upset traditional lines of federal-state authority.
U.S. Forest Service’s National Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change
This roadmap includes strategies of the U.S. Forest Service to activity manage carbon stocks in forests, grasslands, and urban areas and to provide technical assistance to enhance carbon sequestration through afforestation and reforestation.
Assessing Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Opportunities and Implementation Strategies for Agricultural Land Management in the United States
Provides a roadmap and resource for programs and initiatives that are designing protocols, metrics, or incentives to engage farmers and ranchers in large-scale efforts to enhance GHG mitigation on working agricultural land in the United States.
Geoengineering: A national strategic plan for research on the potential effectiveness, feasibility, and consequences of climate remediation technologies
This report presents the conclusions of the Task Force on Climate Remediation Research, which was convened by the Bipartisan Policy Center in 2010 to develop recommendations for the U.S. government on geoengineering research and oversight policy.
The Limits of Liability in Promoting Safe Geologic Sequestration of CO2
This paper proposes a hybrid legal framework for carbon dioxide sequestration that combines a traditional regulatory regime with a novel two-tiered system of liability that is calibrated to objective site characteristics.
Federal Control of Carbon Capture and Storage
This article discusses the technical and legal problems that must be resolved to have a viable CCS program at the U.S. Department of Energy.
Climate Change, Carbon Sequestration, and Property Rights
This article considers the role of property rights in efforts to sequester underground hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide per year from power plants and other industrial facilities in order to mitigate climate change.