Near-term Deployment of Carbon Capture and Sequestration from Biorefineries in the United States
This paper evaluates low-cost, commercially ready sequestration opportunities for existing biorefineries in the United States.
Opportunities and Trade-Offs Among BECCS and the Food, Water, Energy, Biodiversity, and Social Systems Nexus at Regional Scales
This paper presents an interdisciplinary research framework to examine the trade-offs as well as the opportunities among BECCS scenarios using the Upper Missouri River Basin (UMRB) as a case study.
Policy Support for Biochar: Review and Recommendations
This paper examines the role that government policy can play in accelerating production and use of biochar at commercial scale in the United States.
Legal Pathways to Negative Emissions Technologies and Direct Air Capture of Greenhouse Gases
This Article assesses the legal and policy challenges of decarbonizing the atmosphere itself through negative emission technologies and, in particular, direct air capture.
The Politics of Negative Emissions Technologies and Decarbonization in Rural Communities
This paper analyzes prospective challenges for negative emissions through examining how decarbonization practices are evolving in one particular landscape: the Imperial Valley in southeast California, a desert landscape engineered for agriculture.
The Paradox of Regulating Negative Emissions Technologies Under US Environmental Laws
This article explores why federal and state legislatures and agencies should explicitly declare how (or if) current environmental laws will apply to NETs and provide guidance to the public and stakeholders.
Technological Carbon Removal in the United States
This paper explores the potential for technological carbon removal in the United States, identifies the needs likely to arise on the pathway to large-scale deployment, and considers way to begin addressing those needs.
Seaweed, Kelp, and Other Aquaculture Products – Legal Issues with Cultivation and Production as Food Sources
This document identifies the legal issues around the cultivation of seaweed and kelp at both the federal and state level.
California Forest Carbon Plan: Managing Our Forest Landscapes in a Changing Climate
This plan provides multiple strategies to protect and enhance forest carbon in California, and reviews the corresponding statutory and regulatory framework to do so.
Making Negative Emissions Economically Feasible: The View from California
This paper identifies how amendments to California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard would create the first substantial payment system for negative emissions.