Summary/Abstract
This bill establishes a licensing procedure at the Department of Environmental Management (DEM) for persons seeking to engage in geoengineering activity, with the intent to protect the health, safety, and environment of the state. Ocean iron fertilization, biochar (requiring the burning of “huge amounts of biomass such as trees, crops, and solid waste”), ocean-cooling pipes, carbon capture or removal and storage, and “land-based and ocean-based carbon sequestration” are defined as geoengineering activities.