Removing Carbon Dioxide Through Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement: Legal Challenges and Opportunities
This paper examines the international and U.S. legal frameworks that apply to ocean alkalinity enhancement.
S. 2263 – Sustainable Skies Act
This bill would allow a business tax credit though 2031 for each gallon of qualifying sustainable aviation fuel used by a taxpayer.
S.1356 – Healthy Soils Healthy Climate Act
This bill would create a permanent soil health program within EQIP that provides $100 million to producers who adopt practices that sequester carbon, prioritizing underserved farmers.
Hugging the Shore: Tackling Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal as a Local Governance Problem
This paper outlines some of the key local dimensions of marine CDR as currently imagined, and suggests a framework for increasing local participation in its assessment.
H.R. 3906 – Blue Carbon Protection Act
This bill would establish a Blue Carbon Program within NOAA to further conservation objectives, focusing on the research and evaluation of blue carbon storage as well as protection and restoration of blue carbon ecosystems.
H.R. 2757 – The Climate Agricultural Conservation Practices Act
This bill would require Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) to consider climate benefits including emissions reductions, carbon sequestration, and other resilience benefits when developing conservation practice standards.
Fair distributions of carbon dioxide removal obligations and implications for effective national net-zero targets
This paper looks at the implications that an equity perspective could have on national and regional obligations for negative emissions and the respective timings of net-zero targets.
The cost of CO2 transport and storage in global integrated assessment modeling
This paper assesses the range of CO2 transport and storage costs and evaluates their impact on economy-wide modeling results of decarbonization pathways.
SB 905: California Carbon sequestration: Carbon Capture, Removal, Utilization, and Storage Program
Bill requiring the establishment of a Carbon Capture, Removal, Utilization and Storage Program
S. 2118 – Clean Energy for America Act
This bill would modify the Section 45Q carbon dioxide sequestration tax credit by authorizing the direct payment of credits and removing minimum carbon thresholds to incentivize smaller projects.