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Proposed CLEAN Future Act

2020
Proposed Legislation
U.S. Congress
This bill would create a DOE carbon capture and utilization technology commercialization program to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, cost, and environmental performance of fossil fuel-fired facilities, and a DAC technology prize program.

Removing Carbon Now

2020
Think Tank Report
Oxfam
This report addresses how can companies and individuals can fund negative emissions technologies in a safe and effective way to help solve the climate crisis.

Should carbon removal be treated as waste management? Lessons from the cultural history of waste

2020
Scholarly Work
Holly Jean Buck
This paper looks at the historical evolution of solid and liquid waste regimes to draw lessons for the future evolution of a gaseous waste regime.

Decision making in contexts of deep uncertainty – An alternative approach for long-term climate policy

2020
Scholarly Work
Mark Workman, Kate Dooley, Guy Lomax, James Maltby, Geoff Darch
This paper critically examines both the use of BECCS in mitigation scenarios and the decision making philosophy underlying the use of integrated assessment modelling to inform climate policy.

Reframing the Climate Change Problem: Evaluating the Political, Technological, and Ethical Management of Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the United States

2020
Scholarly Work
Evvan V. Morton
This dissertation argues that climate change must be reframed as a two-part problem: preventing new CO2 emissions and reducing concentrations, which demands increased investment in DAC research, development, and deployment.

Who rules climate intervention on the high seas?

2020
News/Commentary
Olive Heffernan
This article discusses how research and deployment of marine geoengineering should be governed as more field trials begin to move forward.

Future of Carbon Capture Looks Bright After Treasury Proposes Long-Awaited Regulations

2020
News/Commentary
Latham & Watkins
Law firm commentary on the proposed Treasury Department and IRS regulations addressing issues applicable to the tax credit for CCS under Section 45Q.

H.R.5859 – Trillion Trees Act

2020
Proposed Legislation
This bill would commit the United States to the global One Trillion Trees Initiative and direct the Secretary of Agriculture to set domestic wood growth targets for the purposes of capturing and storing carbon.

Direct air capture: An emerging necessity to fight climate change

2020
Scholarly Work
Michael B. Gerrard
This article provides an overview of the need for direct air capture in fighting climate change and highlights some of the emerging legal and regulatory issues of deploying the technology at scale.

Danone – Horizon Organic Pledge

2020
Declaration
Horizon Organic announced a commitment to become carbon positive by 2025 using regenerative agriculture, soil sequestration, restoring prairie lands and forestlands, and evaluating and pursuing new technology.

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