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Executive Actions to Ensure Safe and Responsible Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal Research in the United States

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The Sabin Center published a new report today recommending actions that federal agencies could take to ensure safe and responsible permitting and regulation of ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S. A variety of ocean-based CDR approaches—i.e., A variety of ocean-based CDR approaches—i.e., and the U.S.

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Sabin Center Releases its Summer/Fall 2018 Semi-Annual Report

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These include: Climate Engineering and the Law: Regulation and Liability for Solar Radiation Management and Carbon Dioxide Removal , edited by Michael Gerrard and Tracy Hester. The Center submitted comments and briefs to numerous agencies, including EPA, FERC and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Bureau of Land Management (BLM) failed to adequately consider the climate change impacts of oil and gas leasing in Wyoming in accordance with the court’s March 2019 opinion that identified shortcomings in BLM’s original analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) request, the D.C.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lacked authority to administratively stay portions of new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector for which it had granted requests for reconsideration. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com.

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Sabin Center Urges BOEM to Consider Climate Change Risks to Offshore Wind Projects, as Well as Climate Change Impacts to Wildlife if Offshore Wind Projects Are Not Constructed

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In March 2021, the Biden Administration announced a target of deploying 30,000 megawatts (MW) of offshore wind capacity by 2030, enough energy to power approximately 10 million homes. Department of Energy has reported that projects comprising more than 40,000 MW of capacity are in the pipeline at various stages of development.

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Carbon Storage in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill

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Leases are issued by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA). By Romany M. This week’s IPCC report is another stark reminder of the need to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avoid climate disaster. While the U.S.

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January 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) approval of an offshore drilling and production facility off the coast of Alaska in the Beaufort Sea, finding that BOEM failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

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