If this is real and not a joke, and it passes in its present form, it seems as if someone in Rhode Island could potentially be fined and imprisoned for planting a tree with the intent of absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
_______________ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 [email protected] website: http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/ blog: http://kencaldeira.org @KenCaldeira My assistant is Dawn Ross <[email protected]>, with access to incoming emails. Postdoc positions available in my group: https://jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/dge/ On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Hester, Tracy <[email protected]> wrote: > > We now have possibly the first state proposed legislation in the United > States to control climate engineering efforts. A bill (H-5480) was > recently introduced in the Rhode Island legislature that would require any > climate engineering efforts to undergo an approval process and two (at > least) public hearings. The bill would impose fines and up to 90 days > imprisonment for each day that the unapproved climate engineering > continues. The bill also gives Rhode Island's environmental agency the > ability to enjoin and halt an unapproved project. > > > If you'd like to get more details, you can review the bill itself at > http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText15/HouseText15/H5480.pdf > > > > > These local initiatives might pop up in other state legislatures if > climate engineering research gains momentum (especially after the NAS > reports last month). If so, the prospect of overlapping or conflicting > regulations from multiple states will often spur the federal government to > impose its own consolidated regulatory scheme to preempt the state efforts. > > > > > Professor Tracy Hester > University of Houston Law Center > 100 Law Center > Houston, Texas 77204 > 713-743-1152 > [email protected] > Web bio: www.law.uh.edu/faculty/thester > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
