Since the bill defines geoengineering as counteracting global *warning*
and not global *warming*, do we have anything to worry about?
The bill makes no distinction between small scale experiments and large
scale implementation, but I guess that is what the review process is for.
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On 3/22/2015 7:41 PM, Ken Caldeira wrote:
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.
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Carnegie Institution for Science
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On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Hester, Tracy
<tdhes...@central.uh.edu <mailto:tdhes...@central.uh.edu>> 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 <tel:713-743-1152>
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