Just a brief reminder: if anyone wants to comment on NOAA’s proposal for solar radiation management reporting regulations, the deadline to submit them is two weeks away (November 19, 2024).
Yesterday’s election, of course, throws some uncertainty into NOAA’s effort (as well unsettling the future of NOAA itself). But please comment nonetheless if you have an interest in the potential rules. Best, Professor Tracy Hester University of Houston Law Center 4170 Martin Luther King Blvd, Room 341K Houston, Texas 77204 713-743-1152 (office) [email protected] web bio: www.law.uh.edu/faculty/cv/Hester-Bio.pdf?<http://www.law.uh.edu/faculty/cv/Hester-Bio.pdf?> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Hester, Tracy Sent: Monday, September 30, 2024 9:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [geo] NOAA request for comments on potential solar radiation modification research regulation (deadline Nov. 19, 2024) We wanted to alert everyone about NOAA’s recent request for comments on federal reporting requirements for solar radiation modification research and field experiments. NOAA published its request in the Sept. 20, 2024 Federal Register, which we’ve attached. NOAA’s request arises from a rulemaking petition that the University of Houston Law Center, the Institute for Responsible Carbon Management, and several individual scholars filed in March 2024 to clarify reporting requirements for private solar radiation modification activities. But please do not limit your comments to the scope of our underlying petition. NOAA’s request throws a considerably broader net – in particular, item (4) opens the door to a broad range of feedback and suggestions (bolded below): NOAA solicits public comment on the petition for rulemaking to amend NOAA’s reporting regulations under the Weather Modification Reporting Act. NOAA is particularly interested in (1) how NOAA should update 15 CFR part 908 reporting requirements to account for solar radiation modification experiments, (2) what reporting requirements NOAA should include regarding potential and/or measured environmental impacts of weather modification experiments given the state of the science and current detection capabilities, (3) the spatial scale of weather modification experiments and their intended effects for which NOAA should request in submitted reports, and (4) whether, under existing statutory authorities, NOAA should pursue a broader regulatory strategy for solar radiation modification research and experimentation. Comments are due by November 19, 2024. If you would like to coordinate your comments with us or other groups, or you simply want to join comments filed by another party, please let either of us know and we’ll help if we can. Thanks, Tracy Hester Co-Director Environment, Energy & Natural Resources Center UNIVERSITY of HOUSTON | LAW CENTER David Bookbinder Director of Law and Policy Environmental Integrity Project -- 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]<mailto:[email protected]>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/SA1PR06MB78603023A8D1CC56DCAA12BABD762%40SA1PR06MB7860.namprd06.prod.outlook.com<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/SA1PR06MB78603023A8D1CC56DCAA12BABD762*40SA1PR06MB7860.namprd06.prod.outlook.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer__;JQ!!LkSTlj0I!BMyiW0plhZ3qupZMCsdBet7XacmsICBUE_ybCmIonFXxcHKje-bN8fMKvQBU6KGb__1b8XbzZyKSDG-e-ZR_vByQrpgO$>. -- 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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/SA1PR06MB7860D1A3016CCF06F0D6956FBD532%40SA1PR06MB7860.namprd06.prod.outlook.com.
