Air (generally)
Subsidies for Direct Air Capture: Lessons From the Solar Industry
Author
Ben Brokesh
Author Bios (long)

Ben Brokesh is a 2024 J.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.

Date
July 2023
Volume
53
Issue
7
Page
10538
Type
Comment(s)
Summary

The name of the climate game right now is fast, sustained progress. The world needs this both politically and technologically to effectively fight climate change. Progress was achieved both politically and technologically with the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), which allocated $369 billion to “energy security and climate change,” amounting to the United States’ largest investment in climate action to date. This Comment focuses on how subsidies like the IRA can affect the growth of climate technologies and set them up for long-term progress, and aims to supply a perspective, grounded in the history of a successful climate technology, that can help determine whether the subsidy status quo maintained by the IRA will be adequate for the development of direct air capture technologies.

H.R. 4211
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Sponsor Name
Blunt Rochester
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Del.
Issue
8
Volume
53
Update Issue
18
Update Volume
53
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
169 Cong. Rec. H2990

would improve air quality management and the safety of communities using the best available monitoring technology and data.

S. 2045
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Committee Name
Committee on Environment and Public Works
Sponsor Name
Markey
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Mass.
Issue
8
Volume
53
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18
Update Volume
53
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
169 Cong. Rec. S2145

would improve air quality management and the safety of communities using the best available monitoring technology and data.

S. 1923
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Committee Name
Committee on Environment and Public Works
Sponsor Name
Capito
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-W. Va.
Issue
8
Volume
53
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18
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53
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
169 Cong. Rec. S2050

would prohibit EPA from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing a proposed rule with respect to new source performance standards from certain stationary sources.

H.J. Res. 69
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Committee Name
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Sponsor Name
Burgess
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-Tex.
Issue
8
Volume
53
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18
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53
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
169 Cong. Rec. H2809

would provide for congressional disapproval under Chapter 8 of Title 5, U.S. Code, of the rule submitted by EPA relating to “Federal ‘Good Neighbor Plan’ for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards.”

H.R. 4038
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Committee Name
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Sponsor Name
Miller
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-W. Va.
Issue
8
Volume
53
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18
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53
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
169 Cong. Rec. H2808

would prohibit the EPA Administrator from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing a proposed rule related to new source performance standards and emissions guidelines for greenhouse gas emissions from certain stationary sources.

H.R. 4077
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Sponsor Name
Peters
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Cal.
Issue
8
Volume
53
Update Issue
18
Update Volume
53
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
169 Cong. Rec. H2884

would direct the EPA Administrator to provide grants to air pollution control agencies to implement a cleaner air space program.

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