H.R. 4072
would direct the EPA Administrator to conduct a measurement-based national methane research pilot study to quantify methane emissions from certain oil and gas infrastructure.
would direct the EPA Administrator to conduct a measurement-based national methane research pilot study to quantify methane emissions from certain oil and gas infrastructure.
would amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to optimize the sequestration of carbon and the reduction of net emissions through agricultural practices.
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.”
would direct the EPA Administrator to provide grants to air pollution control agencies to implement a cleaner air space program.
would direct the EPA Administrator to conduct a measurement-based national methane research pilot study to quantify methane emissions from certain oil and gas infrastructure.
would establish the Interagency Group on Large-Scale Carbon Management in the National Science and Technology Council and a Federal Carbon Removal Initiative.
would require the Secretary of Energy to conduct a study and submit a report on the greenhouse gas emissions intensity of certain products produced in the United States and in certain foreign countries.
which would provide for congressional disapproval under Chapter 8 of Title 5, U.S. Code, of the rule submitted by EPA relating to “Control of Air Pollution From New Motor Vehicles: Heavy-Duty Engine and Vehicle Standards,” was passed by the House.
Carbon offsets allow polluters to pay someone else to reduce, avoid, or remove emissions to counterbalance their own emissions. For some, carbon accounting concerns render offsets a necessary evil to be tightly regulated on the path toward decarbonization. For others, moral and political concerns render offsets a dangerous mistake to be thrown out of the climate law toolbox. This Article defends the critical role of carbon offsets in climate law, reframing the problem as the broader challenge of “climate resilience” and explaining why offsets are uniquely suited to integrate decarbonization and adaptation. It calls attention to overlooked adaptive practices like agroforestry and coastal reforestation; unearths the history of carbon offsets as playing the essential collateral role of securing regulatory buy-in from a large, heterogeneous class of polluters; and argues that focusing on resilient carbon begins to address many of the accounting, moral, and political concerns with offsets. Climate adaptation favors the payment-for-services and market-based approach of offsetting on normative and pragmatic grounds, even if the narrower goal of decarbonization does not.
would provide for consideration of the joint resolution (S.J. Res. 11) providing for congressional disapproval under Chapter 8 of Title 5, U.S. Code, of the rule submitted by EPA relating to “Control of Air Pollution From New Motor Vehicles: Heavy-Duty Engine and Vehicle Standards.”
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