🇺🇸📣 BREAKING: U.S. Senators re-introduce bipartisan CREATE ACT

U.S. Senators Senators Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) have recently re-introduced the bipartisan Carbon Removal, Efficient Agencies, Technology Expertise (CREATE) Act to boost federal research and development of carbon removal (#CDR) technologies, recognising the important role of CDR in achieving environmental targets and creating economic benefits.

Between the #CRESTAct and the #45Q Tax Credit and now the revitalization of the CREATE Act, the U.S. is moving steadily towards stronger, more diversified federal climate policy that includes a broad CDR toolkit – and this couldn’t be a more exciting time to follow.

Here’s how this bipartisan bill aims to support CDR at a federal level:

🏛 Create a new interagency group on Large-Scale Carbon Management to be co-chaired by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and officials from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), USDA, United States Department of Defense, and the NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration.

📝 Establish 4 working groups within the Large-Scale Carbon Management group to pursue a detailed CDR research and demonstration initiative across several federal agencies.

🕰 The work of the groups will include enhancing existing research programs and establishing new ones to deliver commercial-ready CDR innovations within the next decade.

🌲 Require that the working groups focus on CDR in the #oceans, #atmosphere, and #land using both natural and technological approaches.

I’m excited to see more and more U.S. policymakers looking specifically into CDR technology and going beyond direct air capture (#DAC), and I’m optimistic that more CDR initiatives like this one are entering the federal sphere instead of relying on state initiatives like those in the pioneer states like California (#SB308) or New York (#CDRLA).

🔍 You can read more about the bill here.

Are you optimistic about the U.S.’s CDR initiatives moving forward? Do you think this proposal will pass? What challenges do you anticipate?

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