Regarding the importance of Greenhouse Gas Removal to achieve our nationwide climate goals, there are three important bills that CCL should consider supporting. The first one, which is the most natural one for CCL to take up and support, is the CREST Act. Written by Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Susan Collins (R-ME), and co-sponsored already by another Dem and another Rep, plus our own Independent Senator Angus King, it would put a modest amount of money toward research and development of Carbon Dioxide Removal methods. It seems to GGR team to be an obvious candidate for any MOC who believes that research is the first step on better understanding of the problem at hand, and the routes to favorable solutions.
The other two are also about research and development, but at a bigger scale over a decade, across several federal departments and research institutions. Each bill (one in the Senate, one in the House, essentially identical) would devote $12 Billion over the next decade to R&D on GGR. The Greenhouse Gas Removal team think this is the right scale for meaningful action, plus the appropriate broad expanse of subject areas to have the greatest chance at uncovering the right now unexpected but ultimately successful path(s) to getting the mess out of the air.
Thank you so much for diving into the details of GGR and tracking and supporting our work. You are a fast study. It should be no surprise that we stand with your views on the best policy prospects before us at this juncture. All Members of Congress should be willing to support research and testing of methods of greenhouse gas removal. Better knowledge leads to improved decisions. Each month that goes by, when global average surface temperatures are in record high territory should accelerate the support for better understanding. As Dr. Katharine Hayhoe likes to say, everyone can read a thermometer.
We are interested to hear any reactions you receive to your excellent post. Thank you. 😊
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