{"id":459,"date":"2010-11-18T11:41:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T16:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/?p=459"},"modified":"2013-02-21T16:12:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T21:12:49","slug":"459","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/459\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinic Releases Proposed Liability Framework for Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic released a working paper entitled &#8220;Proposed Liability Framework for Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide,&#8221; and a model statute, the CCS Liability Act of 2010. \u00a0The paper proposes a detailed liability framework to provide certainty, assuage public concerns, and remove barriers to these projects. \u00a0In particular, the proposal includes the following elements to encourage the development of CCS as a climate change mitigation strategy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>caps on liability for up to ten early demonstration projects, with amounts above the cap paid by an industry-financed fund (the \u201cCCS Trust Fund\u201d);<\/li>\n<li>cost-sharing between post-demonstration sequestration site owners\/operators and the industry-financed CCS Trust Fund in the event of catastrophic damages during the operational period;<\/li>\n<li>for both demonstration and post-demonstration projects, the post-closure transfer of liability to a government entity, with all post-closure liability claims and stewardship costs paid out of the industry-financed CCS Trust Fund;<\/li>\n<li>establishment of privately operated sequestration sites on public lands to minimize transaction costs, delays, and potential trespass and nuisance claims;<\/li>\n<li>preemption of nuisance and trespass claims unless actual damages exceed a certain dollar amount;<br \/>\na streamlined claims process; and<\/li>\n<li>certainty and transparency for businesses and the public alike.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/files\/2013\/01\/proposed-liability-framework-for-geological-sequestration-of-carbon-dioxide.pdf\">Working Paper: Proposed Liability Framework for Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/files\/2013\/01\/appendix-a_for-distribution-6.14.10-1.pdf\">The CCS Liability Act of 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic released a working paper entitled &#8220;Proposed Liability Framework for Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide,&#8221; and a model statute, the CCS Liability Act of 2010. \u00a0The paper proposes a detailed liability framework to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/459\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4638,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81265,81316,57371],"tags":[81301],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emmett-environmental-law-and-policy-clinic","category-clinic-news","category-past-events","tag-ccs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}