On one hand, it uses infrastructure that could easily be repurposed for carbon sequestration in areas that tend to be suitable for carbon sequestration.
|
|
The blueprint calls for ending defense sequestration — more precisely, the reduction in the Budget Control Act's defense caps following the failure of the supercommittee and the 2013 sequestration.
|
|
The budget caps from sequestration are still on the books.
|
|
Both parties hate the automatic budget cuts known as sequestration.
|
|
Your modeling does not include any carbon sequestration through 2050.
|
|
However, sequestration has only happened once since then, in 2013.
|
|
The Pentagon study's revelations could make overturning sequestration more difficult.
|
|
The story begins on the 400th day of their sequestration.
|
|
The sequestration part of CCS is still looming out there.
|
|
Bioenergy coupled to carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) is another option.
|
|
Carbon would be buried deep in the soil through carbon sequestration.
|
|
That's the logic behind bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS).
|
|
In 2013, sequestration halted air traffic controller hiring for a full year.
|
|
Research on carbon capture and sequestration has advanced, but needs more support.
|
|
While that's true, Smith countered, sequestration was not an issue back then.
|
|
Before sequestration (a one-time event in 21625), they were a stick.
|
|
Those numbers rose for both deforestation (carbon release) and forest restoration (carbon sequestration).
|
|
Soil naturally absorbs carbon from the atmosphere through a process known as sequestration.
|
|
Besides helping reduce harmful greenhouse gases, carbon sequestration is a boon for farming.
|
|
Already they have made clear that they aren't interested in allowing a sequestration.
|
|
But even sequestration, some say, can't keep a jury isolated from all influences.
|
|
We already saw through sequestration how disruptive and illogical such reductions can be.
|
|
President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to overturn sequestration, and increase defense spending.
|
|
We can recognize the sequestration potential of our ocean in reducing carbon emissions.
|
|
We must find a way to lift sequestration as it is currently structured.
|
|
It fully repeals the automatic spending caps known as sequestration for nondefense programs.
|
|
"We all remember the disruptions we experienced in 2013 with sequestration," he continued.
|
|
The ceilings are referred to as sequestration, or sequester, and go through 2021.
|
|
Going over the caps triggers across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration.
|
|
If lawmakers do not reduce spending, "sequestration" kicks in and enforces the caps.
|
|
Farming can also be a source of carbon sequestration, but how to preserve that?
|
|
The harsh "sequestration" budget caps would return in fiscal year 2020 without congressional action.
|
|
The results of this study will form the blueprint for maximizing soil carbon sequestration.
|
|
This includes the Carbon Cup, a nationwide sequestration competition to spark on-farm innovation.
|
|
The clearest path to clean coal is carbon capture, utilization and sequestration, or CCUS.
|
|
Congress-approved automatic budget cuts — a process known as sequestration — did not help matters.
|
|
Clean coal technologies, the carbon capture utilization, sequestration—we're exporting that around the world.
|
|
Yes, the threat of sequestration (and government shutdown) may hang over us every year.
|
|
They have until January to avoid the across-the-board budget cuts under sequestration.
|
|
Defense connection: Without a budget deal, draconian cuts known as sequestration would take effect.
|
|
In addition, or in the alternative, the government seeks semi-sequestration of the jury.
|
|
Meanwhile, "sequestration" has imposed fixed limits on spending since hardliners demanded it in 2013.
|
|
But the Freedom Caucus wants a multi-year deal with more sequestration-type restrictions.
|
|
Swiss authorities seized the cars and ordered the sequestration of a yacht in 2016.
|
|
How big a role does carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) play in your schema?
|
|
CCU can't substitute for that; it is a marginal contributor to sequestration at best.
|
|
One circle is CO2 policies that result in the mitigation or sequestration of CO2.
|
|
For years, lawmakers have passed temporary spending to exceed the sequestration layer of caps.
|
|
The bill would also avert automatic defense sequestration cuts that would otherwise take effect.
|
|
"If you're going to fight fixing sequestration, you're a complete a-hole," he said.
|
|
Technologies that have "stalled" — nuclear power, carbon capture and sequestration, biofuels — must be kickstarted.
|
|
The BCA caps, and the sequestration tied to them, go through fiscal year 2021.
|
|
And it might be the best hope also for climate change and sequestration of carbons.
|
|
Is subsidizing oil production really the only way to get large-scale carbon sequestration started?
|
|
You can counter those emissions by purchasing carbon credits or investing in carbon sequestration schemes.
|
|
Walz also wanted to exempt the funding for the Choice program from potential sequestration cuts.
|
|
If those caps are breached, they will trigger across-the-board cuts known as sequestration.
|
|
Background: Across-the-board cuts known as sequestration wouldn't kick in for another few months.
|
|
Sequestration spending cuts are due to take effect in January if no deal is reached.
|
|
While either party could request jury sequestration, it's ultimately up to the judge to decide.
|
|
The quietly humming machinery in the apartment fell silent as Shifa ran the sequestration process.
|
|
But we also need to reabsorb the excess carbon that's there, known as carbon sequestration.
|
|
Coal and natural gas are already losing out to wind in many areas, without sequestration.
|
|
However, as they acknowledge, sequestration isn't the only way to contribute to the mitigation challenge.
|
|
Since 2011, real defense spending has declined $78 billion due to sequestration and budget cuts.
|
|
Sequestration in 2013 caused significant disruptions in readiness that are the root of today's challenges.
|
|
If they are not lifted, Congress faces sequestration, an automatic across-the-board spending cut.
|
|
Some of the attendant challenges include competition for land and permanence of the carbon sequestration.
|
|
The sequestration caps were devoid of reality on both the defense and non-defense side.
|
|
We might need carbon capture and sequestration, most likely attached to biomass and maybe natural gas.
|
|
Appropriations bills must adhere to certain spending ceilings mandated by "sequestration" ceilings Congress approved years ago.
|
|
An investigation has been open for kidnapping and sequestration, attempted homicide and violence with a weapon.
|
|
EOR is the only form of large-scale, permanent carbon sequestration that currently makes a profit.
|
|
Medicaid, Social Security, food stamps, and all social safety net programs are exempt from this sequestration.
|
|
The shutdown triggered then—as it could now—automatic, across-the-board spending cuts, or sequestration.
|
|
And there's no carbon price anywhere in the world big enough to make sequestration pay off.
|
|
In the three years since the sequestration-caused hiring freeze, our system still has not rebounded.
|
|
Coal-fired power plants will need to be equipped with costly carbon capture and sequestration systems.
|
|
Either party can request jury sequestration or the judge can make the determination on their own.
|
|
The budget would also cut advanced nuclear energy research and research into carbon capture and sequestration.
|
|
The Earth has a few carbon sinks for sequestration: the oceans, the soils and the trees.
|
|
When it comes to climate change, it means coal with the carbon capture and sequestration (CCS).
|
|
Mr. Tillerson has backed a carbon tax and research to advance carbon capture, sequestration and biofuels.
|
|
The firms vowed to limit methane emissions and highlighted their investment into carbon capture and sequestration.
|
|
Companies claimed the credits but avoided the monitoring and reporting requirements needed to show actual sequestration.
|
|
To slow down or offset these processes, things like carbon sequestration and plant growth could help.
|
|
It also means no natural gas, no nuclear power, no carbon capture and sequestration, and no biofuels.
|
|
This waiver would allow Congress to bypass the sequestration law meant to keep the deficit in check.
|
|
In addition to carbon sequestration, there's a major problem in groundwater contamination because of pesticides and weedicides.
|
|
The second is the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA), which gave us "sequestration," among other things.
|
|
Why it matters: The budget lifts sequestration caps, increasing discretionary spending by $300 billion over two years.
|
|
Trump's defenders also cite the fact that Obama signed into law "sequestration" measures which reduced defense spending.
|
|
But mandatory budget cuts under sequestration prompted the Army to take one of the 101st's CABs away.
|
|
Without an agreement, steep, across-the-board cuts, known as sequestration, are set to kick back in.
|
|
They said the sequestration has negatively impacted the force in many ways, including in retaining experienced pilots.
|
|
The technology on which most hopes are pinned is bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration, or BECCS.
|
|
This rampant destruction has also reduced the natural carbon sequestration abilities that boreal forests have historically served.
|
|
It's now committed to spending twice as much as it currently does on offsets of carbon sequestration.
|
|
Intact forest ecosystems provide not only carbon sequestration but ecosystem services, wild animal habitat, recreation, and beauty.
|
|
They want a functioning Congress that will actually pass a budget, not rely on gimmicks like sequestration.
|
|
Conservatives oppose that number because it busts the cuts known as sequestration that Congress enacted in 2011.
|
|
As the climate warms, ice in polar seas decreases, marine life is clawing back via carbon sequestration.
|
|
It also includes about $66 billion in special war funding, which is exempt from the sequestration cap.
|
|
"Several recent research studies indicate that the net carbon sequestration rates in trees decline with maturity," he said.
|
|
But there are still plenty of pitfalls standing between Congress and an official, long-awaited end to sequestration.
|
|
Democrats want to strike a budget deal to avoid automatic across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration.
|
|
But when you look at individual carbon sequestration projects from a carbon accounting perspective, it's a different matter.
|
|
But cuts to the military were part of the budget sequestration approved by the Obama administration and Congress.
|
|
Animals like jaguars could influence processes as diverse as the dynamics of disease, wildfire, and even carbon sequestration.
|
|
After three years, Wick was disappointed to discover that grazing on its own wasn't leading to carbon sequestration.
|
|
Congress mandated budget cuts called sequestration in 2013 that significantly altered the equipment and training of some units.
|
|
Some iterations of Y Combinator's plan for carbon sequestration already exist or have been tried by previous startups.
|
|
Sequestration is the massive automatic budget cuts that will happen if Republicans and Democrats can't agree by Oct.
|
|
Mr. Lal called the target unrealistic, but said achieving just a quarter of that sequestration would be meaningful.
|
|
Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio) says President Obama has "hollowed out" the military through budget cuts from sequestration.
|
|
Without a caps deal, across-the-board cuts known as sequestration will kick back in early next year.
|
|
Here's the history that O. J. and America finally could not get past, that jurors carried into sequestration.
|
|
Exxon Mobil, for instance, has financed research into carbon capture and sequestration and lobbied for a carbon tax.
|
|
Mac Thornberry (R-Ariz.), said they would continue efforts to eliminate wasteful spending, but still pursue overturning sequestration.
|
|
Princess Hassa bint Salman was charged in August with theft, complicity with voluntary violence and complicity of sequestration.
|
|
Environmentalist climate hawks may have to tolerate large-scale carbon sequestration or new rivers given over to dams.
|
|
Obama's negotiations with Republicans in 2011 led to spending ceilings known as sequestration that Congress is still battling.
|
|
It also provided relief to the most destructive automatic "sequestration" spending cuts that went into effect in 2628.
|
|
"The sequestration of emergent AI is really a formality in most cases," said Shifa reassuringly, misinterpreting Eliana's frown.
|
|
Hitting these goals will involve a wide range of investments in everything from district heating to carbon sequestration.
|
|
Do they practice carbon sequestration, in which carbon is captured and stored rather than released into the atmosphere?
|
|
Maybe that would be my sequestration project as I start to play more guitar than I used to.
|
|
The agreement also lifted the spending caps known as sequestration, which were first put in place in 2011.
|
|
And the OCO money, which some critics have described as a "slush fund," is exempt from sequestration caps.
|
|
But the budget sequestration in 2013 abruptly ended the Army's experiment, and the blimp was auctioned for scrap.
|
|
Enhanced oil recovery can be done in concert with permanent geological carbon sequestration, but it rarely is today.
|
|
Only a small slice of it can ever claim to be carbon-negative; its sequestration potential is limited.
|
|
Those cuts eventually came in the form of across-the-board sequestration of most mandatory and discretionary spending.
|
|
"What this new paper says is that even the scrawniest of mangroves are important for carbon sequestration," Kirwan said.
|
|
If the CO23 comes from the right source and enough is buried, it could amount to substantial carbon sequestration.
|
|
There are options: wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, geothermal, and coal or natural gas with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS).
|
|
The company launched the Terraton Initiative on Wednesday to accelerate carbon sequestration from agricultural soil on a massive scale.
|
|
If officials in Washington cannot raise those limits, it could trigger budget sequestration — significant automatic cuts across government agencies.
|
|
But the bill came after mandatory across-the-board cuts, known as "sequestration," were enacted that slashed defense spending.
|
|
But Dr Matter's proof of the principle of chemical sequestration in rock suggests it would be worth finding out.
|
|
The law mandated sequestration and imposed strict fiscal controls at a moment when the economy still needed economic stimulus.
|
|
By 2027, defense spending would increase $42 billion over sequestration levels, while nondefense would be cut by $260 billion.
|
|
Finally, the sequestration or (as has been reported) destruction of detainee art would run afoul of U.S. copyright law.
|
|
It needs to figure out some way to monetize carbon sequestration in those forests, lest they be clear-cut.
|
|
Smart policies that incentivize carbon sequestration and land donation are exactly the kinds of innovations Congress should focus on.
|
|
Sustainable soil management and agroforestry are key solutions that "deliver carbon sequestration in soil or vegetation," the report notes.
|
|
But the effectiveness of trees in such carbon sequestration is heavily dependent on how—and where—reforestation is pursued.
|
|
The Pentagon was hit in 85033 with massive defense cuts of $500 billion over 10 years, known as sequestration.
|
|
If either are enacted, they would trigger sequestration, the automatic cuts required by the 2011 Budget Control Act (BCA).
|
|
In 2012, the Obama administration sought to close the Lima plant as part of the mandated budget sequestration process.
|
|
However, UMWA would have liked to have seen stronger language in the resolution about technology, namely carbon capture and sequestration.
|
|
"The president does not want a caps deal" to keep sequestration from kicking in, he told Hill staff last week.
|
|
The caps require across-the-board cuts on domestic and military funding, known as sequestration, if federal spending exceeds them.
|
|
In 2013, sequestration-related budget cuts caused the Navy and Air Force to cancel the performances for both units. 4.
|
|
Two potentially large sources of dispatchable carbon-free power are nuclear and fossil fuels with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS).
|
|
What's more, Republicans will need 60 votes to erase the budget caps in military spending put in place by sequestration.
|
|
"Soil carbon sequestration" was to be reframed as "building organic matter in the soil to improve soil health," for example.
|
|
Any spending above the level specified in the caps triggers sequestration, an across-the-board cut in all programs' funding.
|
|
Increasing the defense budget requires repealing the caps set by the Budget Control Act of 2011, better known as sequestration.
|
|
Sequestration was triggered only once — in 2013 — but since then, the Pentagon has been keeping its head under the caps.
|
|
As we've seen in recent years with budget sequestration, Congress doesn't automatically undo scheduled spending cuts when deadlines come due.
|
|
For years, scientists and others concerned about climate change have been talking about the need for carbon capture and sequestration.
|
|
What's more, the Amazon rainforest plays a crucial role in oxygen production, carbon sequestration, and the saga surrounding climate change.
|
|
Mr. Biden also supports federal funding for carbon capture and sequestration programs that could, in theory, eventually offset some emissions.
|
|
Now, a Republican Congress is agreeing to raise spending beyond those sequestration limits without other cuts to offset the increases.
|
|
Sequestration procedures were liberal dreams come true, forcing wasteful increases in domestic programs in order to obtain critical military funding.
|
|
The president will have to work with Congress to remove the "sequestration" defense spending caps and adequately fund the military.
|
|
This locks carbon out of the atmosphere for millennia or longer, resulting in long-term sequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
|
|
Pentagon officials have warned that the budget caps, known as sequestration, and budget instability are a threat to national security.
|
|
Although veteran benefits are exempt from the sequestration provisions of that law, they are not relieved from the offset requirement.
|
|
The revived environment would also increase the albedo effect, lower methane output and increase the soil's potential for carbon sequestration.
|
|
Sure, in theory, over time, they could evolve into pure carbon sequestration companies or renewable energy companies or pipeline services companies.
|
|
Trump said he will ask Congress to repeal sequestration, which is a relic of a debt ceiling compromise reached in 236.
|
|
Why it matters: Congressional sources found it bizarre that the White House isn't interested in making a deal to block sequestration.
|
|
They never did reach a grand bargain, so now the federal government is stuck with the ever-present threat of sequestration.
|
|
So there's stuff that's crazy out there and requires science — that might be algae, or carbon sequestration, or advanced nuclear power.
|
|
That move would mean more business and jobs after years of stagnation due to constraints under the government's sequestration of funds.
|
|
And if those limits were exceeded, down swung sequestration, a meat cleaver that trimmed an even layer off the defense budget.
|
|
Carbon sequestration could be increased intensively in parts of southern Africa, Ethiopia and Sudan too, Verchot said in a phone interview.
|
|
Moran also testified that a lack of ship maintenance and training that could have caused the collisions is linked to sequestration.
|
|
The sequestration measures that went into effect in 2013 as part of a budget deal affect both military and nonmilitary spending.
|
|
In any case, the numbers are still well above the $28503 billion set by sequestration in the 22019 Budget Control Act.
|
|
This is a reversal from the politics of the failed Super Committee in 2011 and the allowance of sequestration in 85033.
|
|
That amounts to shuttering more than 2628 agency programs, and this come after years of cost-cutting measures under Congress' sequestration.
|
|
In the heavily harvested industrial forest lands of northern New England there is even more potential for a greater carbon sequestration.
|
|
But still, the clean kind, using captured CO2 rather than CO2 pulled from natural reservoirs, and maximizing sequestration, is more expensive.
|
|
The subcommittee mark also authorizes funding for a Pentagon cyber scholarship program that was phased out in 2013 due to sequestration.
|
|
The coal executives argue that given the same incentives and subsidies as renewables, carbon capture and sequestration can also take off.
|
|
With the possibility of a CR and sequestration looming, defense hawks and the Pentagon have been running a full-court press.
|
|
They vowed to limit methane emissions and highlighted their support for research into new technologies, such as carbon capture and sequestration.
|
|
Both bills would increase the deficit and could trigger cuts to Medicare if Congress doesn't waive sequestration rules for federal spending.
|
|
Lawmakers need to raise the budget caps in order to avoid across-the-board spending cuts that are mandated by sequestration.
|
|
Warren's proposing a marine carbon sequestration program, aimed at improving marine ecosystems' capacity to keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.
|
|
But Paul withheld his consent, angling for a vote on his amendment that would instead preserve the so-called sequestration budget caps.
|
|
" Mattis testified this year, "No enemy in the field has done more to harm the combat readiness of our military than sequestration.
|
|
Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) and Whitehouse would increase the credits to $35/ton for oil recovery and $50/ton for permanent sequestration.
|
|
The primary instrument of negative emissions is expected to be BECCS: bioenergy (burning plants to generate electricity) with carbon capture and sequestration.
|
|
This will require machines that scrub carbon dioxide out of the air as well as biofuels coupled with carbon capture and sequestration.
|
|
For example, there are easy ways to lock in roughly $50 to $60 billion of that through things like extending mandatory sequestration.
|
|
Trump often uses the term "clean coal," but it's uncertain whether he's referring to so-called carbon capture, utilization and sequestration technology.
|
|
The process is called carbon capture, or carbon sequestration, and it's fired up the imaginations of inventors and the excitement of investors.
|
|
If the primary driver of low morale were shutdowns, budget tussles, and sequestration, employee morale would consistently dip across levels of government.
|
|
On Beauty The masking hour is, traditionally, a period of required sequestration — a nighttime ritual designed to rebalance your skin in privacy.
|
|
A "green" stimulus could, for example, retrain workers from the oil and gas industry to lay pipelines for carbon capture and sequestration.
|
|
The dynamic relationship between pasture, grassland and trees creates greater carbon sequestration, more water retention, less if any erosion, and more biodiversity.
|
|
Once you add sequestration, even as wind and solar are getting cheaper and cheaper, how can fossil fuels with CCS possibly compete?
|
|
Both are what officials have described as consequences of protracted combat and budget restrictions, known as sequestration, that were imposed by Congress.
|
|
If passed as is, war funding would run out just as the Bipartisan Budget Act is expiring and sequestration kicks back in.
|
|
They asked Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto to restrict Mr. Shkreli from further public statements, and to consider partial sequestration of the jury.
|
|
Yet it is possible the sequestration of patients in Wuhan could succeed in stemming further spread of the coronavirus, Dr. Markel said.
|
|
Pennsylvania judicial officials refused to detail the terms of their sequestration — whether, for example, they can have a laptop computer with them.
|
|
Both discretionary spending figures were substantially higher than those proposed by Trump, but nondiscretionary spending was below the sequestration-level budget caps.
|
|
Across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration will go into place if lawmakers can't reach a deal to raise the caps.
|
|
BCA Caps Prohibit Strategic Planning Even if a short-term deal could be reached, the continued threat of sequestration poses high risks.
|
|
Government funding and budget caps Congress has a matter of weeks to reach a deal to avoid automatic cuts known as sequestration.
|
|
And we even need to think, okay, are there some countries who are specializing, you know, say you want to do [carbon] sequestration.
|
|
Some of these scenarios require a role for cutting-edge carbon sequestration technologies that are currently in their infancy, including direct air capture.
|
|
Della Vigna floated the idea of a "long-term solution" of renewables, gas fired power generation and some level of carbon dioxide sequestration.
|
|
After that, sequestration is done and Congress can go back to setting funding levels in a budget resolution like it used to do.
|
|
The researchers measured the concentrations of barium and opal, which are respectively associated with organic carbon sequestration and the abundance of marine diatoms.
|
|
Between 2003 and 2015, it lost 22% of its capacity to fund research due to budget cuts, inflation and the 2013 budget sequestration.
|
|
These chemical fingerprints, he explains, will help scientists understand how important ecological processes like carbon sequestration will be impacted by rising sea levels.
|
|
Back in 2013, sequestration forced funding cuts to the USDA that resulted in the agency suspending a number of statistical estimates and reports.
|
|
This will unleash innovation and lead to the development of less costly carbon capture technologies, allowing for sequestration to be more widely used.
|
|
The technology — known as carbon capture and sequestration, or C.C.S.— is an important but challenging potential solution to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
|
|
Sequestration has woefully underfunded our military at a time when we are asking more of our men and women defending this great nation.
|
|
Its budget rose at a fast clip through the 1990s, stalled in the 473s, and then dipped with sequestration budget cuts in 2013.
|
|
His $1.7 trillion plan supports carbon capture and sequestration, a technique to bury carbon and help utilities transition to cleaner sources of energy.
|
|
The result was "sequestration" and the Budget Control Act, which mandated sharp cuts in discretionary spending equally split between military and nonmilitary programs.
|
|
Biden's $1.7 trillion plan supports carbon capture and sequestration, a technique to bury carbon and help utilities transition to cleaner sources of energy.
|
|
Farmers can help keep carbon out of the atmosphere through a process called carbon sequestration, a natural result of the right farming practices.
|
|
In addition to reducing carbon emissions, many Earth system scientists think we should study how to augment this natural sequestration and related processes.
|
|
The captured carbon that Stripe has committed to purchasing could come from three types of carbon sequestration that it outlined in the announcement.
|
|
After all, if CCU is competing in the mitigation challenge (rather than on sequestration), then it is competing against other forms of mitigation.
|
|
The request for defense spending is well beyond last year's $619 billion, defying "sequestration" spending caps set in the 2011 Budget Control Act.
|
|
The registration deals with a tax break for companies that utilize carbon capture and sequestration technology, according to forms filed with the Senate.
|
|
As well as the mangroves increasing carbon sequestration, he says the communities involved in the planting have seen their fisheries become more productive.
|
|
Would the government manager, wrestling with budget shortfalls, sequestration and now rescission (cutting the budget after its approval) dare to make the purchase?
|
|
That would have slashed support for Climate Science Centers, which study the regional effects of climate change, and for research on carbon sequestration.
|
|
They suggest a sequestration potential of 200 GtC, but (incorrectly) suggest it would represent two-thirds of all emissions from human activities so far.
|
|
Patty Murray in 2013, the two parties have compromised on raising the spending caps in order to prevent these sequestration spending cuts nobody wants.
|
|
The other potential negative emissions technology is DAC + carbon sequestration, which can move carbon from the air (the biosphere) into the ground (the geosphere).
|
|
The defense spending bill also conforms to the House's budget outline, but it violates the Budget Control Act spending caps commonly known as sequestration.
|
|
Given the effects of the long war on terror and sequestration, the United States is not prepared to fight a conventional second Korean War.
|
|
Among the concerns about sequestration is that carbon dioxide in gaseous or liquid form that is pumped underground might escape back to the atmosphere.
|
|
This was the National Sequestration Education Center, a joint venture of the Illinois geological survey, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Richland Community College.
|
|
The GOP has forced cuts to the narrow slice of the budget that finances other domestic spending, recently through the 2011 budget sequestration law.
|
|
Our current politics, under sequestration, ensures that this remains the case: Any increase in domestic spending results in still more spending for the Pentagon.
|
|
Unless lawmakers reach a deal on spending, about $120 billion in automatic cuts to defense and domestic programs would go into effect under sequestration.
|
|
Sequestration, which capped the discretionary portions of the federal budgets, further slowed the recovery and constrained the Obama administration's ability to influence the economy.
|
|
Such legislative deal making can create surprise consequences, and the municipal securities market can adapt, having endured previous tax reforms, sequestration and economic recessions.
|
|
The detention facility's sequestration of detainee art would prevent the detainees, without good cause, from exercising their lawful exclusive rights under the Copyright Act.
|
|
"These sudden visits with sequestration of computers and notebooks happened repeatedly over the years, making the working environment impossible," he wrote in an email.
|
|
And even if Congress does pass a law to stop the sequestration, it doesn't mean this makes the tax bill's deficit problem go away.
|
|
Second, the forest products community encourages forestland owners to invest in the forestry cycle, which ensures the sequestration of carbon out of the atmosphere.
|
|
And third, the agency's analysis excludes the Section 45Q tax credit passed by Congress, which would offer tax credits for carbon capture and sequestration.
|
|
The president's bold decision to rescue the Lima plant from the Obama budget sequestration oblivion will reap this nation benefits for years to come.
|
|
No great powers of imagination are required to grasp that the sequestration of the nation is going to stop customers from reaching post offices.
|
|
Even the word "climate" itself appears to have now fallen out of favor, along with phrases like carbon, greenhouse gas emissions, adaptation and sequestration.
|
|
If you want to continue to get the military refurbished and rebuild it, then we need to end the last two years of sequestration.
|
|
Mr. Trump said during his campaign that he would toss out the military budget caps known as sequestration, opening the door to more spending.
|
|
Military funding under sequestration is constantly blamed for a force that is too small, short on preparedness and scrounging to afford new weapons systems.
|
|
" Mattis asserted that the continuing resolutions, coupled with sequestration, "blocked new programs, prevented service growth, stalled industry initiative and placed troops at greater risk.
|
|
Congress has become adept at finding ways to deliver Pentagon dollars, even under the specter of sequestration, and they're likely to do it again.
|
|
Lawmakers need to raise the budget caps in order to avoid across-the-board spending cuts that are mandated by sequestration. http://bit.ly/2E6900uBVZ.
|
|
Does Sky involve more carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) — the controversial technique of pulling carbon from pollution smokestacks and burying it — than other scenarios?
|
|
The nation, in my view, made a significant policy mistake by instituting the sequestration cuts as part of the 2011 Budget Control Act (BCA).
|
|
The former general also may be asked to help sway members of Congress to undo the sequestration budget caps to allow for more defense spending.
|
|
Companies are seeking to benefit from expanded tax credits enacted last year for direct carbon sequestration or use of captured CO2 in enhanced oil recovery.
|
|
The only way to make any money off sequestration is if a government is directly subsidizing it or if there's an extremely high carbon price.
|
|
Theoretically, DAC can be located anywhere, including right next to underground caverns suitable for carbon sequestration, so it could cut down on CO23 transport costs.
|
|
In 2013, as part of the budget "sequestration" deal between the Obama administration and the Congressional GOP, the NIH's budget was reduced by about 5%.
|
|
"Rather, we would anticipate a small amount of infrastructure funding to be included as part of the sequestration spending deal," Clifton said in a note.
|
|
Kori Schake of the Hoover Institution says that with sequestration budgets caps now more or less abandoned, future defence budgets will be under less strain.
|
|
Trump has said he wants to end the budget caps, known as sequestration, for defense spending, but he will likely face opposition from fiscal conservatives.
|
|
This has its upsides for sure—increased carbon sequestration, for one—but it also means that less water will wind up back in our aquifers.
|
|
If you look at the combination of sequestration and the government shutdown, you are looking at likely over a million jobs lost as a result.
|
|
Shutdowns and sequestration have made it impossible for the FAA to plan and make the major long-term investments it needs to implement new technology.
|
|
The company also argues that it is working to curb climate change through research into carbon capture and sequestration and advanced biofuels made from algae.
|
|
Mulvaney met with McConnell on Thursday to discuss spending and amid growing concerns on Capitol Hill about avoiding across-the-board cuts known as sequestration.
|
|
Time is running short, as lawmakers are seeking to prevent automatic across-the-board spending cuts, known as sequestration, from taking effect later this month.
|
|
Such systems, known as carbon capture and sequestration, are currently so costly that utilities simply prefer to replace coal-fired plants with gas-fired ones.
|
|
We know that natural gas, at least without carbon capture and sequestration, is not compatible with a zero-carbon future and must eventually be eliminated.
|
|
Without a deal to raise the caps, continuing spending at current levels would trigger sequestration, or across-the-board spending cuts, starting in late January.
|
|
For example, the Amazon is, for now, a major source of carbon sequestration—it pulls carbon from the air and stores it in the soil.
|
|
Also, some pinned the blame on the lack of stable funding due to sequestration for some of the training and readiness issues involving the Navy.
|
|
And in 2016, the Swiss authorities confiscated more cars as part of a corruption investigation involving President Obiang and ordered the sequestration of a yacht.
|
|
If you save a tree from being cut down, which is called carbon sequestration, the carbon that the tree holds is saved from being emitted.
|
|
Tom Cotton of Arkansas said Monday on the Senate floor when there was an insufficient quorum to take up the sequestration repeal measure he proposed.
|
|
But if Congress continues to kick the can down the road past late January, automatic, across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration kick in.
|
|
David Ige signed two laws that aim to reduce greenhouse emissions and mitigate climate change through carbon sequestration, a process to store atmospheric carbon monoxide.
|
|
Lawmakers also need to get a deal to lift the budget caps before mid-January if they want to avoid automatic spending cuts under sequestration.
|
|
He has ended the sequestration of funds for the Defense Department, begun rebuilding our military, and overseen the collapse of ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
|
|
Without a permanent spending bill by mid-January, automatic spending cuts known as sequestration will become law and cut into the defense and nondefense budgets.
|
|
The Pentagon has gotten temporary relief from the caps through a bipartisan budget agreement, but Defense Department leaders have voiced concern about returning to sequestration.
|
|
According to Hourihan, when the NIH's budget dropped 5 percent from sequestration cuts, they had to cut around 700 individual grants (out of about 9,000).
|
|
The discovery is important because, if it works in living plants, it would present a carbon sequestration strategy that's more in the reach of normal people.
|
|
But sequestration shouldn't be replaced with a blank check; any additional defense spending, whether on military personnel or hardware, should fit within a broader strategic concept.
|
|
Defense hawks, meanwhile, are arguing that the $54 billion dollar hike in defense spending is not enough after years of budget sequestration that capped military funding.
|
|
As for the omnibus bill, she said voting for it was essential to end the cuts to defense spending as a result of sequestration in 2013.
|
|
Natural gas works well for that, but getting to a zero-carbon grid means getting rid of natural gas (unless it adds carbon capture and sequestration).
|
|
Sequestration, which took effect in 2013, puts $1.2 trillion in automatic across-the-board cuts in effect over 10 years, with half of them targeting defense.
|
|
Archaeologists working in the Amazon also believe that the loss of native populations led to increased forest growth, and additional sequestration of carbon from the atmosphere.
|
|
Ecofys thinks CCS applications will mostly be confined to industry and the rest can be taken care of by "afforestation, reforestation, and soil carbon sequestration," i.e.
|
|
Thanks to their careful efforts at sequestration, there hasn't been a mite outbreak in years, although hives do fail from time to time for other reasons.
|
|
The spending caps imposed by the Budget Control Act, also known as "sequestration," was not a real spending cut in the true sense of the term.
|
|
Rapid conversion of the CO2 means that a project would probably have to be monitored for a far shorter time than a more conventional sequestration site.
|
|
No deal has been reached on raising sequestration caps to prevent drastic cuts to agency budgets for the upcoming fiscal year or raising the debt ceiling.
|
|
Years of reduced funding, sequestration, and the threat of Base Relocations and Closures have decimated our military and hampered our readiness and capabilities as threats arise.
|
|
Until this week, McConnell — a veteran of past shutdowns, fiscal crises and sequestration escape hatches — had waded into the current fight only to block House bills.
|
|
FAA leadership had to make decisions to meet the budget restrictions of sequestration, rather than making the correct choices based on operational reasons and safety concerns.
|
|
Conservatives are upset that the October budget deal signed by President Obama and congressional leaders raised spending levels, wiping out the automatic cuts known as sequestration.
|
|
In his interview with CNN, Northam praised Trump for calling for an end to the spending cuts know as sequestration and pledged to work with Trump.
|
|
They're also the only programs for the poor to be slashed under the sequestration imposed in February 2013, which has been limiting discretionary spending ever since.
|
|
"It's because of a thing called sequestration, and our failure over the last eight years to make sure our military is prepared, equipped, trained," McCain said.
|
|
Hallett also said things got much worse for CDC and the GDD program when the Tea Party conservatives came into Congress and, later, due to sequestration.
|
|
Trump has promised again and again to protect Medicare, and it's always been unlikely Republicans would like an across-the-board sequestration to go into effect.
|
|
They aren't allowed to do this through budget reconciliation — meaning Republicans would need to get at least 60 votes in the Senate to mitigate this sequestration.
|
|
They point out that in 20133, when the legislatively mandated budget cuts known as sequestration hit HUD, more than 100,000 renters nationwide lost their housing support.
|
|
The sequestration process would cost roughly $100 per ton, which in Occidental's model could be offset in part by the increased oil production it would enable.
|
|
And without the grand bargain attempt, you don't get the massive cuts of sequestration that really have shrunk government across the board for four years now.
|
|
The company has also said it is making efforts to curb climate change by studying carbon-capture and sequestration technology and advanced biofuels made from algae.
|
|
Another part of the work will be pulling CO2 out of the air and burying it in geologic reservoirs, so-called carbon capture and sequestration (CCS).
|
|
Soil naturally absorbs carbon from the atmosphere through a process known as sequestration which not only reduce harmful greenhouse gases but also creates more fertile soil.
|
|
If passed as is, war funding would run out just as the Bipartisan Budget Act is expiring and sequestration, or the Budget Control Act, comes back.
|
|
And that spending is subject to limits imposed by the Office of Management and Budget, along with "black swan" events like budget sequestration and government shutdowns.
|
|
"Clean and zero-emission" specifically uses "and" to make room for both renewables and nuclear power, or even, say, biomass electricity with carbon capture and sequestration.
|
|
"Clean and zero-emission" specifically uses "and" to make room for both renewables and nuclear power, or even, say, biomass electricity with carbon capture and sequestration.
|
|
Tropical forests cover up to 10 percent of the land on Earth; the global climate system depends on them for rainfall and carbon sequestration and storage.
|
|
EJ groups are highly suspicious toward many of the very efforts that labor views as essential, among them nuclear power and carbon capture and sequestration (CCS).
|
|
House Republicans are building a climate legislative plan (with an eye on covering their electoral backs) based on three tenets: carbon sequestration, clean energy and conservation.
|
|
"When you're staring down the barrel of potentially real and meaningful regulation, suddenly the industry has a solution, and it's carbon capture and sequestration," Muffett said.
|
|
The repeal of the budget caps was discussed by lawmakers during nomination hearings but as of now there's been no legislation presented to formally repeal the sequestration.
|
|
"Land is a source of greenhouse gases if it is used to farm fertilizer through sequestration [carbon storage]," said study author Prof Andrew Balmford, from Cambridge University.
|
|
The expectation is that any deal would raise spending caps and stave off $120 billion in automatic spending cuts to domestic and military programs required by sequestration.
|
|
Nobody wants sequestration, and this will be the last spending caps deal Congress needs to pass to avert it before sequestration's statutory authority runs out in 2022.
|
|
In a statement, Yarmuth said his party would focus on stopping automatic cuts, known as sequestration, and spending reductions proposed by the Trump administration earlier this year.
|
|
On Wednesday, Trump proposed ending defense sequestration caps and increasing the size of every military branch in a plan that borrowed heavily from a Heritage Foundation proposal.
|
|
That number is likely to increase, he said, as multinational institutions and wealthy nations start incorporating carbon sequestration incentives into existing aid to farmers in poor countries.
|
|
GRAHAM BLASTS SEQUESTRATION: Several prominent defense leaders converged on the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) annual conference Monday to talk the future of national security.
|
|
The bill moves the current Choice funding account from mandatory spending to discretionary spending, but doesn't protect it from automatic sequestration cuts when the legislation takes effect.
|
|
Pentagon leaders say those cuts came on top of $487 billion in previous cuts to projected spending over the same period under a process known as sequestration.
|
|
He said the agency received those kinds of routine increases in years past, before funding plateaued and was then affected by across the board cuts, called sequestration.
|
|
It's tempting to explain away these employee sentiments as a response to the sequestration and shutdown showdowns after Republicans took back control of Congress from the Democrats.
|
|
They have tried to design guardrails and mechanisms forcing action to make Congress do its job through commissions, super committees, budget caps, sequestration, and on and on.
|
|
If lawmakers fail to do so, even a funding extension would result in sequestration — across the board cuts to meet the budget cap requirements — in late January.
|
|
The plan did not call for quitting fossil fuels instead investing money in carbon capture and sequestration that could give a lifeline to coal and gas plants.
|
|
The omnibus bill would increase domestic spending by $128 billion over the 2011 sequestration budget caps and increase military spending by $160 billion over the budget caps.
|
|
A simpler alternative is mandatory sequestration: requiring fossil-fuel companies to capture and safely dispose of a fraction of the carbon dioxide that they extract or import.
|
|
In 2013, government spending was put on a destructively tight leash by sequestration, automatic spending caps that were meant to spark a grand bargain on the budget.
|
|
Not only do they include kidnapping, sequestration, rape, and murder punishable by national laws, but they also involve the most serious crimes as defined by international laws.
|
|
Current research does provide viable methods to identify, scale, and estimate blue-carbon sequestration value around sample sites, and their vulnerability to natural forces and human activity.
|
|
These technologies (at least the first two) are established and relatively low energy; they could potentially result in carbon sequestration on the scale of billions of tons.
|
|
So doing carbon sequestration out of a natural gas [power plant] flue is a lot easier than out of a coal flue, because there isn't the sulfuric acid.
|
|
It stayed within the bounds of an agreement reached between the White House and Congress last year that lifted mandatory "sequestration" cuts on both defense and domestic spending.
|
|
Plenty of people who are convinced of the urgency of climate change disagree that nuclear power and carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) should be taken off the table.
|
|
By 2050, or whenever we start burying carbon in earnest, DAC is likely to be considerably cheaper — though sequestration itself will remain a titanic pain in the ass.
|
|
Four years ago, a sinister-sounding process called sequestration came into effect, triggering automatic spending cuts that scythed social and defense spending beloved by Democrats and Republican lawmakers.
|
|
The defense cap for 2018 is $549 billion, and if the cap is not changed, the Pentagon would be subject to across-the-board cuts known as sequestration.
|
|
ON TAP FOR TOMORROW: A House Armed Services subcommittee will hold a hearing on the effects of sequestration and continuing resolutions on the Marine Corps at 85033 a.m.
|
|
I'm not arguing that sequestration and year after year of tardy appropriations or continuing resolutions are solely to blame for what happened to these ships and their crews.
|
|
Budget deal, shutdown deadline Lawmakers are under pressure to get a deal to increase the budget caps and prevent automatic across-the-board spending cuts, known as sequestration.
|
|
Without a deal to raise the caps, continuing spending at current levels would trigger sequestration, or across-the-board spending cuts, starting in late January: http://bit.ly/6900A4g5iP.
|
|
Shutdowns quite literally turn federal civil servants, who do crucial work for modest pay (especially under budget sequestration and the current pay freeze), into pawns in congressional politics.
|
|
And the upcoming appropriations cycle has the potential to be particularly complex and contentious, because the Budget Control Act sequestration caps spring back into effect for GFY 2020.
|
|
Putting that much in the base budget would require Congress to change the budget cap law or else the Pentagon would face steep automatic cuts known as sequestration.
|
|
GOP defense hawks, who argue the military is facing a readiness crisis under budget caps known as sequestration, are fighting for an $2628 billion increase in defense spending.
|
|
Higher prices for carbon-based fuels are needed in countries like the United States to depress demand and encourage investments in nuclear power and carbon capture and sequestration.
|
|
Yet two weeks after the 2012 elections, the supercommittee disbanded without a deal, triggering sequestration — a grim finale for a budget process that started with such high hopes.
|
|
"Eight years of continuing resolutions, including a year of sequestration, have driven additional costs and time into just about everything that we do," Chief of Naval Operations Adm.
|
|
She's also been working to extend tax credits for carbon dioxide sequestration to bring new technology to coal generation and on efforts to combat human and sex trafficking.
|
|
In addition to a possible shutdown, across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration will go into place if Congress can't reach a deal to raise budget caps.
|
|
But a new U.S. law — part of the big February federal spending deal — expands tax incentives for direct sequestration or use of captured CO2 in enhanced oil recovery.
|
|
Consider this scenario: Biomass is harvested in Cameroon, it is exported to the UK for combustion and power, and the captured CO2 is exported to Norway for sequestration.
|
|
Read More: Prehistoric Trees Could 'Future-Proof' Forests Against Climate Change Those forests are hugely important, not just economically, but for "water purification and carbon sequestration," Fei continued.
|
|
In Texas, Perry was a key advocate for carbon capture and sequestration/storage (CCS), methane capture and use, and a voluntary cap-and-trade program through an exchange.
|
|
To this day, there are "centrist" Democratic groups pushing the line that embracing natural gas (and nuclear, and carbon sequestration) is the "moderate" road forward on climate change.
|
|
It was on those terms, for example, that stiff budget cuts known as "sequestration" were partly reversed — with offsets to avoid raising the deficit over the ensuing decade.
|
|
The Navy's downsizing in the quarter century since the Cold War ended also is blamed for the current state along with readiness challenges from budget caps from sequestration.
|
|
It should also commit to fiscal responsibility by enacting a statutory limit on all federal spending, enforced by sequestration (without exemptions!), with action-motivating deadlines and enforcement measures.
|
|
The agreement increased military and non-military spending limits by $320 billion above the budget caps that would have taken effect if Congress had failed to stop sequestration.
|
|
The bipartisan budget package increases military and non-military spending by $320 billion above the budget caps that would have taken effect if Congress failed to stop sequestration.
|
|
"Bamboo can be harnessed to reverse land degradation, slow deforestation, combat climate change through carbon sequestration, and boost rural livelihoods through the creation of jobs and income," added Friederich.
|
|
The process also costs a lot less than other carbon sequestration plans, said Reykjavik Energy's Edda Aradottir, one of the co-author's of the study, in the same release.
|
|
We have invested nearly $7 billion since 2000 on lower-emissions initiatives such as energy efficiency, cogeneration, flare reduction, carbon capture and sequestration and research into next-generation biofuels.
|
|
Instead, the White House says it can offset those cuts to the Pentagon by parking a huge amount of money in a controversial slush fund that sequestration can't touch.
|
|
It is far more likely that unrelenting operational demands on forward-deployed vessels and several years of Pentagon spending distorted by budget caps and sequestration have taken their toll.
|
|
"The sequestration of national defense is a senseless budget tactic that continues to threaten the readiness of our military and our national security," Turner said in a statement Wednesday.
|
|
With the level of carbon already emitted, many—including Bastin—agree that we need to combine both emissions reductions and carbon sequestration in order to effectively slow climate change.
|
|
I've covered more than my share of shutdowns (to say nothing of debt ceiling crises, sequestration deadlines, and assorted other high-stakes congressional ridiculousness) and I know their rhythms.
|
|
The company says the projects have nothing to do with recent public outcry over its climate change disclosures, but are part of research into carbon sequestration and alternative fuels.
|
|
The GOP-driven budget sequestration in 2013 forced the federal workforce, including veterans, to take pay cuts; it also forced many active-duty servicemembers to leave the service early.
|
|
And siting a sequestration project in or near the ocean could potentially solve the water problem at the same time, as the researchers say seawater would work just fine.
|
|
The cuts stem mainly from the 2000 Budget Control Act, better known as the sequestration law, which ended the debt ceiling crisis that threatened to shut down the government.
|
|
We're also calling for economizing within the farm bill for higher priorities, especially agriculture research on looming nutrition threats and promising carbon sequestration measures and expanding much needed broadband.
|
|
Putting that much in the base budget would require Congress to change the budget cap law or else the Pentagon would face steep automatic cuts known as sequestration. Sen.
|
|
However, the AIRR Act would tear the FAA in two and leaves remaining functions, including safety oversight and certification programs, vulnerable to future budget cuts, sequestration and government shutdowns.
|
|
Another obstacle is the lack of an agreed-upon system for measuring carbon sequestration in soil, which will be required as the basis for any payments, Mr. Toensmeier said.
|
|
First up on lawmakers' daunting to-do list is to reach a bipartisan agreement on boosting budget caps and preventing automatic across-the-board spending cuts, known as sequestration.
|
|
From a budgetary baseline based on the 2011 "sequestration" deal between the GOP House and former President Obama, the Trump budget piles on defense dollars while further cutting nondefense.
|
|
Sequestration, which created caps on both military and nonmilitary spending, was imposed by the bipartisan Budget Control Act of 2011 after lawmakers failed to reach a compromise spending deal.
|
|
Woolsey, who served as director of the CIA from 28500 to 6900 and describes himself as a lifelong Democrat, praised Trump's commitment to ending defense budget cuts from sequestration.
|
|
They argued that allowing biomass-burning power plants to take credit for forest growth and carbon sequestration that would be happening anyway would be a major carbon accounting error.
|
|
In 2014, an analysis of 16 studies in Africa and the Americas found that growing cacao in the shade helped improve biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and nutrients in the soil.
|
|
Obama and Boehner agreed to the 2011 Budget Control Act, which matched a $2.1 trillion increase in the debt ceiling with automatic spending cuts that became known as sequestration.
|
|
"A military strained by 2200 years of war and sequestration doesn't need this," tweeted David Lapan, a former Homeland Security spokesman for the Trump administration and a former Marine.
|
|
If carbon-based materials could be substituted for steel on any real scale, it could mean billions of tons of reduced emissions, not to mention effectively permanent carbon sequestration.
|
|
The health of the central African rainforests has global consequences as they are the planet's second largest carbon sequestration zone - which means they soak up carbon, slowing climate change.
|
|
On the other hand, carbon sequestration in soil and vegetation is an effective way to pull carbon from the atmosphere that in some ways is the opposite of geoengineering.
|
|
But that was the same promise made about the 2013 sequestration cuts, which ultimately did occur because a later Congress proved unable to come up with an alternative plan.
|
|
House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled proposals focused on carbon capture and sequestration, the first of three parts of their environmental plan that rivals a recently released plan from House Democrats.
|
|
Looking at the carbon sequestration potential alone may not be enough to make that case, particularly since most countries don't have a mechanism that rewards taking in carbon dioxide emissions.
|
|
So DAC, via A2F, has a plausible (albeit highly speculative) short-term, mid-term, and long-term plan: fuels for transportation, then fuels for energy storage, then carbon for sequestration.
|
|
If would require the UK to boost its near- and midterm targets, rapidly accelerate all existing decarbonization efforts, and take some politically unpopular steps like building giant carbon sequestration facilities.
|
|
Many members of Congress hoped that the BCA-established "super committee" would reach a deficit reduction deal and that the 2013 sequestration and subsequently reduced budget caps would never happen.
|
|
His biggest accomplishments were budget sequestration, which everyone hates, and a modest agreement he struck at the end of his career with Nancy Pelosi to fix Medicare's physician reimbursement formula.
|
|
During the Obama years, the Pentagon has been consumed with fighting several wars and low-level conflicts all over world, while struggling with sequestration and a rapidly changing geopolitical environment.
|
|
Instead, the goal was to demonstrate the feasibility of an only slightly less revolutionary technology—carbon capture and storage (or, as it is sometimes referred to, carbon capture and sequestration).
|
|
The report lists 10 types of technologies the private sector and government should prioritize, including storage and battery technologies, advanced nuclear reactors and management of carbon dioxide emissions, including sequestration.
|
|
Advocates for human needs breathed an audible sigh of relief this past December when Congress reached a budget agreement that prevented the next round of sequestration cuts from taking place.
|
|
Sequestration cuts go even deeper – that's why it's so important that Congress limited them this year and next, and should quickly prevent them from coming back in the years beyond.
|
|
But ultimately, a strong national defense and a strong economy both depend on Congress equitably resolving the Budget Control Act spending caps and sequestration, which is outside this Committee's jurisdiction.
|
|
Sequestration, when it was ushered in, was meant to use draconian cuts to both defense and nondefense discretionary spending as a cudgel to force Congress to compromise on budget cuts.
|
|
Also looming are across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration, which will go into place in mid-January if Congress does not reach a deal to raise budget caps.
|
|
He argues that discretionary spending, which accounts for only a third of the federal budget and was subject to cuts known as sequestration during President Obama's tenure, is under control.
|
|
Of the 21 gas plants on the list, he sees profits from using the credit for 12 of them, though only 5 of them would see profits via direct sequestration.
|
|
"I don't believe that there really exists a certifying tool that clearly identifies 'success' in carbon sequestration or environmental virtue," said Randall Grahm, proprietor of Bonny Doon Vineyard in California.
|
|
The 2011 Budget Control Act imposed tough spending restrictions, known as sequestration, which are set to impose cuts of $2 billion in defense and $3 billion in nondefense in 2018.
|
|
Firms researching zero-emission energy and carbon sequestration hope to create a market (or are betting that governments will eventually do the job for them by getting serious about emissions).
|
|
" In the 1630 plague, told so searingly by Manzoni, the sick were sent to a complex called the Lazzaretto, and "dread of sequestration and the Lazzaretto sharpened every one's wits.
|
|
A tree planted this year won't make much of a difference in terms of carbon sequestration over the next decade, a period many scientists say is critical for climate action.
|
|
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently launched "10 Building Blocks" to reduce emissions from agriculture and forestry by 2025 and create incentives for carbon sequestration, but questions about implementation remain.
|
|
The innovative emerging technology companies that are developing these and other carbon utilization solutions face an uphill battle because federal policy provides more support for carbon sequestration than carbon utilization.
|
|
And the goalpost of net-zero emissions doesn't mean halting the use of fossil fuels, but it does mean compensating for their emissions with technologies like carbon capture and sequestration.
|
|
" But Reed said he doesn't see change coming without the issue being a focus in the presidential campaign, because the average person doesn't pay attention to terms such as "sequestration.
|
|
The caps, known as sequestration, cut defense spending by $85033 billion over 10 years, on top of roughly $500 billion the Pentagon was already slated to take during that time.
|
|
The legacy of spending gaps, government shutdowns and sequestration is an underfunded U.S. military, ill-prepared to face the most complex and dangerous national security environment in our nation's history.
|
|
The 2013 sequestration (spending reductions that would have resulted had the original BCA caps been maintained) would have reduced federal spending on drugs by 5 percent, or about $209 million.
|
|
If we really want to avoid 1.5 degrees, and we can't rely on large-scale carbon sequestration, then the global community has to zero out its carbon emissions by 2026.
|
|
Several analyses of carbon sequestration efforts estimate that with current limitations and in the best case scenario, we'll only likely to recover about 50 or 20173 percent of this lost carbon.
|
|
It's that they aren't getting to fly, partly because the last round of automatic budget cuts known as sequestration cut flying hours and grounded nearly one-third of Air Force planes.
|
|
Failing that, the executive should have clear rules to follow: automatic triggers established in law, in the spirit of but ideally more nuanced and thoughtful than across-the-board sequestration procedures.
|
|
While military budget cuts and sequestration have hurt the economy here in recent decades, some 75 years ago the hungry wartime machine needed manpower, and womanpower, to fill its depleted ranks.
|
|
"Once a Republican held the White House, Republicans simply abandoned the whole idea that sequestration, or anything at all, needed to be paid for," wrote New York's Jonathan Chait last year.
|
|
To help pay for his buildup, Trump pledged to seek congressional approval for lifting caps on defense spending that were part of "sequestration" legislation that imposed cut spending across the board.
|
|
"We have to move away from sequestration, and one of the issues that has been illustrated by your testimony is not just the limits on spending, it's the uncertainty," said Sen.
|
|
The purpose of the timber at Alder Springs is not lumber, but carbon sequestration, in which the trees absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, 65,000 tons a year, Mr. Bewley estimates.
|
|
The Bonn challenge website estimates an economic benefit of the reforestation effort at $121 million for the province, in terms of carbon sequestration, better watershed improvement and future sustainable wood supplies.
|
|
"I think $640 is what we need to address the problems that have developed from sequestration and that tempo of operations over the years," he said, referring to automatic spending cuts.
|
|
Katz has created a rough template for the two-week-plus-sequestration-of-the-most-vulnerable strategy and how to think about coronavirus risk stratification, and different responses, on his website.
|
|
When sequestration hit in 85033, defense budget reductions led about 17,000 firms to exit defense contracting, reducing the military's vendor base by about 20 percent, and these firms haven't yet returned.
|
|
Even so, he will face difficulty in getting such a proposal through Congress, where the threat of mandatory spending cuts known as sequestration has acted as a brake on military spending.
|
|
The military budget did shrink slightly during the Obama administration as the United States pulled out of combat operations, and because of the budget restrictions imposed by Congress known as sequestration.
|
|
In his remarks, the secretary did not refer to climate change or talk about paying farmers for carbon sequestration or offer a list of things his department would do to help.
|
|
Despite soil's connection to climate change, carbon sequestration in soil was never mentioned in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which set down broad greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for the world's nations.
|
|
And yet, as many outlets reported, the costs associated with his frequent trips to Mar-a-Lago and his wife's sequestration in Trump Tower in Manhattan were quickly adding up for taxpayers.
|
|
The burden of sequestration for this Philly-spirited team of 18 was made lighter by the camaraderie of the group and the support and graciousness of the sheriffs and other court staff.
|
|
The first is bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS), which involves burning biomass (plants or biowaste) in a thermal power plant, capturing CO2 from the exhaust stream, and burying the CO2.
|
|
But this story conveniently ignores both the problems with carbon capture and sequestration technologies, as well as the history of government regulation and financing needed to make environmental and public health gains.
|
|
"[The rollback]'s an international signal that we're not taking carbon capture and sequestration and reducing impacts from coal seriously," said Jay Duffy, an associate attorney at the Clean Air Task Force.
|
|
There are still major hurdles to passing a new ISIS war authorization, the new Russia sanctions have stalled with the House, and sequestration spending caps are still looming over the spending process.
|
|
The budget is likely to stay within the confines of an agreement reached between the White House and Congress last year that lifted mandatory "sequestration" cuts on both defense and domestic spending.
|
|
The cuts are enforced through a budgetary process known as sequestration, which uses across-the-board cuts to lower funding to levels established by caps on both defense and non-defense spending.
|
|
Complicating things: If Congress doesn't approve a new law setting limits on spending by late January, automatic spending cuts known as sequestration are set to be imposed under an earlier budget law.
|
|
He consistently pushed to raise caps on defense spending, and played a role in persuading GOP leaders to undo the automatic cuts known as sequestration implemented by the 2011 Budget Control Act.
|
|
If they don't get the gag order granted, prosecutors want a semi-sequestration of jurors to protect them from hearing or reading Shkreli's comments during his trial on charges of securities fraud.
|
|
"To get to our goal of 100 percent sustainable energy, we will not rely on any false solutions like nuclear, geoengineering, carbon capture and sequestration, or trash incinerators," according to his plan.
|
|
The last time Congress focused on addressing the debt, Congress passed the Budget Control Act (BCA) which resulted in budget caps and sequestration, leaving many children's programs severely underfunded to this day.
|
|
This year, the company enrolled 250 million acres of U.S. farmland for its carbon sequestration initiative with promises to pay farmers $2000 per metric ton of carbon they sink into their soil.
|
|
Consequently, the fallback axe, known as sequestration (designed primarily as a scare tactic to force a committee solution) fell, producing massive across-the-board spending cuts in defense and domestic spending alike.
|
|
It also might mean DOE's Office of Fossil Energy will no longer help utilities build carbon capture and sequestration technology for coal (as DOE did with the Petra Nova plant in Texas).
|
|
The paragraph in Joe Biden's climate plan about carbon capture and sequestration includes language that is remarkably similar to items published previously by the Blue Green Alliance and the Carbon Capture Coalition.
|
|
According to Matt Hourihan — who analyzes budget issues for the AAAS — when the NIH's budget dropped 5 percent from sequestration cuts, they had to cut around 700 individual grants (out of about 9,000).
|
|
Of course, by then other emission-free energy technologies, such as batteries, hydrogen, and the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel plants, could be better and cheaper than splitting nuclei.
|
|
Mandela's grandson Zondwa Mandela, another former Aurora director and other people involved with the company will face sequestration proceedings at a later date, where their assets could be taken and sold, Solidarity said.
|
|
Finally, 70-year-old suspect known as Christiane G is charged with being head of complicity of robbery with weapon in an organized gang, complicity of abduction and sequestration, and possession of ammunition.
|
|
The 1985 law, which aimed to curb the federal budget deficit, was amended through the Budget Control Act of 2011, which created "sequestration" spending caps that were invoked in cutting the drug reimbursements.
|
|
The rationale for moving money into the war budget is that it's exempt from spending caps, which if violated would trigger an across-the-board cut to the Pentagon budget, known as sequestration.
|
|
"The proper form of cattle management does some wonderful things for the planet in terms of carbon sequestration and becomes a net neutral to the environment instead of a net negative," Wooten says.
|
|
In September 2012, Congress passed a six-month CR lasting until March 27, 2013, then summarily passed another six-month bill, at the very time agencies were responding to the effects of sequestration.
|
|
The committee is tasked with looking into different agricultural and aquacultural practices that can be implemented to promote carbon sequestration (the process of storing atmospheric carbon monoxide in order to mitigate climate change).
|
|
The budget sticks by the spending levels set by last fall's deal with the White House, which adds $30 billion in defense and non-defense spending and ends years of cuts from sequestration.
|
|
Mike Rounds made it clear that Americans need to understand the severity of the problem, particularly if the government should come under mandatory budget cuts called sequestration, as it last did in 2013.
|
|
But the livestock also convert and degrade lands, radically reducing carbon sequestration — the natural ability of the biosphere to soak up atmospheric carbon — creating an even greater climate problem than methane emissions themselves.
|
|
Reefs are also incredibly important to humans, supporting fishing and tourism industries, and providing ecosystem services from water purification to carbon sequestration, whose total value has been estimated at a staggering $172 billion.
|
|
More broadly, partition resulting from war has a deservedly dubious reputation: In Korea and Germany, for instance, it has meant the brutal sequestration of large populations and laid tripwires for future major wars.
|
|
With a flood of applications, and the Department's staff shrunken by the effects of sequestration and continuous pressure on domestic discretionary appropriations, even absurd claims have a good chance of sliding through unchallenged.
|
|
According to retired Rear Admiral and CNN analyst John Kirby, lawmakers were temporarily denied CODEL requests to war zones during President Barack Obama's tenure due to sequestration and security concerns from military officials.
|
|
Chevron and other large American oil companies are investing in carbon capture and sequestration to bury greenhouse gases or produce new fuels, though such technologies are expensive and unproven on a large scale.
|
|
The two flirt while discussing how to get out of jury duty before they're both selected for a murder case that requires sequestration at an Econo Lodge near their homes in Central Florida.
|
|
Growing biofuel crops and coupling them with carbon capture and sequestration could also be a way to check off multiple boxes at the same time, providing energy and potentially negative greenhouse gas emissions.
|
|
It can also come from using bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration, where plants pull carbon dioxide from the air and scrubbers prevent the carbon from the resulting biofuels from reaching the sky.
|
|
After participating in Y Combinator in 2019, Pachama now has 23 sites in the U.S. and Latin America where scientists are working alongside the startup's technology to certify forests for carbon sequestration projects.
|
|
If Congress fails to reach a new deal and relies on another stopgap measure, the sequestration enshrined in the budget caps will kick in starting in mid-January with across-the-board cuts.
|
|
Yet Republicans could also seek to enact the additional defense funding through a war account that is not subject to sequestration — a tactic Republicans used in the latter years of the Obama administration.
|
|
He can talk for hours about carbon sequestration — the trapping of global-warming-causing gases in plant life and in the soil — or the science of the beneficial microbes that enrich his land.
|
|
There are several ways to sequester greenhouse gases, from reforestation to soil enrichment to cow backpacks, but the backbone of the envisioned negative emissions is BECCS, or bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration.
|
|
We may also see a return to the all-of-the-above energy strategy, which aims to make all forms of energy cleaner, including fossil fuels via technologies like carbon capture and sequestration.
|
|
In the next few weeks, lawmakers will have to reach a new deal over budget caps to prevent automatic spending cuts, because of a sequestration policy that Obama negotiated with Republicans in 2011.
|
|
Portman and Warner's bills are the two offerings that have garnered the most backing thus far, though Warner's office has slammed Portman's option as "sequestration by any other name," according to NBC News. Sen.
|
|
Military leaders issued similar doomsday warnings about sequestration that failed to stop the across-the-board cuts in 2013, with the military stuck in the middle of a larger fight on taxes and entitlements.
|
|
His assets, including the Ferrari, a Rolex watch and jewels that had been "financed with ... commissions" said to be the product of his crimes, were seized among items listed in a seven-page sequestration.
|
|
On Earth we already have what could be considered fledgling efforts and concepts: carbon sequestration to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide; desalination of oceans for drinking water; and even cloud seeding for rain.
|
|
Though research into more cost-effective technology for carbon capture and sequestration or solar power is helpful and necessary, a carbon price incorporating the negative externality of pollution would seem a simple first step.
|
|
Executive For years, a small chorus in Congress has bemoaned the legislative branch giving back its national security powers to the executive, from war-making to the budget caps imposed by the sequestration law.
|
|
The NIH lost 22 percent of its capacity to fund research due to budget cuts, sequestration, and inflation from 2003 to 2015, according to Zeitzer, at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
|
|
Rather than reestablishing the planned acceleration of F-35 production capacity after years of sequestration caps, the Department of Defense is requesting numbers far lower than needed in order to fund an F-15EX.
|
|
Lawmakers also hammered out a budget deal that erased the automatic spending cuts known as sequestration, lifted the debt limit and passed a $2628 billion deal that made permanent several high-profile tax breaks.
|
|
Wheeler argued that the Obama administration was requiring power plants to use costly carbon capture and sequestration technology and that by reversing the rule, businesses would have a greater ability to innovate and invest.
|
|
Its secret, of course, is inevitably discovered, and as the world's evil powers plot to extract the resources of yet another African nation, T'Challa's father is cruelly assassinated, forcing the end of Wakanda's sequestration.
|
|
But these carbon capture and sequestration projects, as they're called, have proved technically difficult to pull off: Projects like the one at question here have lagged behind schedule and cost far more than budgeted.
|
|
Both leaders stressed that the Pentagon can use every dollar given to tackle a combat readiness issue caused by sequestration, and advocated for the items in the four military services' unfunded requirements lists. Rep.
|
|
"The significant cuts in emissions envisioned by the framework and by the Paris agreement require advanced technologies, including [carbon capture and sequestration]," he said, noting technology designed to cut carbon emissions at power plants.
|
|
The divide between defense and non-defense spending in the budget process was initially created to incentivize both parties to reach a compromise in spending reductions after the Budget Control Act to avoid sequestration.
|
|
In 2013, with the imposition of mandatory budget cuts called sequestration, the Air Force ordered the museum to save money, which led the museum to shut down the buses that took visitors to the plane.
|
|
The downsizing is even more extreme than it appears because it comes on the heels of severe budget cuts that followed the Republican takeover of Congress in 22004 and the budget sequestration deal of 22.3.
|
|
The downsizing is even more extreme than it appears because it comes on the heels of severe budget cuts that followed the Republican takeover of Congress in 343 and the budget sequestration deal of 2011.
|
|
Additionally, Indigo is launching a series of challenges, calling on innovators and entrepreneurs to develop technologies for maximizing soil carbon sequestration rates, improving soil carbon measurements and reducing the need for chemical and fertilizer inputs.
|
|
The family of one of them - 26-year-old mess worker Dijo Pappachen, who joined the vessel just a month ago - said the company operating the tanker had told them about the sequestration on Friday.
|
|
Though the Obama years weren't paradise for scientists — sequestration cut divots in research budgets, and funding for the National Institutes of Health essentially flatlined, among other things — the scientific community generally felt valued and respected.
|
|
Because of the sequestration deal that was just taken off the books in this latest budget deal, Obama presided over a reduction in discretionary government spending of nearly 2% per year in his second term.
|
|
"It is clear there is now broad ranging support in both the executive and legislative branches of government for the immediate repeal of defense sequestration," they wrote in the letter that was publicly released Wednesday.
|
|
Having gone through the shutdown and cuts mandated through sequestration in 2013, Simon said he was "surprised" by the small number of individuals then who were deemed "essential" and excluded from the original furlough order.
|
|
But today, the war bird is fighting a similar funding battle to the one Kay faced in the 1960s, surviving year to year because of the strain on Air Force funds resulting from budget sequestration.
|
|
The downsizing is even more extreme than it appears because it comes on the heels of severe budget cuts that followed the Republican takeover of Congress in 2010 and the budget sequestration deal of 2011.
|
|
Between looming sequestration and the high intensity of military operations since the force's creation, it is imperative that we take the necessary steps to maintain morale and provide for our service members and their families.
|
|
To do so, Mr. Trump said he would ask Congress to eliminate so-called sequestration caps on military spending that have forced the reduction of troops — budget limits that Mr. Trump had supported until recently.
|
|
And one reason is that under the 2011 Budget Control Act, a continuing resolution would trigger automatic spending reductions known as 'sequestration' that would lead to huge cuts at the Pentagon and to domestic spending.
|
|
NFCSP provides roughly $150 million to support caregivers across the entire nation—which is, despite a growing need and costs, several million less than it was seven years ago thanks to budget cuts and sequestration.
|
|
Now, it may be that some blessed day, later in the century, we will have no more fossil fuel exhaust streams to pull CO2 from, and DAC will compete only with BECCS for sequestration funds.
|
|
The Forest at least provided food, a bathroom, a concrete shelter, and some safety: a fence had been erected and groundskeeper assigned after the carbon-sequestration tract had been converted into a Forest of Memory.
|
|
Of course, the ultimate consequence of not reaching a deal on budget caps with Republicans at all is serious — it would lead to sequestration, the dreaded across-the-board cuts to domestic and defense funding.
|
|
Critz lost reelection in November 2012 and, despite eight years of experience, Mazonkey admits he "sort of missed the boat on some of the Hill opportunities" before sequestration and a hiring freeze hit on Jan.
|
|
Historically, the U.S. government's preferred approaches to carbon mitigation have been carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), which involves the injection of CO6900 into vast underground caverns, and using CO2628 to enable enhanced oil recovery (EOR).
|
|
What's more, freed slaves can be paid to re-plant the forests they've been forced to destroy, and the cost can be covered through carbon credits sold on the basis of the new forest's carbon sequestration.
|
|
Moran, joined by commanders from the Army and Air Force, described an aging, overworked and undermanned air fleet that is feeling the weight of sequestration and furlough budget cuts implemented by Congress and the Obama administration.
|
|
The President has said that he will do away with the policy of military sequestration, which required cuts to military budgets as part of legislation designed to push Congress to agree to a deficit reduction plan.
|
|
At the end of each calendar year, OMB checks the scorecard — if it increases the estimated deficit, then OMB is required to implement an across-the-board sequestration of mandatory spending programs to offset the cost.
|
|
Since sequestration was activated in 2013, the deficit has been coming down, but new spending will reverse that trend with increased spending for defense, infrastructure, medical research, and incentives for capital spending through investment tax credits.
|
|
The CEO said he's hopeful Congress will reach a bipartisan solution to allow increased defense spending despite the Budget Control Act and sequestration, or the spending caps, that have held back increased military spending for years.
|
|
And they often make personal sacrifices and perform in difficult circumstances – sequestration, shutdowns and a political system that does not appreciate or recognize the value of their work and sees them as an easy punching bag.
|
|
Every year, politicians and pundits alike decry sequestration – the mindless, across-the-board spending cuts that would be imposed if Congress spends more than allowed under the spending caps imposed by the 85033 Budget Control Act.
|
|
Come December, Congress will need to fund the government to both avoid a shutdown and spending cuts from sequestration that would be triggered in January absent a deal, threatening both the military's budget and domestic programs.
|
|
Unfortunately, the total amount of research dollars that's been devoted to exploring carbon capture and sequestration (not at coal plants but generally) is maybe 10 million versus 60 billion a year for coal and gas exploration.
|
|
Finally, the U.S. Government (BXP's largest tenant at 4% of gross rent) and related government contractors are demanding less space due in large part to the impact of sequestration, particularly in the Washington D.C. metro area.
|
|
But it's still, on some level, a show about Jess, and the series seemed nervous about losing its main character in "Jury Duty," the episode that sent her off to a lengthy sequestration on a jury.
|
|
"To get to our goal of 100 percent sustainable energy, we will not rely on any false solutions like nuclear, geoengineering, carbon capture and sequestration, or trash incinerators," Sanders writes in the almost 14,000-word manifesto.
|
|
Trump, in his first 100 days in office, would end budget sequestration that mandates spending, including cuts in military outlays, and submit a budget that would fund construction of dozens of new warships, the adviser said.
|
|
Ending sequestration is also easier said than done, requiring the approval of Congress, where the support would be needed of Democrats staunchly opposed to giving the Pentagon more money without also spending more on social programs.
|
|
It would also fund the Defense Department through September 2018 and avert automatic sequestration cuts that would otherwise take effect, as well as extend funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for the next year.
|
|
But they have repeatedly overestimated how much leverage the threat of hitting the debt ceiling gives them — even the biggest accomplishment they have made this way, the sequestration deal of 2011, was a very mixed bag.
|
|
"Do you agree with me, when you rank the threats to the military, you'd have to put Congress and the president in that mix if we don't fix sequestration," Graham asked the chiefs, who didn't answer.
|
|
Chief Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White has been starting her semiweekly press briefings by counting the days the department has been operating under a CR, talking about the negative effects of that and the possibility of sequestration.
|
|
In addition, company executives say they expect advances in their efforts to produce advanced biofuels, better batteries and carbon capture and sequestration, technologies that could guarantee the dominance of fossil fuel energy well into the future.
|
|
Across-the-board, sequestration cuts were put in place under Obama and then-House Speaker John Boehner as an act of self-flagellation to get them to agree to a larger and more sweeping budget deal.
|
|
After Republicans took back the Congress in 22008, the U.S. was forced into sequestration, a multiyear austerity program that slashed budgets across government, even as the country was only beginning to emerge from the Great Recession.
|
|
The 2018 NDAA authorizes $634 billion in base defense spending, for such things as buying weapons and paying the troops, well above the $549 billion allowed under the "sequestration" controls set in the Budget Control Act.
|
|
That estimate was based on activities such as fishing, tourism, transport and carbon sequestration, which refers to the storage of carbon dioxide and other forms of carbon as a strategy to mitigate the effects of climate change.
|
|
These could include exhaling into a jar of water containing a pH indicator (and observing that, as the water absorbs carbon dioxide, its pH declines) or conducting experiments to understand the role of photosynthesis in carbon sequestration.
|
|
WE MAY NOT HAVE LIKED SEQUESTRATION, BUT WE DID IT. IN TERMS OF CUTTING SPENDING AND RAISING TAXES AND NARROWING IT. GUESS WHAT, IF WE NEEDED TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY, THERE'S ROOM TO SPEND, INCREASE THE DEFICIT.
|
|
This means "strengthening our economy, getting our politics to work, [and] restoring our military" following years of exhausting deployments and budget sequestration, said former National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, who served under President George W. Bush. 3.
|
|
GOP lawmakers say going through another round of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process is another step in the wrong direction when the military has been constrained for years by the so-called "sequestration" budget caps.
|
|
Fitch still considers the defense outlook to be somewhat uncertain, partly due to the Pentagon's intense focus on lowering costs, which could impact the sector's profitability, as well as the continued risk of sequestration after fiscal 2017.
|
|
If Drax were to scale up the technology, Drax Power CEO Andy Koss says a pipeline could be built to deliver the CO2 to disused North Sea oil or gas fields or aquifers, for long-term sequestration.
|
|
Right now, that means working with ranchers to improve cattle-grazing practices on American grasslands, begetting better soil health, cleaner waterways, and more carbon sequestration since healthy grasslands pull an enormous amount of carbon from the air.
|
|
Complicating matters further is the fact that if Congress doesn't approve a new law setting limits on spending by late January, automatic spending cuts known as sequestration are set to be imposed under an earlier budget law.
|
|
"We believe this level of transparency is imperative to gain public acceptance and to insure the integrity of any benefit derived from the permanent sequestration of the C02," wrote Al Collins, Occidental's senior director of regulatory affairs.
|
|
As you correctly point out, the resolution does not mention nuclear power, it does not mention carbon capture and sequestration, it does not mention banning air travel, it does not mention banning beef in the United States.
|
|
"Seems to us it's entirely a budgeting problem and all the Congress has to do is say the deficit will not be subject to sequestration," said Philip Fischer, municipal research strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
|
|
For more on how the power plant works and its (considerable) implications, I give you my explanation from 251, which holds up: I have always been skeptical about carbon capture and sequestration at fossil-fueled power plants.
|
|
Indeed, the science is showing just what a crucial role organic and agro-ecological farming practices play in reducing farm emissions and improving soil health, while fostering resiliency to droughts and floods and soil-based carbon sequestration.
|
|
The increase in funding also addresses Defense Secretary James Mattis' continued alarm over the degradation of the armed forces under the threat of sequestration, something the Defense Department as a whole has been warning about for years.
|
|
Exxon executives, speaking confidentially because they were not authorized to discuss the potential nomination, argued that Mr. Tillerson had pushed for more research on advanced biofuels, carbon capture and sequestration, and carbon taxes to reduce greenhouse emissions.
|
|
The difference is that carbon-free includes not only renewables but also advanced nuclear power plants and fossil fuel power plants with carbon capture and sequestration, either of which Xcel may end up needing to get to 290.
|
|
While the debate ultimately resulted in budget sequestration, as articulated in the Budget Control Act of 2011, a number of commissions, task forces and members of Congress assembled proposals to improve fiscal discipline and reform the tax code.
|
|
A senior administration official summed it up in a text message (using Axios style):"Can't go into election next year with 'accomplishments' only being:Kept ObamacareFixed DACARaised debt ceilingIncreased spending via a partially paid-for sequestration budget cap deal."
|
|
The Trump administration is seeking an increase to the base budget of about $20053 billion, representing a 9.8% increase over the Fiscal Year 2017 request, which adhered to the "sequestration" budget caps instituted by the Budget Control Act.
|
|
Singer believes sequestration, which entails putting jurors in a hotel under the watchful eye of guards for the duration of the trial, is the only way to keep social media from tainting the jury in high-profile cases.
|
|
In their letter, Ms. Rice and Mr. Donovan said the aid package was being negotiated in "an especially challenging budgetary environment," with the possibility that automatic across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration could return in 2018.
|
|
The greater societal benefits from cover-cropped fields — safer drinking water, fewer toxic algal blooms, smaller dead zones, increased carbon sequestration and greater resilience to droughts and floods — warrant greater public investment to bring this practice to scale.
|
|
Trump has vowed to take a tougher line with China and to build up the U.S. military, although it is unclear whether he will succeed in lifting caps on defense spending that have been part of "sequestration" legislation.
|
|
He was able to reveal, for example, that Trump would hedge America's energy sector on the promise of "clean coal": an industry name for reducing emissions from coal-fired power plants through carbon capture and sequestration technology (CCS).
|
|
Mr. Oldham said one of his carbon capture and sequestration plants would remove one million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually, a small fraction of the more than 33 billion tons humanity emits in a year.
|
|
Given these dynamics, the 22019 fiscal year will likely once begin under a continuing resolution — with lawmakers only dodging sequestration through a deal that raises spending caps slightly without major reforms that would produce long-term budget certainty.
|
|
Oil chiefs grappling with growing demand for action to fight climate change have looked to invest in carbon-capture and sequestration techniques that some executives, including Occidental Petroleum Corp CEO Vicki Hollub, say could make drilling carbon neutral.
|
|
Five years ago, Congress passed the sequestration deal, which imposed large spending cuts and then exempting major entitlement programs from those cuts, leading to severe cuts to the kind of federal programs whose dollars tend to stay local.
|
|
While Senate rules would allow Republicans to pass their tax bill without any Democratic votes, their Senate majority of 52-48 is so small that most legislation, including a change in the sequestration rules, would require Democratic votes.
|
|
Many, probably most energy analysts believe that renewables will need to be supplemented with nuclear power or fossil fuels with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), but some lefty environmental groups pushed for the GND to explicitly prohibit them.
|
|
"California recognizes we're not going to get below 1.5 degrees or 2 degrees (of climate change), probably, without carbon sinks or sequestration in some form," Alex said on the sidelines of the U.N. climate talks in Bonn this week.
|
|
A 2017 study published in PNAS found that restoring land rights for Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon "can, at least in the short term, help protect forests," and has cascading effects that include carbon sequestration and biodiversity protection.
|
|
As Dylan Scott has explained for Vox, in the coming weeks lawmakers will have to reach a new deal over budget caps to prevent automatic spending cuts, because of a sequestration policy Barack Obama negotiated with Republicans in 20.4.
|
|
"The first priority transcends the committee and that is finding a forceful way to end sequestration, so that we could operate both on the defense side and the nondefense side with the ability to adequately fund programs," he said.
|
|
In government, federal agencies are playing catch-up from years of underfunded research and development (R&D) impacted by economic constraints and sequestration, while other nations have increased their public and private R&D investments at a faster rate.
|
|
Thanks to the way all trees and forests naturally pull carbon dioxide from the air, a process known as "carbon sequestration," our forests and forest products here in America already capture 15 percent of our carbon emissions each year.
|
|
Biden's plan, however, sees some role for fossil fuels during the transition to a clean energy economy: It would invest money in carbon capture and sequestration, for example, a potential lifeline to coal- and natural gas-fired power plants.
|
|
If carbon farming is expanded to consider management of our natural landscapes as well, the potential for carbon sequestration goes up substantially because of the huge quantity of carbon stored in the biomass of trees and deep-rooted grasslands.
|
|
The technology they are promoting is carbon capture and sequestration — an expensive and, up to now, unwieldy method of trapping carbon dioxide emitted from coal-fired power plants before the gas can blanket the atmosphere and warm the planet.
|
|
"Sequestration isn't good for either side of the ledger, so we're hopeful that both sides can work together, as we've done in the past, to reach a good bipartisan agreement to eliminate these harmful cuts," the Senate aide added.
|
|
Andrew Reiner, an English professor at Towson University who teaches a seminar called "Mister Rogers 101: Why Civility and Community Still Matter," attributes much of the decline in civility, especially among younger people, to Americans' living in relative sequestration.
|
|
They even passed a waiver to ensure the tax bill wouldn't automatically trigger a sequestration across some major mandatory spending programs, like Medicare, federal student loans, and agriculture subsidies under the 2010 deficit management pay-as-you-go law.
|
|
Republicans rejected even this weak offer, opting instead for sequestration — an evenly balanced series of cuts to defense and non-defense discretionary spending that did nothing to address the long-term budget deficit and have since been partially rolled back.
|
|
"Our DC discussions reaffirmed our view that there is strong consensus for higher levels of defense spending, although the mechanics to undo sequestration (Budget Control Act) are still to be determined," UBS analyst David Strauss said in a note Wednesday.
|
|
But we know the final 20 percent will require 100 percent carbon capture and sequestration at all natural gas plants, or that all natural gas be replaced with synthetic natural gas, or that natural gas be eliminated as a fuel altogether.
|
|
Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO), once a designation meant to increase transparency and shield war spending from the threat of sequestration, has risen to new heights, while at the same time eroding to include billions of dollars in non-war spending.
|
|
Becerra also voted against President George W. Bush's tax cuts in 28503 and 22019, against the Iraq War and against the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, the deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff designed to avoid sequestration.
|
|
By raising the final two years of spending caps set forth in the 2011 Budget Control Act, the deal effectively ends the threat of severe automatic spending cuts, known as sequestration, that were intended to force a compromise in debt reduction.
|
|
He sees the spending caps as an area where Democrats will negotiate because they don't want to be stuck with passing a stopgap spending measure at year's end or letting automatic spending cuts known as sequestration go into effect in January.
|
|
The Obama administration and House Republicans both claimed to believe that major reforms to prevent durable deficits were necessary, setting the stage for "Grand Bargain" negotiations in 2011 and 2012 as well as the sequestration spending cuts that were ultimately enacted.
|
|
The "sequestration" provision of the 2011 Budget Control Act, which has introduced both additional cuts and imbecilic turbulence to defense plans, receives most of the blame for the current situation, but the wounds have been inflicted for over two decades.
|
|
A push to electrify shipping ports, which are hives of heavy-duty diesel vehicle traffic How it works, part 2: On climate, Warren vows an executive order requiring the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to bolster ocean carbon sequestration efforts.
|
|
The committee is requesting a range of materials from the two Republican officials, including "(all) communications related to any voter roll purges," documents "related to closing, moving, or consolidating polling sites" and documents pertaining to the "sequestration" of voting machines.
|
|
Despite carbon capture's problems, its supporters, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the International Energy Agency, call the technology, known as carbon capture sequestration, crucial for meeting emissions standards that can prevent the worst effects of climate change.
|
|
Coupled with the improved 45Q tax credits that incentivize carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (CCUS) technology, carbon border adjustments in the USMCA would provide another important lever to jump-start America's leadership in this pivotal technology for reducing industrial emissions.
|
|
The deficit did come down in the late Obama years, in part after Republicans insisted on budget cuts in so-called sequestration policies and the Obama administration insisted on allowing some of the Bush tax cuts to expire, raising taxes.
|
|
Shelby was asked if the administration is interested in a deal that would lift spending caps for domestic and defense programs or would it prefer the automatic across the board cuts that would take place through sequestration if an agreement isn't reached.
|
|
Despite rebuilding the force with more than 3,000 airmen over the last two budget cycles following years of budget cuts and sequestration, the Air Force hopes to add only 3003,500 new airmen across its force in the FY21 request, the budget says.
|
|
Republicans passed a nearly $1.5 trillion tax cut this week, which the Congressional Budget Office said would trigger a sequestration across some major mandatory spending programs, like Medicare, federal student loans, and agriculture subsidies, and even some funding for customs and border patrol.
|
|
The goal of the study, which will include tens of thousands of farms followed for a decade or more, is to quantify farming practices that maximize soil carbon sequestration and understand the impact of these practices on farm profitability and crop nutrition.
|
|
In addition to this considerable sum, the 2017 budget included $9.6 billion for foreign aid from Overseas Contingency Operations funds, a peculiar budgetary device created in 85003 to fund war-related spending in Iraq and Afghanistan that is conveniently exempt from sequestration cuts.
|
|
No guarantees, pitfalls remain: The nuclear arsenal, like much of the military, suffers from "force degradation resulting from many years of underinvestment, poor execution of modernization programs, and the negative effects of budget sequestration (cuts in funding) on readiness and capacity," Heritage writes.
|
|
At the same time, Mattis was critical of Congress for not doing enough to invest in the readiness of the military and he called on U.S. lawmakers to get rid of automatic spending cuts under budget caps and the so-called sequestration process.
|
|
Here's just one example: In the Marine Corps, Class A Mishaps, which are defined as accidents that result in loss of life or loss of aircraft, are 84 percent above their 10-year average and have increased 50 percent since sequestration took effect.
|
|
The candidate would have to propose additional tax increases and/or spending cuts to pay for rolling back sequestration and reducing the debt, which could be difficult given her pledge to not raise taxes on those making less than $250,000, the CRFB said.
|
|
I couldn't underscore this more strongly: Unless we systematically work to project American leadership around the world, get rid of sequestration to have a competitive defense budget and an increased spending on conventional and nuclear weapons, our status will continue to weaken.
|
|
The prospect of putting an expiration date on the ACA with an intent to replace it later is reminiscent of the broken promises that led to budget sequestration, a promise backed with the threat of unthinkable budget cuts that became a reality.
|
|
The difference is, hitting 1.5 degrees will require re-absorbing 10 to 25 years worth of carbon emissions, which amounts to several hundred gigatons, using technologies — carbon sequestration, biochar, reforestation — that are, in their current state, horrendously expensive, woefully inadequate, or both.
|
|
Mattis fought for and received two-carrier presence in Central Command at the end of 2010, a program that ended in early 2013, when the Navy successfully argued that continuing two-carrier presence was not affordable with sequestration cuts hitting the force.
|
|
And it eliminates $8 billion in scheduled payment reductions to hospitals caring for large numbers of uninsured and Medicaid patients, as well as temporarily removing a 2% cut for treating Medicare patients, which was part of the automatic budget cuts under sequestration.
|
|
The U.S. government's payment on BABs became subject to federal across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration, resulting in subsidy cuts that ranged from 8.7 percent in 2013 to 6.6 percent in the current fiscal year, according to the Internal Revenue Service.
|
|
The Congressional Budget Office said this week that the estimated $1.5 trillion increase over 10 years in the federal budget deficit under the House tax bill would, in fiscal 2018, wipe out funding for many programs subject to sequestration under federal law.
|
|
Several U.S. efforts designed for protecting wildlife habitat and biodiversity, like the Conservation Reserve Program, promote land management activities that are complementary to goals of increasing land carbon stocks, but could be redesigned with more emphasis on monitoring and incentivizing carbon sequestration.
|
|
"Avoiding sequestration would require amending the [Budget Control Act] to increase the caps, scaling back the goals of DoD (and possibly those of the other agencies funded by the national defense budget), or taking some combination of those actions," the report said.
|
|
AEP, the Ohio-based utility that consumes more coal than any other, ran a carbon capture and sequestration experiment for a while at its Huntington Plant in West Virginia but cancelled it in 2012 after concluding that the technology was commercially unviable.
|
|
The problem: The companies don't really know how they'll get all the way there without significant increased development and scaling of technologies like "carbon capture and sequestration, advanced nuclear reactors and battery storage" — and that's likely to need help from the federal government.
|
|
In partnership with the Ecosystem Services Market Consortium and other organizations, such as The Rodale Institute and the Soil Health Institute, Indigo will use its digital agronomy capabilities and software imagery analysis to measure and verify soil carbon sequestration and on-farm emission levels.
|
|
The projects that are most familiar as carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) — namely, facilities that capture CO23 from the exhaust stream of a fossil-fueled power plant or heavy industrial process, like the (failed) Kemper power plant in Mississippi — do not qualify as negative emissions.
|
|
According to Matt Hourihan, the director of the R&D Budget and Policy Program for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, when the NIH's budget dropped 5 percent from sequestration cuts, they had to cut around 5003 individual grants (out of about 9,000).
|
|
The second camp believes that the cheaper, safer way to get to carbon-free electricity is not to rely entirely on renewables but to supplement them with "firm" zero-carbon alternatives like hydro, nuclear, geothermal, biomass, or fossil fuels with carbon capture and sequestration.
|
|
Pentagon leaders, and supporters in Congress, say efforts to keep pace with China's growing military might and other international security threats have been hampered by mandatory "sequestration" budget cuts imposed across the government in 2011 in an effort to address the massive U.S. deficit.
|
|
The gray bars on the right show the demand for coal in a 2 degree scenario — here called a "450 scenario," referring to carbon concentrations in the atmosphere — varying with different assumptions about the viability of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) later this century.
|
|
The "skinny budget" released today starts the effort right away, but unfortunately it starts it with large cuts to infrastructure that, together with its cuts to science and education, would shortchange our economic future as they come on top of the already reduced sequestration levels.
|
|
Senate Republicans' draft trillion dollar stimulus proposal didn't deliver on the request but did give the industry two important wins: temporarily freezing a 2 perent reduction in Medicare payments that was mandated under budget sequestration and boosting Medicare payments 15 percent for coronavirus-diagnosed cases.
|
|
On Tuesday, Mr. McCain, Republican of Arizona and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, pointed to the automatic budget cuts on the Pentagon since 353, known as sequestration, as one of the primary culprits behind the combined 235 deaths aboard the two destroyers.
|
|
A study by scientists from Yale University and the University of Washington showed that expanding wood construction while limiting global harvesting to no more than the annual growth could produce a combination of emissions reduction and carbon sequestration equivalent to eliminating construction emissions altogether.
|
|
They have won some short-term victories, most recently in a 2011 deal imposing a schedule of automatic spending cuts known as sequestration — an ill-timed turn toward austerity that slowed the economic recovery from the 2008 recession, imposing needless pain on millions of Americans.
|
|
The bargain, which we have outlined in more detail, would also reverse a portion of the cuts to defense and nondefense discretionary spending imposed by sequestration that both parties have criticized and replace the savings with permanent deficit reduction in other parts of the budget.
|
|
The risks to life and land posed by climate change will trigger new reallocations of capital: whether to offer mortgages and insurance in hurricane zones, rebuild shattered areas, invest in renewable energy sources or carbon-sequestration technologies, or to salvage and retool municipal infrastructure.
|
|
The plan would seek to do away with the harsh "sequestration" spending caps of the budget control act and replace them with "realistic and responsible" limits; increase the debt ceiling to avoid an economic crisis; and eliminate commonly used budget gimmicks from the process.
|
|
That Dar Adal was behind the Sekou bombing, the sequestration of the president-elect, the surveillance of Carrie's house, the presence of rock-throwing demonstrators, the setup of Saul as a would-be dupe of the Israelis, the betrayal and torture of Majid Javadi, sure.
|
|
Hawkish Republicans were equally frustrated with their tea party colleagues when Congress could not reach agreement on spending in 2013 and as a result of the rules put into place in 2011, forced the implementation of budget sequestration that imposed caps on military and not domestic spending.
|
|
Several sources have noted that two of the top players in the White House -- acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and acting OMB Director Russ Vought -- have indicated they would be willing to let sequestration take effect in order to underscore the administration's commitment to fiscal restraint.
|
|
Ironically, the tax bill's projected impact on the deficit automatically triggers a sequestration across some major mandatory spending programs, like Medicare, federal student loans, and agriculture subsidies, and even some funding for customs and border patrol, due to a 2010 deficit management pay-as-you-go law.
|
|
The tea party raised the volume in partisan debate, blocked the entire United States budget process, pushed sequestration and added riders onto all sorts of bills -- hidden bits of legislation aimed at shutting down abortion services, family planning, and other of their pet peeves across America.
|
|
The Congressional Budget Office has said a $1.5 trillion tax bill would trigger a sequestration across some major mandatory spending programs, like Medicare, federal student loans, and agriculture subsidies, and even some funding for customs and border patrol — unless Congress passes a law to stop it.
|
|
Over the five years that sequestration has been in effect, bipartisan budget agreements have added back on average, $85003 billion per year to the Pentagon—less than one fifth of the Budget Control Act's yearly cuts of about $100 billion compared to the Gates budget plan.
|
|
Claire Wigg, chief executive officer of Stockholm-based ZeroMission, which buys carbon credits from Mikoko Pamoja and sells them to Swedish companies, said the mangrove carbon offset scheme is popular among its buyers because it is unique and the trees are good performers in carbon sequestration.
|
|
But while it is also converting coal plants to natural gas and experimenting with carbon capture and sequestration for coal, it is reducing investment in some growing markets that the previous chief executive, David Crane, aggressively pursued, like residential solar power, electric vehicle charging and home automation.
|
|
But sequestration is still law, and CBO warned recently that if Congress passes its tax reform plan without a credible way to pay for it, it would trigger automatic budget cuts of $136-150 billion a year starting in 2018, including hacking $25 billion off Medicare.
|
|
Carter said that if the budget deal collapses, the Pentagon could revert back to lower spending levels under the 2011 Budget Control Act, known as sequestration, which sliced $85003 billion from the Pentagon's budget over 10 years, on top of $500 billion in cuts already planned.
|
|
NASA and SpaceX choose both Budget deal sparks scramble to prevent shutdown Trump border fight throws curveball into shutdown prospects MORE (R-Ala.) met with Trump, Mnuchin, Mulvaney and Vought Monday afternoon to make an appeal for not letting the automatic cuts known as sequestration take effect.
|
|
" On "State of the Union," McCain also cited the tension on the Korean peninsula as a reason for Congress to end the sequestration of funding and increase military spending, calling the status quo, which he said has degraded the capabilities of the US military, a "disgrace.
|
|
It's reasonable to expect that, within a constrained budget—called a "sequestration budget"—whilst nothing is going to be doing well, programs within any of the congressional districts for the states of the members of the appropriations committee are likely to be treated better than average.
|
|
That can either be direct subsidies for carbon sequestration and reuse, as in the 45Q tax credit in the US (C2ES has a number of suggestions for improving it), or a variety of other publicly backed financial instruments like private activity bonds and master limited partnerships.
|
|
The $610 billion figure falls in line with President Obama's 2017 defense budget request as well as the 2015 Bipartisan Budget Act, which set government spending levels for 2016 and 85033, in order to provide some budget stability and relief from defense budget caps known as sequestration.
|
|
The Ontario Far North Act specifically states that more than 50 percent of the land north of 51 degrees latitude is to be protected from development, and the remainder can only be developed if the cultural, ecological (diversity and carbon sequestration) and social values are not degraded.
|
|
When it comes to reducing carbon use below net zero, though, the split among experts is between those who think technology is more promising, and more necessary, and some who think natural means like reforestation and soil sequestration will provide the largest part of the answer.
|
|
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer huddled in the Kentucky Republican's office to hash out remaining differences over the caps, which are the result of the unpopular budget sequestration of 2013, which significantly curbed spending growth on defense and domestic programs.
|
|
Tom CottonThomas (Tom) Bryant CottonCongress must address gender gap in nominations to military service academies GOP senators press Google on reports it developed a smart speaker with Huawei Sunday shows - Mass shootings grab the spotlight MORE (R-Ark.) to "end sequestration" and a measure from Sen.
|
|
Moreover, long-term funding that is specifically authorized for trafficking is more important than ever in today's environment of sequestration and funding cuts: each budget cycle presents a tremendous challenge to maintain — let alone build — the programs whose resources are dwarfed by the profits traffickers bring in.
|
|
Carlock, along with most other wonks in the field, thinks it's preferable to shoot for 100 percent "clean and renewable energy," to make room for non-renewable carbon-free options like existing nuclear plants or any new developments in nuclear, biomass, or carbon capture and sequestration.
|
|
By that he meant improving what he sees as the poor state of readiness resulting from four years of budget caps, sequestration (automatic across-the-board cuts when the caps were exceeded) and continuing resolutions (to meet funding needs when Congress could not reach a longer-term agreement).
|
|
Oil and gas companies, under cover of Energy Advance Center, submitted comments to the IRS arguing that the agency should get rid of the strict verification rules for EOR sequestration (Subpart RR under the EPA's GHG Reporting Rule, for fans) that were implemented with the expanded 45Q credits.
|
|
John McCain, who came out with an aggressive statement against Trump's actions, calling them "disturbing," also lamented that the scandals are hindering Congress's ability to legislate: "I have about 20 different items, ranging from a defense authorization bill to sequestration to tax reform — a large agenda," he said.
|
|
" One bill "expands strategies and mechanisms to reduce greenhouse gas emissions statewide," ABC News noted, while the other one seeks to "identify agricultural and aquacultural practices to improve soil health and promote carbon sequestration – the capture and long-term storage of atmospheric carbon dioxide to mitigate climate change.
|
|
Since the beginning of the Budget Control Act and the circular firing squad that is sequestration, we've been confronted by a kind of prisoner's dilemma: Democrats and Republicans were each in favor of increasing the defense budget, but the only way they could get there was to cooperate.
|
|
Fossil fuels have long (and correctly) been identified as the biggest culprits, with the majority of humanity's atmospheric carbon contribution coming from burning fossil fuels — oil, coal, and natural gas — and reversing hundreds of millions of years of natural carbon sequestration on the part of swamps and forests.
|
|
He said the Guard had sought help from Congress in 2014 in its yearly priorities list sent to Congress, but it "fell off" the list in following years because of cost concerns and because it was a "tough sequestration year," in reference to cuts the Pentagon was facing.
|
|
That is why in 2011, I voted against the indiscriminate across-the-board cuts that have harmed our military, and I will continue to fight to eliminate sequestration to ensure the United States maintains the military necessary to deter — and if necessary fight and win — our nation's wars.
|
|
My plan also includes increased federal funding for renewable energy research, advanced nuclear technologies, direct air capture, a new Climate Corps program, and the construction of the Carbon Throughway, which would transport captured carbon from all over the country to the Permian Basin for reuse and permanent sequestration. 2.
|
|
While carbon capture and sequestration is technically feasible, the Department of Energy's website concedes that it's not currently viable for fighting climate change and carbon emissions: "Today's capture technologies are not cost-effective when considered in the context of storing CO2 from existing power plants," the site reads.
|
|
Next steps could include pairing an infrastructure bill with tax reform, eliminating budget sequestration and the debt ceiling, restoring funding to the State Department and cutting it to the United Nations, and saving the nuclear power industry through deregulation and federal subsidies — in the name of combating climate change.
|
|
GOP leaders staved off painful automatic spending cuts known as sequestration, significantly boosted defense money and raised the debt ceiling, while ignoring Democrats' demands for a firm commitment to bring a bipartisan bill to the floor to protect Dreamers — immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children.
|
|
He argues that BECCS and direct air capture are more expensive than reforestation and soil-sequestration approaches that, combined with deep reductions in carbon usage, will be sufficient to hold global warming below 2180 degrees and will save trillions of dollars of capital investment by 22021, he said.
|
|
But I'm equally interested in making sure that they shift capital investment away from additional fossil fuel resources that they will want to produce and sell and shift their investments into alternative energy and carbon capture and sequestration so that we can avoid the worst of future climate damages.
|
|
Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon embraces spinsterhood as the famously reclusive poet Emily Dickinson in this lush biopic that follows her from her days as a gifted but insecure student through her years as an introverted adult, whose attachment to her family leads to self-imposed sequestration.
|
|
The blunt instrument of sequestration -- the law that emerged from the debt-ceiling impasse in 2013 and ties spending cuts and caps in parts of the federal budget to spending levels in other parts of the budget -- has been an obstacle to justified increases in defense spending in the past.
|
|
"We don't think anything should be taken off the table, including building new nuclear plants and carbon capture and sequestration, because decarbonizing the energy sector by 2050 is going to be a huge challenge," says Steve Clemmer, director of energy research for the Union of Concerned Scientists' climate and energy program.
|
|
Dan CrenshawDaniel CrenshawLawmakers trade insults over Trump budget cuts House Republicans propose carbon capture and sequestration legislation Loeffler works to gain traction with conservatives amid Collins primary bid MORE (R-Texas) said the Budget Committee was supposed to be the "adult in the room," and make hard decisions on spending.
|
|
At about the same time, a whole other bunch of ecologists started pushing back on the agriculture-tech startup Indigo for pitching a similar land-based carbon sequestration strategy, the "Terraton Initiative," paying farmers to use new methods that could suck down a trillion metric tons (a teraton) of carbon.
|
|
For example, with this tax bill it typically "would be required to issue a sequestration order within 15 days of the end of the session of Congress to reduce spending in fiscal year 2018 by the resultant total of $136 billion," according to the CBO's letter to Minority Whip Rep.
|
|
"I have got a lot of people asking me this question back in November of 2014, after Democrats had been beaten badly in the mid-term elections," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said, pointing to the President's Pacific trade deal and the administration's sequestration busting breakthrough on the budget.
|
|
Wood, speaking at an event where the report was presented, said the current troublesome status of the U.S. military is due to a general decline in U.S. defense investment since the end of the Cold War and was only made worse by decreased spending under the Budget Control Act and sequestration.
|
|
Garret GravesGarret Neal GravesOvernight Energy: Green groups to sue over Trump rollback of Obama water rules | GOP climate plan faces pushback from right | Bezos launches B climate initiative GOP climate plan faces pushback — from Republicans House Republicans propose carbon capture and sequestration legislation MORE (R-La.) told The Hill this week.
|
|
One Republican House Armed Services Committee aide told CNN that simply blaming Congress for the military's degraded readiness is an over-simplification of the issue and that today's problems are a result of a "disconnect between the previous administration and Congress" over matching budget cuts for domestic and defense programs under sequestration.
|
|
Driven largely by ongoing conflicts around the globe and defense budget caps in the United States (the spending limits widely referred to as sequestration), major American defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman have maintained their bottom lines by finding new customers abroad, largely in Asia and the Middle East.
|
|
The memo's statements on these issues are suitably vague and may not be thought out at all, but it is clear from campaign statements that Trump seeks to exempt the Defense Department from sequestration, increase the size of the military, increase the number of naval ships, and yet also keep costs down.
|
|
As this graphic from market research firm IHS Markit shows, 23 percent of global CO2 use is "gaseous," meaning direct use of CO2 to boost fossil fuel recovery (in the US, it's about 75 percent): And EOR holds another distinction: It is also the only current carbon sequestration industry of any scale.
|
|
So as we contemplate the military we will need in the future, we should start with a simple premise that is often espoused but rarely followed: Defensebudgets must be based on an objective assessment of the threats to our national security interests — not sequestration and artificial budget caps that are detached from reality.
|
|
Many of the hurdles we face to rebuilding our industrial base and supply chains are self-imposed – sequestration and ongoing budget uncertainty are prime examples – but the challenge posed by our growing dependence on competitors, or nations that could become adversaries, for critical materials will take a multi-faceted approach to reverse.
|
|
It would demand centralized control of key economic sectors, enormous state investment in carbon capture and sequestration and global coordination on a scale never before seen, at the very time when the political and economic structures that held the capitalist world order together under American leadership after World War II are breaking apart.
|
|
Initially, the CBO projected that the 2014 farm bill — after factoring in $6.4 billion in automatic spending cuts known as sequestration — would spend $23 billion less during that 10-year period than if lawmakers extended agricultural and nutrition programs already on the books — a baseline established by the CBO in May 2013.
|
|
The logic is that any long-term funding deal — which Republicans urgently want to fund the military and avoid mandatory sequestration budget cuts — will require Democrats, both in the Senate, where 60 votes are needed to advance legislation, and in the House, where fiscal hawks generally reject overall budget numbers on principle.
|
|
Asked about the possibility of passing an appropriations bill for the Pentagon and a CR for the rest of the government and whether that would still trigger sequestration, the aide didn't "want to get into hypotheticals" but said whether the spending cuts kick in "depends on how you write" the bill. Rep.
|
|
" This is pretty clearly identical to a 2017 letter sent by BlueGreen Alliance executive director Kim Glas to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works: "Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is a rapidly growing technology that has potential to create economic benefits for multiple industries while significantly reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
|
|