I live next door in Massachusetts so take a particular interest in this. The bill has two sponsors, both Democrats:
- Rep. Karen MacBeth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_MacBeth - Rep. James McLaughlin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McLaughlin_(politician) They serve together on the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and both represent Cumberland. It just so happens that MacBeth is a member of Rhode Island Against Chemtrails and Geoengineering https://www.facebook.com/groups/RhodeIslandAgainstChemtrails/members/ Josh Horton On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 10:10:27 AM UTC-4, Alan Robock wrote: > > Since the bill defines geoengineering as counteracting global *warning* > and not global *warming*, do we have anything to worry about? > > The bill makes no distinction between small scale experiments and large > scale implementation, but I guess that is what the review process is for. > > Alan Robock > > Alan Robock, Distinguished Professor > Editor, Reviews of Geophysics > Director, Meteorology Undergraduate Program > Department of Environmental Sciences Phone: +1-848-932-5751 > Rutgers University Fax: +1-732-932-8644 > 14 College Farm Road E-mail: rob...@envsci.rutgers.edu > <javascript:> > New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8551 USA http://envsci.rutgers.edu/~robock > http://twitter.com/AlanRobock > Watch my 18 min TEDx talk at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsrEk1oZ-54 > > On 3/22/2015 7:41 PM, Ken Caldeira wrote: > > > If this is real and not a joke, and it passes in its present form, it > seems as if someone in Rhode Island could potentially be fined and > imprisoned for planting a tree with the intent of absorbing carbon dioxide > from the atmosphere. > > _______________ > Ken Caldeira > > Carnegie Institution for Science > Dept of Global Ecology > 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA > +1 650 704 7212 kcal...@carnegiescience.edu <javascript:> > website: http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/ > blog: http://kencaldeira.org > @KenCaldeira > > My assistant is Dawn Ross <dr...@carnegiescience.edu <javascript:>>, > with access to incoming emails. > Postdoc positions available in my group: > https://jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/dge/ > > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Hester, Tracy <tdhe...@central.uh.edu > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> We now have possibly the first state proposed legislation in the United >> States to control climate engineering efforts. A bill (H-5480) was >> recently introduced in the Rhode Island legislature that would require any >> climate engineering efforts to undergo an approval process and two (at >> least) public hearings. The bill would impose fines and up to 90 days >> imprisonment for each day that the unapproved climate engineering >> continues. The bill also gives Rhode Island's environmental agency the >> ability to enjoin and halt an unapproved project. >> >> >> If you’d like to get more details, you can review the bill itself at >> http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText15/HouseText15/H5480.pdf >> >> >> >> >> These local initiatives might pop up in other state legislatures if >> climate engineering research gains momentum (especially after the NAS >> reports last month). If so, the prospect of overlapping or conflicting >> regulations from multiple states will often spur the federal government to >> impose its own consolidated regulatory scheme to preempt the state efforts. >> >> >> >> >> Professor Tracy Hester >> University of Houston Law Center >> 100 Law Center >> Houston, Texas 77204 >> 713-743-1152 >> tdhe...@central.uh.edu <javascript:> >> Web bio: www.law.uh.edu/faculty/thester >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "geoengineering" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to geoengineerin...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to geoengi...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to geoengineerin...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to geoengi...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
