Opponents say it’s a regressive tax that doesn’t deliver anything, while proponents say it’s not a tax, but it puts a price on greenhouse gas emissions.
A climate expert says spraying sea salt into the troposphere is less threatening than other current efforts, but the lack of robust regulations is concerning.
The EPA was citing a section of the Civil Rights Act in an effort to ensure that minority communities were not disproportionately exposed to pollution.
‘Where was the public’s role in deciding that the ocean was just going to become a giant power plant?’ asks Cindy Zipf, executive director of Clean Ocean Action
The UN said its ‘global stocktake’ requires a 43 percent drop in emissions by 2030 if planetary temperature increases are to stay below 1.5 degrees Celsius.