The Carbon Dioxide Removal Leadership Act
by Nori – Carbon Removal Newsroom (35 min) on Spotify
In January of 2022, New York Assembly member Patricia Fahy and State Senator Michelle Hinchey introduced the Carbon Dioxide Removal Leadership Act. The proposed legislation aims to use public procurement of carbon removal to help meet the state’s emissions reductions goals by purchasing enough removals to cover the state’s “hard-to-abate” sector’s by 2050- 15% of the state’s 1990 emissions.