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Witnesses and senators debate data approach, timing and funding for Climate Superfund amendment
Summary
Committee hearing included a proposed clarifying amendment to the Climate Superfund statute to tie covered emissions to extraction/refining within a covered period and discussion of funding requests (including a treasurer consultant request) to support cost-allocation work.
Committee members and witnesses on April 4 discussed a proposed clarification to the Climate Superfund statute (the act referenced in prior sessions as S.259) and funding needed to implement the program. Witnesses urged an attribution approach based on fossil-fuel extraction and refining data rather than the time of combustion, and they described resource requests the treasurer and agencies had made to complete necessary analyses.
Ben Walsh, representing a public-interest research group, told the committee…
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