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Panel advances bill allowing Coastal Commission to consider blue carbon in mitigation and authorize demonstration projects
Summary
AB 399 would let the California Coastal Commission include blue carbon sequestration in mitigation decisions and authorize demonstration projects to test or scale such mitigation.
Assemblymember Burner presented AB 399 to authorize the California Coastal Commission to add carbon sequestration considerations for mitigation and to allow blue carbon demonstration projects where feasible.
The author said coastal wetlands and seagrasses can sequester far more carbon per area than many terrestrial systems and argued that the Coastal Commission should be able to require or approve mitigation…
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