Congress 116 - HR 5589 - Blue Carbon for Our Planet Act

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Air quality Aquatic ecology Climate change and greenhouse gases Congressional oversight Dams and canals Environmental assessment, monitoring, research Environmental Protection Executive agency funding and structure Federal-Indian relations Floods and storm protection Forests, forestry, trees Geography and mapping Government information and archives Government studies and investigations Horticulture and plants Intergovernmental relations International scientific cooperation Land use and conservation Marine and coastal resources, fisheries Scientific communication State and local government operations Water quality Watersheds Wetlands Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

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Blue Carbon for Our Planet Act

This bill establishes the Interagency Working Group on Coastal Blue Carbon to (1) assess the impediments to the protection and restoration of coastal blue carbon ecosystems, and (2) establish national protection and restoration priorities regarding these areas. Coastal blue carbon ecosystems are vegetated coastal habitats and include mangroves, tidal marshes, and other tidal or salt water wetland that have the ability to sequester and store carbon.

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Nov 17, 2020

Committee Hearings Held.
Nov 17, 2020

Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife Discharged.
Jan 17, 2020

Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
Jan 13, 2020

Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jan 13, 2020

Introduced in House

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