A state income tax credit for the donation of conservation easements to a government entity or a 501(c)(3) charitable organization in perpetuity.
Oregon permits the state forester to develop contracts with non-federal forest landowners to market, register, transfer or sell forest carbon offsets as a stewardship incentive.
Adopted to minimize the loss of Maryland’s forest resources during land developing. Proposed amendments are to better define priority forests; clarify what justifies clearing priority forests; and require per acre replanting.
Colorado authorizes EV manufacturers that have no existing dealer franchise to be able to sell their vehicles directly to customers.
A pioneering law requiring permanent vegetative buffers on farmland abutting lakes and streams. The law was designed to reduce runoff, but will also increase soil carbon sequestration on the new strips.
Calls for development of a comprehensive strategy to reduce short-lived climate pollutants, including methane. CARB’s strategy calls for significant decreases in emissions from dairy manure management.
Established in 1987 to conduct research designed to reduce the environmental harms of agriculture and to help promulgate sustainable practices.
New Jersey banned offshore oil drilling in 2018 with the “Shore Tourism and Ocean Protection from Offshore Oil and Gas Act.”
Maine banned offshore oil exploration in 2019 through LD 955.
Oregon’s SB 256 (2019) repealed the sunset provision on the state’s offshore oil moratorium, effectively banning the practice permanently.