Putting a value on vegetation on a carbon
sequestration years basis would be a good idea.
To put these reductions in some historical context: in FY 2013,
the sequestration year, the NIH budget was cut by about five percent.
Not exact matches
«Think about the political crises over the last few
years —
sequestration, fiscal cliff, debt ceiling — that all turned out to be non-events.»
The rest of the outlay reduction of $ 1.2 trillion triggered by the
sequestration will be applied over the next ten
years.
When the
year started, we were staring at a looming budget
sequestration, a lingering debt crisis in Europe, and a slowdown in China.
The full effects of
sequestration will only be felt later in the
year, and I believe they will take the market by surprise.
Unless Congress acts to reduce or eliminate the project deficit increase, there is another
sequestration the following
year.
There are also questions around the rates of soil organic carbon
sequestration that have been researched and published for the past 20
years.
And I would hope that Democrats and Republicans can come out of corners, come into the middle and come up with an agreement within the next
year before that
sequestration takes effect.»
Now, the only good news is the
sequestration cuts, which are quite severe, don't take effect for a
year.
Defense cuts fueled by
sequestration requires that the Army cut 20,000 troops every
year for the next three
years.
Though hit hard by the recent federal
sequestration numbers, officials in the Kingston City School District are still anticipating crafting an operating budget for the 2013 - 14 school
year with a tax levy increase of 2 percent or less.
NEWBURGH, NY (11/06/2012)(readMedia)-- Whether Nan Hayworth or Sean Patrick Maloney wins on Election Day, massive across - the - board budget cuts through
sequestration are currently set to begin in January, resulting in $ 1.2 trillion in spending and investment cuts over the next 10
years.
When The Post last week inquired about the
year of missing rent, Rangel's office and OGS blamed federal
sequestration, not the lost lease referenced in agency correspondence.
Obama is submitting his budget two months late, after aides scrambled to deal with the end - of -
year «fiscal cliff» and then the March 1 deadline for
sequestration.
NEWBURGH, NY (11/08/2012)(readMedia)-- Now that the elections are over, Congress» focus will turn to massive across - the - board budget cuts through
sequestration are currently set to begin in January, resulting in $ 1.2 trillion in spending and investment cuts over the next 10
years.
If lawmakers rally votes to avoid government shutdown, deal ends
sequestration for two
years, opens the door for science and technology investment
Q: What would be the effects of
sequestration [the across - the board U.S. government funding cuts that occurred this
year] on this model?
Klara manages the DOE's carbon
sequestration program, which funded $ 56 million of research this fiscal
year, much of it in collaboration with industrial partners.
The issue of CO2 leakage with offshore
sequestration came to the forefront last
year, after a Nature article raised concerns about unexpected fractures above Statoil ASA's Sleipner natural gas project in the North Sea, where 1 million metric tons of CO2 has been injected annually below the seafloor since the mid-1990s.
But despite some commercial demonstrations of such carbon
sequestration technology, largely to help recover more oil from depleted fields, none have approached anywhere near the scale necessary to significantly impact the 9.3 billion metric tons of CO2 — and rising — emitted every
year from burning coal.
Every
year the
sequestration - level spending caps have been in place, Congress has acted to roll them partially back, most recently via a deal two
years ago.
This all would have meant a severe round of cuts for science agencies to rival, and likely exceed, the original
sequestration of a few
years ago, with very limited possibility of recovery in subsequent
years.
«
Sequestration could be provided for the next 30 to 50
years,» before the soil will reach its limit and other actions will be needed, he says.
«There are at least 100
years of CO2
sequestration capacity and probably significantly more,» Benson says.
Earlier this
year, the carbon capture industry added a «U» to the title of an annual CCS conference in Pittsburgh, making it the carbon capture, utilization and
sequestration conference.
Last night's passage by the U.S. House of Representatives of a 2 -
year budget agreement brings the country one step closer to a temporary end of the across - the - board cuts known as
sequestration.
The mandatory across - the - board federal cuts known as
sequestration slashed $ 1.55 billion from NIH's budget this
year and will result in belt - tightening at labs with ongoing grants as well as hundreds fewer new grants than in 2012.
Tree growth lags below normal for several
years following droughts, a detail about carbon
sequestration that climate models currently overlook.
And it is yet another blow on top of a decade of declining budgets for the $ 29 billion National Institutes of Health (NIH) and last
year's 5.5 % cut due to across - the - board cuts known as
sequestration, they added.
He cited NIH, whose budget even under the
sequestration regime is in line for a $ 1.1 billion increase above FY 2015 in the House and $ 2 billion in the Senate, the latter of which would be the largest single -
year increase since the end of the agency's budget doubling over a decade ago.
Given that
sequestration lopped off a staggering $ 1.55 billion from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) budget this
year, it shouldn't be hard to find examples of how the cut is harming research labs.
The survey «adds the voices of individual scientists» to the society's campaign to persuade Congress to boost support for research and roll back this
year's budget cuts, known as
sequestration, says Benjamin Corb, director of public affairs for ASBMB.
NIH is losing $ 1.7 billion this
year from
sequestration and other cuts, lowering its budget to $ 29.15 billion.
Oak Ridge is one of 10 national labs run by DOE's Office of Science, which this
year took a 5 % hit, to $ 4.632 billion, as part of the automatic budget cuts known as
sequestration.
Since carbon
sequestration stops in the absence of living plants, Jones and 12 ranchers in Western Australia are working to build up soil carbon by cultivating grasses that stay green
year - round.
-- For a covered entity described in section 700 (13)(J), 1 emission allowance for each ton of carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gas that would be emitted from the combustion of the natural gas, and any other gas meeting the specifications for commingling with natural gas for purposes of delivery, that such entity delivered during the previous calendar
year to customers that are not covered entities, assuming no capture and
sequestration of that greenhouse gas.
We support a rare assembly of plant and animal species — including 200 -
year old American oak trees and wetlands that are home to the blue - spotted salamander — and contributes significantly to the protection of the area's water resources, air quality and carbon
sequestration.
This natural carbon
sequestration system sucks up 0.2 gigaton of carbon every
year, scientists reported this week in a new study in Nature Geoscience.
If we want to stay within 2 degrees, we must massively invest in
sequestration; and we could, in 15
years, halve the emissions gap» by making soil carbon
sequestration part of the Paris deal.
The project should bring numerous environmental benefits, including reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 880 to 1111 tonnes per
year, cutting chemical fertiliser use and water consumption by 20 % and increasing carbon
sequestration in soil by the same amount.
Dr. David Keith (
[email protected]) has been working on
sequestration of CO2 from the air for at least 2
years.
Deficit reduction measures taken in recent
years have led to
sequestration and imprudent across - the - board spending cuts.
An increase brought on by President Barack Obama's stimulus was gone within a few
years, followed by spending cuts via
sequestration.
«For fiscal
year 2013, the non-defense cuts would occur through across - the - board, proportional reductions in the new funding provided for each discretionary program in the appropriations bills for fiscal
year 2013, which Congress should already have enacted before the January 2013
sequestration order is issued.»
The legislation, which had overwhelming bipartisan support in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, requires the president to detail how the administration will implement the $ 1.2 trillion in
sequestration cuts to domestic and defense programs scheduled for the start of 2013 if Congress is unable to agree on another deficit - reduction plan before the end of the
year.
Although much of the funds affected by federal budget
sequestration have been restored in Fiscal
Year 2014, many school districts have suffered a significant loss of resources.
Finally, the governor had proposed in his revised May budget a provision for schools with $ 60.7 million to backfill the looming
sequestration cuts to IDEA money that districts face in the 2013 - 14 fiscal
year.
In an effort to help soften the impact of
sequestration on school districts, the U.S. Department of Education has offered states a waiver to rules limiting how many Title I dollars can be carried over from one fiscal
year to the next.
Most, but not all, federal education funds lost through
sequestration are restored for the current federal fiscal
year.