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Main Subject: Environmental Protection

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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House committee actions Actions

Committee
Nov. 17 2020	Committee Hearings Held. Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife Discharged.
Jan. 17 2020	Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.

House floor actions Actions

IntroReferral

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.
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.
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.

Library of Congress Actions

IntroReferral
Jan. 13 2020	Introduced in House Introduced in House

House bill HR5589-116

To establish an Interagency Working Group on Coastal Blue Carbon, and for other purposes.

House bill HR5589-116

To establish an Interagency Working Group on Coastal Blue Carbon, and for other purposes.

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