ReSCUE Oceans Act

This bill directs the Commerce Department, through NOAA, to set up a program within 90 days to research and test ways of using the ocean to remove carbon dioxide from the air, including through competitive grants and field trials. It allows the creation of research areas, including on Tribal lands only with Tribal consent, with terms of use, advisory boards, monitoring, and limits on environmental harm. It creates a federal interagency working group to write a research plan and a code of conduct for researchers, and to publish a report to Congress every two years. It also directs the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology to fund research, measure results from space, and develop measurement standards, and authorizes funding for fiscal years 2027 through 2031.

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Sponsors

• Brian Schatz Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors