State legislators and regulators must find ways to adequately protect communities from Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) project impacts and ensure that communities derive direct benefits from local projects. While the Biden administration often imposed strong local engagement and community benefits requirements on federally-funded clean energy projects, we can't count on the new administration to enforce these requirements. It will now be incumbent upon state and community leaders to ensure that CDR project developers provide protections and benefits to host communities. Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) are one of several mechanisms to advance these values.

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