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2020 NEPA Revisions
Clean Air Task Force offers our comments on the Council on Environmental Quality (“CEQ”) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM or proposal”), “Update to the Regulations Implementing the Procedural Provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act,” 85 Fed. Reg. 1,684 (Jan. 10, 2020). CATF strongly opposes this effort to undermine protective…
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New Study on Building With Wood and Global Climate Change has New England Regional Implications, Part 1
A new report from an international team of scientists concludes that managing forests better and using engineered wood products to build tall buildings in urban areas could have a major effect in addressing damaging climate change. (Buildings as a global carbon sink, Churkina, et al). In this two-part blog, we…
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CATF Statement on EPA Supplemental Proposed Rule on “Censored Science”
Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) advanced another chapter in its effort to restrict the Agency’s use of the best available science by announcing a supplemental proposed rule that applies even more broadly than its original ill-conceived proposal. Despite strong opposition and concern expressed by the scientific community, environmentalists, and…
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Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Advanced Nuclear Technology’s Role in a Decarbonized Future
Testimony of Armond Cohen Before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy on March 3rd, 2020.
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CATF Statement on the CLEAN Future Act
“Clean Air Task Force is encouraged to see the progress made by the House Energy and Commerce Committee leadership in creating the ‘CLEAN Future Act’ framework for a comprehensive climate bill that will achieve 100 percent decarbonization by 2050,” said Conrad Schneider, Advocacy Director of Clean Air Task Force. “From…
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New Orleans Renewable Portfolio Standard
And informal comment letter in Docket. No. UD-19-01, In Re: Resolution and Order Establishing a Docket and Opening a Rulemaking to Establish Renewable Portfolio Standards
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CATF Statement on EPA’s Final 2020 RFS Biofuels Requirements
BOSTON, December 19, 2019 – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) regulations today that establish the volume of biofuels that must be blended into the United States’ transportation fuel supply in 2020 (and 2021, for biomass-based diesel fuels). “Today’s rule is more evidence that the RFS…
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National Petroleum Council Issues Positive Report on CCUS
CATF says we can keep costs down and innovation up. The National Petroleum Council (NPC) released its new report on carbon capture, transport and storage this week. The report underscores the importance of carbon capture and identifies policies that would make the technology widespread across the industrial and power sectors….
