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• Letter to Senators Describing the RFS’s Negative Impact of Environment and Food Security

  In a letter sent to eleven US senators, the Clean Air Task Force, Environmental Working Group, ActionAid USA, and Oxfam America detail the Renewable Fuel Standard’s negative impact on both the environment and global food security, and urge the senators to reform the policy.

  Comments May 15, 2015

• The Role of Energy Intensity in Global Decarbonization Efforts: How Fast? Is it Possible?

  Avoiding extreme or dangerous climate change will likely require the nearly complete decarbonization of the global energy system during this century, with 50-90% reductions in global CO2 emissions by 2050 (GEA, 2012; IPCC, 2014; Loftus et al., 2015).

  Fact Sheet March 27, 2015

• CATF Comments to EPA Science Advisory Board’s Panel on Biogenic Carbon Emissions

  The SAB Panel on Biogenic Carbon Emissions, which advised EPA in 2012 on how to account for GHG emitted by biomass-burning facilities, was reconvened in 2015. CATF’s comments to the Panel summarize the biomass-related regulatory actions that EPA has taken since 2012 and outline principles that can be used by…

  Comments March 16, 2015

• CATF Comments on Proposed Re-Adoption of California LCFS and ILUC Analysis

  In addition to urging the Air Resources Board to readopt California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard through 2020, CATF’s comments illustrate the analytic- and policy-related problems with ARB staff’s proposal to reduce the lifecycle GHG assessment for corn ethanol.

  Comments February 19, 2015

• CATF Testimony at California ARB Hearing on LCFS Re-Adoption

  Testimony February 1, 2015

• Waste Not: Common Sense Ways to Reduce Methane Pollution from the Oil and Natural Gas Industry

  Waste Not, a new report from leading climate advocates shows how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can cut climate warming methane pollution in half, while dramatically reducing harmful, wasteful air pollution from the oil and gas industry at the same time, by issuing federal standards for methane pollution based on available, low-cost technologies and practices.

  Reports & Papers December 10, 2014

• CATF Written Testimony for “Future of Nuclear Energy” Hearing

  Testimony December 1, 2014

• The Last Climate Frontier: Leveraging the Arctic Council to make Progress on Black Carbon and Methane

  Impacts from climate change are threatening the Arctic environment and way of life.

  Reports & Papers October 14, 2014