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• Render Unto Science: Biomass Carbon Emissions Should Be Determined by Science, Not Congressional Fiat

  The Senate Appropriations Committee’s vote to disavow the seemingly indisputable fact that forest biomass-based energy generation emits carbon dioxide is a short-sighted attempt to legislate science. The bill would openly set aside scientific consensus in favor of an edict that the industrial-scale combustion of trees and other biomass is essentially…

  Policy June 16, 2016

• Moving Forward: Final Methane Rule is Progress, But We Still Have Much to Do

  Finally.  After years of information gathering and analysis, EPA recently signed new source performance standards that will address methane and VOC pollution from new and modified sources within the oil and gas sector (“Final Rule”), EPA’s first-ever methane standards.  EPA estimates that this rule is expected to prevent 300,000 short…

  Policy May 26, 2016

• Climate Change Needs America’s Technology Leadership

  In December 2015, the leaders of 195 nations gathered in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference. They unanimously agreed to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. They had a further ambition to limit the global temperature rise to just 1.5 degrees, if possible. The…

  Climate, Electricity, Industry May 23, 2016

• Voluntary Methane Reduction Efforts Will Still Fall Short of Methane Reduction Goal

  On March 30th, at a session of the Global Methane Forum in Washington, DC, the EPA launched its Methane Challenge Program to encourage companies to voluntarily reduce methane emissions in the oil and gas sector. This program seeks to build on the work of the EPA Natural Gas STAR Program…

  Policy March 31, 2016

• A Week of Briefs, in Brief

  Public Health and Environmental Groups Dismantle Clean Power Plan Challenges Before the D.C. Circuit Court This week EPA, and environmental and public health organizations, as well as supportive states, power companies, and trade associations, submitted their responses to various hyperbolic challenges to the Clean Power Plan before the D.C. Circuit…

  Policy March 29, 2016

• Bipartisan Support for Advanced Energy Legislation? Yes, for CCS Incentives!

  Question: What policy can significantly reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuel consumption and at the same time, increase domestic oil production while reducing our oil imports?  And, amazingly enough, is supported by environmental groups, the fossil fuel industry, labor, Republicans and Democrats in Congress, and the Administration? Answer: Federal tax…

  Industry, Policy February 25, 2016

• Another Important Step Forward: BLM Proposes Long-Awaited Waste Rule

  The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) update to its decades-old regulations that address the waste of natural gas on Federally-managed land has been much anticipated. The wait is over—BLM’s proposed rule has finally been published, and there is much to be excited about in the…

  Policy February 11, 2016

• The Stage is Set for the Obama Administration’s Last Act on Climate

  For over seven years, the Obama Administration has pushed forward a series of policies to cut greenhouse gases from the biggest industrial sources in the U.S.  President Obama first issued a Climate Action Plan, and established a series of targets for the US to meet: 17% below 2005 levels by…

  Policy February 1, 2016