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CATF Air Quality Monitoring Letter
CATF recently submitted a letter to the chairs of the Senate Environment and Public Works and House Energy and Commerce committees encouraging them to include $500 million in funding to update and improve the air quality monitoring system in the U.S.
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Regulating Flaring and Venting of Associated Gas
Gas flaring is a waste of gas and results in unnecessary emissions of methane, CO2, and pollutants such as particulate matter that directly harm human health. The EPA is working on strengthening regulations of methane from the oil and gas operations, and must address routine flaring as part of that…
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National Air Toxics Assessment and Cancer Risk in Allegheny County Pennsylvania Updated – May 2021
In August 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the results of its 2014 National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA). More recent data are not yet available. The purpose of NATA is to identify and prioritize air toxics (a subset of chemicals in the air pollution mixture, also called Hazardous…
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Oil & Gas Methane: Mapping the Path to a 65% Reduction
To tackle climate change, we must dramatically reduce methane emissions. In the short-term, methane is >80 times more potent than CO2. Methane accounts for a quarter of today’s global warming, yet levels in the atmosphere are surging. Quickly and significantly reducing methane pollution is one of the most important opportunities…
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Benchmarking Methane and Other GHG Emissions of Oil & Natural Gas Production in the United States
This first-of-its-kind analysis provides investors, operators, natural gas purchasers, policymakers and regulators with the data needed to directly compare relative emissions intensity and total reported methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide emissions for nearly 300 U.S. oil and gas producers. The results reveal dramatic variability between companies and basins. The…
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Scaling Up Climate Ambition: Carbon Capture, Removal, and Storage Priorities in the 117th Congress
These provisions could grow U.S. carbon management capacity 13-fold by the mid-2030s, making them available for global deployment.
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Potential Human Health Impacts Associated with Retirement of Nuclear Power Plants in Illinois
On August 26, 2020, Exelon announced its intention to retire two of its nuclear power plants in Illinois (Byron and Dresden Generating Stations). In October 2019 Clean Air Task Force (CATF) released an analysis of the significant health impacts that would result from the loss of four nuclear plants. At…
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The SCALE Act Fact Sheet
The Storing CO₂ and Lowering Emissions (SCALE) Act includes key policy pillars designed to overcome the barriers and drive CO₂ infrastructure deployment.
