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• 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

• First Aliso Canyon, Then the Rest of the Oil and Gas System

  On October 23, 2015 a massive natural gas leak was detected and subsequently demonstrated by infrared camera at the Aliso Canyon underground gas storage facility near the Porter Ranch section of Los Angeles, California.  Over 2,000 residents have been relocated away from the leak and schools in the area have…

  Policy, Technology January 16, 2016

• EPA’s Proposed Standards for New Sources of Methane Pollution: Still a Good First Step

  On Thursday, December 3, CATF joined dozens of environmental, health, business, labor and Latino organizations to deliver over 775,000 public comments to EPA on the proposed NSPS rule for methane emissions from new and modified sources in the oil and gas industry.  Boxes containing the comments (pictured below) were received…

  Policy December 3, 2015

• A Good First Step – But We Have a Long Way to go on Oil and Gas

  Earlier this week USEPA took a long-awaited and critical first step to reduce emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane from the oil and gas industry. Oil and gas is the largest industrial source of methane pollution, and the standards for methane will also reduce pollution that causes ozone smog…

  Policy August 22, 2015

• Voluntary Measures: An Inadequate Solution to a Pressing Problem

  Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its new “Natural Gas STAR Methane Challenge Program,” a collection of voluntary measures aimed to reduce methane pollution from existing sources. In January, as part of its announced plan to reduce oil and gas industry methane emissions 40-45% by 2025, the Administration committed…

  Policy July 23, 2015

• MATS Isn’t Dead Yet – An Assessment of the Supreme Court’s Michigan v. EPA decision

  The death of EPA’s Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) rule has been greatly exaggerated by the popular media following the Supreme Court’s ruling Monday in Michigan v. EPA].  In fact MATS is NOT dead, and only EPA’s initial decision that it is “appropriate and necessary” to regulate coal and…

  Policy July 2, 2015

• White House Wisely Rejects the “Categorical Carbon Neutrality” of Biomass—But What Now?

  The White House Office of Management and Budget released a Statement of Policy this week detailing the many reasons why President Obama would veto H.R. 2822, a 2016 appropriations bill for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior put together by the Appropriations Committee in the House…

  Policy June 26, 2015

• Five Actions EPA Should Take When Issuing Much-Needed Methane Pollution Standards

  In January, EPA committed to a series of actions to reduce methane pollution, including setting nationwide methane standards for new and modified oil and gas equipment. Currently, there are no national limits on the amount of methane pollution that the oil and gas industry can release into the air. If…

  Policy May 21, 2015