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• Zero-Carbon Fuels and Marine Shipping: Both a Will and a Way?

  The marine shipping sector consumes around 10 quadrillion Btu of fuel and emits one billion metric tons of carbon dioxide each year. That’s more than all of Germany’s emissions, more than all of Saudi Arabia’s emissions, and roughly equal to the emissions from all passenger vehicles in the United States….

  Transportation May 7, 2021

• CATF Comments on Inception Impact Assessment for Revision of the TEN-T Regulation

  CATF appreciates the opportunity to provide the following comments to the Commission on the Inception Impact Assessment (IIA) for the Revision of Regulation on Union Guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network (TEN-T).

  Comments December 18, 2020

• Biofuels, Indirect Land Use Change, and Global Warming Emissions

  When the Renewable Fuel Standard, a biofuel consumption mandate, creates demand in the United States for ethanol and biodiesel, the agricultural sector responds by growing more of the crops that can be used to make biofuel—crops like corn and soybeans.

  Fact Sheet November 11, 2020

• Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources “Hearing on Offshore Energy Technologies”

  CATF Senior Counsel, Jonathan Lewis, gave testimony during a hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources on Offshore Energy Technologies. Watch Jonathan Lewis’s opening statement and read the full testimony below.

  Testimony September 22, 2020

• Putting a (Green) Thumb on the Scale: Decarbonizing the Transportation Sector Will Require Policies that Support Specific Technologies

  Technology neutrality is frequently cited as a key positive attribute of the low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) policy approach. By allowing regulated entities to utilize any technology or system that delivers carbon intensity (CI) reductions, LCFS policies can enlist market-driven innovation by opening the decarbonization challenge to an unlimited set…

  Policy, Technology, Transportation July 23, 2020

• Building a Globally Networked Supply of Zero-Carbon Shipping Fuel

  Decarbonizing the global marine shipping sector will require policy, technology, and industrial advancements that are built for the long haul. The changes will have to be implemented over a period of years by a highly-coordinated international network of public and private sector stakeholders. The cooperation of major ports to facilitate…

  Transportation July 8, 2020

• CATF Comments on EU Hydrogen Strategy

  Clean Air Task Force has provided feedback on the European Commission’s roadmap for an EU hydrogen strategy. The strategy is expected to explore how clean hydrogen can help the EU reach climate-neutrality by 2050, as set out in the European Green Deal.

  Comments June 8, 2020

• 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…

  News & Media, Policy December 19, 2019