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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).
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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RFS Politics Keep Ping-Ponging and the Environment Keeps Losing
If a contest was held to identify the Trump Administration’s most haywire, least efficient, most higgledy-piggledy exercise in policymaking, its implementation of the Renewable Fuel Standard would have to be in the running. Surely other policy initiatives have caused more harm in the past three years, environmental and otherwise—but the…
