Author
Lesley Feldman
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CATF Analysis: Exported gas climate impacts are complicated, but a focus on mitigation is key
For natural gas to have a role in in a net zero energy system, it must include aggressive mitigation of methane and carbon dioxide emissions from the entire gas supply chain.
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Analysis of Lifecycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Natural Gas and Coal Powered Electricity
Beyond the comparison of coal and natural gas, a critical question is whether and under what conditions natural gas has a role in a decarbonized world.
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Strong EU methane regulations for imported gas can slash methane pollution globally
Clean Air Task Force’s analysis indicates that implementing an EU import standard for oil and gas could reduce a third of global methane emissions from the oil and gas sector and can bring us closer to achieving the Global Methane Pledge goal by 2030.
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Fossil fuel emissions are driving climate change and increasing cancer risk. Here’s what EPA can do now
Pollution from the oil and gas industry is not only driving climate change by emitting methane.
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New Mexico needs to drop harmful exemptions from air pollution rules for oil and gas sites
Methane is a terribly harmful climate pollutant – pound for pound, it heats the climate over the next few decades more than eighty times more than carbon dioxide, and it’s currently responsible for about a quarter of the warming we are already experiencing, such as more severe droughts, heatwaves, and…
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Reducing Methane from Oil and Gas: A Path to a 65% Reduction in Sector Emissions
UPDATED DEC. 2020 Given the urgency of the climate crisis, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should very rapidly put in place methane emissions standards at new and existing oil and natural gas sites, nationwide. In this memo, we describe how ambitious regulations can readily reduce methane emissions in 2025 from…
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Memo: Modeled impacts from EPA methane rollbacks
In 2016, U.S. EPA issued landmark standards for new and modified facilities in the oil production and natural gas production, process, and transmission and storage industries. These standards reduce methane and other harmful air pollutants from facilities they cover in several key ways. Furthermore, the promulgation of methane pollution standards…
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CATF Launches the Country Methane Abatement Tool
CATF’s Country Methane Abatement Tool (CoMAT) lets countries estimate how much methane pollution they can reduce from their oil and gas industries even when they have limited information about the industry and its current emissions.
