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Legislators Introduce Coordinated Action To Capture Harmful (CATCH) Emissions Act to Enhance 45Q Tax Credit for Industrial, Power Sector Decarbonization
WASHINGTON, May 25, 2021 – U.S. lawmakers have introduced the CATCH (Coordinated Action To Capture Harmful Emissions) Act to raise the value of the 45Q tax credit that incentivizes the deployment of carbon capture technologies, rounding out a legislative policy package that could help grow US carbon management capacity 13-fold by the mid-2030s. “Carbon capture is critical to decarbonizing our global system, and we are witnessing unprecedented momentum. The bipartisan CATCH Act is an important piece…
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Scaling Up Climate Ambition: Carbon Capture, Removal, and Storage Priorities in the 117th Congress
Carbon capture, removal, and storage technologies are essential for achieving climate and net-zero emissions goals.
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CATF Experts on the IEA’s Net-Zero by 2050 Report
The IEA released a special report on Tuesday that charts the course for the global energy sector to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, marking “an historic inflection point in the global climate solutions debate,” according to Clean Air Task Force Executive Director Armond Cohen, whose full statement you can…
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European Parliament Clarifies Position on Hydrogen Strategy
CATF welcomes the adoption this afternoon by the European Parliament of its own-initiative report on the Hydrogen Strategy. The European Commission unveiled its strategy on 8 July 2020. Since hydrogen has a key role to play as a decarbonisation enabler for hard-to-electrify sectors, the Commission strategy aims to scale up…
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IEA Report Marks Historic Inflection Point, Underscoring Need for Urgent Action to Develop Carbon Free Technologies
BOSTON (May 18, 2021) – The IEA released a special report today that charts the course for the global energy sector to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, marking “an historic inflection point in the global climate solutions debate,” said Clean Air Task Force Executive Director Armond Cohen. The report, Net-Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy…
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EPA Rescission of Trump-era Cost-Benefit Rule is an Important Step Forward
The EPA has moved to rescind the Trump-era cost-benefit rule. Hayden Hashimoto, CATF Staff Attorney said: “We are pleased to see another pullback of a Trump EPA rule that was designed to impair efforts to protect public health and the environment. EPA’s action is an important step toward clearing away another Trump midnight rule that put…
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CATF Statement on Port of Rotterdam CO2 Storage Award
BRUSSELS, 2021/05/10 – The Dutch government yesterday granted €2 billion in subsidies to a consortium planning to deploy a massive new carbon capture and storage project at the Port of Rotterdam. “This is incredibly positive news, coming just a few months after the Norwegian Government invested in the Longship Project….
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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….
