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Clean Electricity Payment Program and EPA Performance Standards: Beautiful dance partners
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change provides the strongest statement yet on the climate impacts.
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Complete rethink of U.S. electricity transmission is needed, finds new report
A newly released report outlines a wide range of options for revamping U.S. transmission oversight, planning, and permitting.
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House vote on bipartisan infrastructure package and budget reconciliation process an encouraging step forward
The House voted to approve the $3.5 trillion Budget Resolution, and adopted a rule for consideration of the $1 trillion infrastructure bill.
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Regulating Flaring and Venting of Associated Gas
Gas flaring is a waste of gas and results in unnecessary emissions of methane, CO2, and pollutants such as particulate matter that directly harm human health. The EPA is working on strengthening regulations of methane from the oil and gas operations, and must address routine flaring as part of that…
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Senate advances bipartisan infrastructure package, a necessary first step on climate action in this Congress
GLASGOW — The U.S. Senate passed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act with a decisive 69-30 vote on Tuesday morning, teeing up the House to consider the package later this year. The Act clears the decks in the Senate for Democrats to begin working in earnest on a budget…
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CATF statement on opposition to Supreme Court review of American Lung Ass’n v. EPA
Sixteen public health, environmental, and clean energy organizations today filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court
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Carbon capture in the U.S. is growing like never before, but further policy support is crucial
Since the passage of the 45Q tax credit in 2018, there has been unprecedented interest in carbon capture, utilization, and storage in the United States. Clean Air Task Force has tracked more than 40 new project announcements with our U.S. Carbon Capture Activity and Project Map, tracking project information in…
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We need federal action, but not a blank check, to counter the premature retirement of nuclear plants
Nuclear energy, which the Intergovernmental Program on Climate Change (IPCC) includes in all of its potential pathways to keeping global warming below 1.5 C, provides more than half the clean electricity generated in the U.S. It also offers the 28 states that have at least one commercial nuclear reactor a base of clean energy to build upon to achieve future…
