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Comments to New York City on a Proposal to Mandate the Use of Biodiesel as a Heating Fuel
CATF letter detailing how the enactment of a proposed biodiesel mandate could result in increased net GHG emissions from city buildings.
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ENGO Letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack on Climate Impacts of Biomass Power
CATF and other NGOs point out multiple factual errors in Secretary Vilsack’s recent letter to UK Secretary Amber Rudd on biomass-based power and US export of wood pellets.
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Comments on 2017/2018 RFS Volume Proposal
In individual and joint comments submitted to EPA, CATF urges the Agency to ensure that annual biofuel consumption requirements for 2017 and 2018 do not exacerbate the environmental damage already attributable to the Renewable Fuel Standard program.
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Comments on Science Advisory Board’s Draft Report on EPA Biogenic CO2 Accounting Framework
CATF comments and multi-organization joint comments urging EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB) to fix the discussion on “temporal scale” in the SAB draft report on EPA’s proposed framework for determining the net CO2 emissions from biomass-burning power plants.
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Corn Ethanol Attacks Vermont!
When a Washington-based lobbying outfit started airing television ads in Vermont that attack Rep. Peter Welch because he wants to scale back federal support for corn ethanol, the erstwhile Vermonter in me took offense. It has been a few years since I lived in Vermont, but I’ll probably always consider…
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Comments on EPA’s Proposed RFS Pathway for Biofuel Made from Jatropha
CATF and other environmental and public health organizations push EPA to revisit its proposal to allow biofuels made from the oilseed plant jatropha curca to qualify for credits under the Renewable Fuel Standard. The comments spotlight the negative impacts of jatropha production on greenhouse gas emissions from land use change,…
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Comments on EPA’s Proposed RFS Volume Requirements for 2014-2017
In individual and joint comments submitted to EPA on the proposed “renewable volume obligations” for the Renewable Fuel Standard, CATF urges the Agency to use its full statutory authority to reduce the RFS’s annual biofuel consumption requirements below the target levels set by Congress in 2007.
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Comments to OMB on EPA’s Proposed Treatment of Biomass in the CPP
Comments from CATF and thirteen other organizations to the White House Office of Management and Budget concerning EPA’s Clean Power Plan, alerting OMB to environmental and legal problems associated with EPA’s proposed treatment of carbon dioxide emissions from biomass combustion.
