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• Canada Takes a Big Step Forward on Cutting Methane Pollution

  On May 25, Catherine McKenna, the Minister for Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) announced the next phase of Canada’s efforts to address the needless waste of natural gas by cutting methane pollution from the country’s oil and gas sector.

  Policy May 25, 2017

• Science 101 for Administrator Pruitt

  Tomorrow the Earth Day March for Science will happen on the National Mall in DC, and over 500 satellite marches will take place in other locations around the world.  Like most of those marching, we never thought we would need to make the case for integrity in environmental science. It…

  Climate, Policy April 21, 2017

• Not So Fast, Mr. Trump

  Donald Trump, accompanied by Scott Pruitt and Ryan Zinke, today signed a comprehensive and sweeping Executive Order purporting to roll back multiple final rules and Executive actions of his predecessor aimed at dealing with the climate and other environmental impacts of developing US coal and natural gas and oil. But…

  Policy March 28, 2017

• A Good Start for Massachusetts on Clean Energy, but Lots More to Do

  Massachusetts steps up to the climate challenge, embracing a technology neutral approach to its clean energy standard – but the Commonwealth can go further, and must to meet global warming solutions act requirements. Given rapidly changing federal policy on combating climate change, it is all the more important that states…

  Policy, Technology March 7, 2017

• Don’t Let the Senate Waste the BLM Methane Rule!

  On February 3, the House of Representatives passed a resolution under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to kill the Methane Waste Rule — a recent Bureau of Land Management (BLM) effort to restrict the waste of natural gas from oil and gas development on federal and tribal lands.  A companion…

  Policy February 6, 2017

• Clean Power Plan Oral Arguments: After All That – Nothing New

  Seven grueling hours of questioning and debate later (not to mention overnight camping and hours of line-standing for those trying to attend), it can be said that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals had studied the briefs carefully and yesterday drained dry the bottle containing all the Clean Power Plan…

  Policy September 28, 2016

• The RFS, the Rebound Effect, and an Additional 431 Million Tons of CO2

  There’s a quirk of macroeconomics known as the rebound effect, and it can be a bit of a drag. When the price of a widely used commodity falls, consumers tend to use more of it. In most cases, that’s a good thing. But sometimes the price drop is the unintended…

  Policy September 13, 2016

• Flying Blind: EPA Can’t Start Fixing the RFS Until It Stops Ignoring the Problems

  Before we dig into the new report on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to conduct “an objective analysis on the environmental impacts and unintended consequences of U.S. biofuel policy,” or how that report echoes the Clean Air Task Force’s long-held position that EPA has not adequately assessed the negative…

  Policy August 19, 2016