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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.

  Comments September 20, 2016

• 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.

  Comments July 13, 2016

• 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.

  Comments July 11, 2016

• 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.

  Comments March 13, 2016

• 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,…

  Comments November 12, 2015

• 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.

  Comments July 15, 2015

• 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.

  Comments June 23, 2015

• Comments on California ARB’s ILUC Review

  In response to the California Air Resource Board’s ongoing review of indirect land use change (ILUC) emissions and their effect on the carbon intensity calculations for biofuels, CATF shared its analyses of recent studies that examine water availability, yields, and other key factors that influence ILUC.

  Comments May 19, 2015