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• Climate Change Needs America’s Technology Leadership

  In December 2015, the leaders of 195 nations gathered in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference. They unanimously agreed to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. They had a further ambition to limit the global temperature rise to just 1.5 degrees, if possible. The…

  Climate, Electricity, Industry May 23, 2016

• Voluntary Methane Reduction Efforts Will Still Fall Short of Methane Reduction Goal

  On March 30th, at a session of the Global Methane Forum in Washington, DC, the EPA launched its Methane Challenge Program to encourage companies to voluntarily reduce methane emissions in the oil and gas sector. This program seeks to build on the work of the EPA Natural Gas STAR Program…

  Policy March 31, 2016

• A Week of Briefs, in Brief

  Public Health and Environmental Groups Dismantle Clean Power Plan Challenges Before the D.C. Circuit Court This week EPA, and environmental and public health organizations, as well as supportive states, power companies, and trade associations, submitted their responses to various hyperbolic challenges to the Clean Power Plan before the D.C. Circuit…

  Policy March 29, 2016

• Bipartisan Support for Advanced Energy Legislation? Yes, for CCS Incentives!

  Question: What policy can significantly reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuel consumption and at the same time, increase domestic oil production while reducing our oil imports?  And, amazingly enough, is supported by environmental groups, the fossil fuel industry, labor, Republicans and Democrats in Congress, and the Administration? Answer: Federal tax…

  Industry, Policy February 25, 2016

• Another Important Step Forward: BLM Proposes Long-Awaited Waste Rule

  The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) update to its decades-old regulations that address the waste of natural gas on Federally-managed land has been much anticipated. The wait is over—BLM’s proposed rule has finally been published, and there is much to be excited about in the…

  Policy February 11, 2016

• The Stage is Set for the Obama Administration’s Last Act on Climate

  For over seven years, the Obama Administration has pushed forward a series of policies to cut greenhouse gases from the biggest industrial sources in the U.S.  President Obama first issued a Climate Action Plan, and established a series of targets for the US to meet: 17% below 2005 levels by…

  Policy February 1, 2016

• First Aliso Canyon, Then the Rest of the Oil and Gas System

  On October 23, 2015 a massive natural gas leak was detected and subsequently demonstrated by infrared camera at the Aliso Canyon underground gas storage facility near the Porter Ranch section of Los Angeles, California.  Over 2,000 residents have been relocated away from the leak and schools in the area have…

  Policy, Technology January 16, 2016

• EPA’s Proposed Standards for New Sources of Methane Pollution: Still a Good First Step

  On Thursday, December 3, CATF joined dozens of environmental, health, business, labor and Latino organizations to deliver over 775,000 public comments to EPA on the proposed NSPS rule for methane emissions from new and modified sources in the oil and gas industry.  Boxes containing the comments (pictured below) were received…

  Policy December 3, 2015