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Experience Exchange: Learning from India’s waste management success
Over the past 20 years, India has taken important steps to strengthen its solid waste management systems, from policy changes to improved technical and implementation support at the national, state, and local level. This month, as part of the WasteMAP initiative, CATF’s methane pollution prevention team traveled there with representatives…
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Geothermal Supply Chain
The Opportunity Advancements from the oil and gas sector, especially in directional drilling and well design, are driving innovation in geothermal development.1 Next-generation geothermal can drive American energy abundance, support energy security, and provide 24/7 clean firm baseload power to the grid with adequate support across the value chain.2 Today’s conventional…
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Considerations for Foreign Entity of Concern (FEOC) Guidance
New Foreign Entity of Concern (FEOC) restrictions, which apply to multiple tax credits including the Investment and Production Tax Credits (45Y and 48E) and the advanced manufacturing credit (45X) among others, require clear, administrable guidance from the U.S. Department of Treasury to avoid unintentionally limiting U.S. energy developers’ ability to…
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Next steps for Article 23: How penalties can give teeth to the European Union’s CO2 storage obligation on oil and gas producers
In 2024, the EU broke new ground by requiring oil and gas producers to start building the CO₂ storage infrastructure needed to reach its climate goals. Under the Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA), these companies must deliver 50 million tonnes of annual CO2 injection capacity by 2030 — a target critical…
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EPA proposal ignores indisputable science, threatening public health and climate protections
WASHINGTON – Clean Air Task Force (CATF), along with partner organizations, submitted comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to its proposal to repeal the greenhouse gas endangerment finding and over a decade of motor vehicle greenhouse gas standards. “The proposal to rescind the endangerment finding is…
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Early net-zero action in Africa brings big climate gains—and development challenges, CATF finds
New research from Clean Air Task Force (CATF) explores how different timelines for achieving net-zero emissions could shape Africa’s energy, land, water, and development future. The study, Exploring Net-Zero Emissions Pathways for Africa Across Different Timelines, uses the Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM) to examine how various levels of climate…
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An introduction to the next clean energy frontier: Superhot rock geothermal and successes from the Iceland Deep Drilling Project
This blog is part of a series exploring and explaining the science behind next-generation geothermal, with a special focus on Superhot Rock Geothermal, through a curated tour of influential technical and academic papers. This edition highlights key features of the World Geothermal Congress Proceeding by Friðleifsson et al. (2021) The IDDP success story – Highlights. The full blog series, in…
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EPA proposal to repeal greenhouse gas reporting undermines transparency and accountability
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed a proposed rule to suspend all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting for the oil and gas sector until 2034. The proposal would also eliminate greenhouse gas reporting requirements entirely for every other industry. “EPA’s proposal to gut greenhouse gas reporting requirements is reckless and…
