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U.S.
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EPA sued over repeal of power plant carbon reduction rules
Environmental and public health groups sued to stop the Environmental Protection Agency’s repeal of critical standards for power plant carbon pollution.
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New CATF report identifies how states in deregulated power markets can achieve long-term clean energy goals with state-led planning and procurement
A new report from Clean Air Task Force identifies how establishing state-led planning and procurement can help state governments in deregulated electricity markets meet their power sector decarbonization goals and lays out the components needed to put that planning in action.
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State-Led Planning, Development, and Procurement
This report identifies how establishing state-led planning and procurement can help state governments in deregulated electricity markets meet their power sector decarbonization goals and lays out the components needed to put that planning in action.
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EPA eliminates pollution limits for power plants, abandoning its obligation to protect public health and welfare
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its repeal of the 2024 carbon pollution standards for existing coal-fired and new gas-fired power plants.
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Court strikes down DOE’s unlawful coal plant order in win for public health
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down the Department of Energy’s (DOE) unlawful May 2025 order that forced the J.H. Campbell power plant in Michigan to remain open beyond its planned retirement.
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New federal funding opportunity for geothermal should prioritize extreme environments and deeper drilling
At a time when the United States needs abundant, reliable, and affordable clean energy to meet rising electricity demand, strengthen domestic industries, and sustain economic growth, this funding opportunity can help accelerate the subsurface breakthroughs needed to make next-generation geothermal a scalable contributor to both climate progress and long-term economic prosperity.
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NEPA by the Numbers
Clean Air Task Force (CATF) and data scientist Kasey Zapatka partnered to analyze the National Environmental Policy Act Text Corpus (NEPATEC) 2.0 dataset collated by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s PermitAI project, the largest publicly available dataset of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documents, including categorical exclusions, environmental assessments, and…
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Coal power plant air pollution linked to over 6,600 premature deaths and $100 billion in damages annually, new CATF analysis finds
Clean Air Task Force (CATF) released an updated analysis of its Toll from Coal modeling tool, which analyzes nearly 200 coal-fired power plants that emit thousands of tons of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide.
