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• CATF Statement on the CLEAN Future Act

  “Clean Air Task Force is encouraged to see the progress made by the House Energy and Commerce Committee leadership in creating the ‘CLEAN Future Act’ framework for a comprehensive climate bill that will achieve 100 percent decarbonization by 2050,” said Conrad Schneider, Advocacy Director of Clean Air Task Force.  “From…

  News & Media, Policy January 8, 2020

• New Orleans Renewable Portfolio Standard

  And informal comment letter in Docket. No. UD-19-01, In Re: Resolution and Order Establishing a Docket and Opening a Rulemaking to Establish Renewable Portfolio Standards

  Comments January 6, 2020

• CATF Statement on EPA’s Final 2020 RFS Biofuels Requirements

  BOSTON, December 19, 2019 – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) regulations today that establish the volume of biofuels that must be blended into the United States’ transportation fuel supply in 2020 (and 2021, for biomass-based diesel fuels). “Today’s rule is more evidence that the RFS…

  News & Media, Policy December 19, 2019

• National Petroleum Council Issues Positive Report on CCUS

  CATF says we can keep costs down and innovation up. The National Petroleum Council (NPC) released its new report on carbon capture, transport and storage this week. The report underscores the importance of carbon capture and identifies policies that would make the technology widespread across the industrial and power sectors….

  Technology December 13, 2019

• Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage: Four Critical Policy Goals

  The Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute (GCCSI) has just released its latest annual report with some positive news about new projects, but at the same time, presenting a clear-eyed view on how far and how quickly we must proceed if carbon capture, utilization & storage (CCUS) is to play…

  Infrastructure, Policy, Technology December 9, 2019

• CATF Pushes Back On Oil and Gas Deregulation

  In order to protect the public’s health and welfare from the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas sector, CATF and our partners have just strongly pushed back on the Trump Administration’s most recent efforts to deregulate the oil and gas industry. Essentially, we are stating that…

  Legal, News & Media, Policy November 25, 2019

• The Need for an Adequate Commence Construction Window for 45Q Federal Tax Credits for CCUS

  Developing a carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) project can take as long as five years and require investments of close to $50 million before construction can begin. To take advantage of the current 45Q tax credit, construction on a CCUS project must commence before January 1, 2024. Despite the…

  Fact Sheet November 20, 2019

• Memo: Modeled impacts from EPA methane rollbacks

  In 2016, U.S. EPA issued landmark standards for new and modified facilities in the oil production and natural gas production, process, and transmission and storage industries. These standards reduce methane and other harmful air pollutants from facilities they cover in several key ways. Furthermore, the promulgation of methane pollution standards…

  News & Media, Policy November 14, 2019