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• Comments on the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection’s proposed amendments to 310 CMR 7.00 Air Pollution Control

  Clean Air Task Force (“CATF”) respectfully comments on the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP” or “Department”) proposed amendments to 310 CMR 7.00 Air Pollution Control, and 310 CMR 60.00, Air Pollution Control for Mobile Sources. The proposed amendments respond to the mandates found in the Global Warming Solutions Act,…

  Comments February 24, 2017

• Comments to EPA on Proposed Renewables Enhancement and Growth Support (REGS) Rule

  In response to a series of proposed changes to the Renewable Fuel Standard, CATF urges EPA to implement CCS guidelines, reconsider the use of the short-rotation trees as an approved RFS feedstock, allocate credits to producers of biogas-derived electricity on an equitable basis, and refuse to exempt any additional biofuel…

  Comments February 16, 2017

• 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