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Working Paper: A Time Horizon for Counting Bioenergy Emissions
In a working paper funded by CATF, Timothy Searchinger, the lead author of several seminal publications on the climate impact of biofuels, analyzes the appropriate timeframe in which to measure bioenergy’s net GHG emissions. Searchinger concludes that even a 20-year timeframe is generous, and considers the broader implications for bioenergy’s…
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Brick Kilns Performance Assessment: A Roadmap for Cleaner Brick Production in India
India is the second largest producer of clay fired bricks, accounting for more than 10 percent of global production. India is estimated to have more than 100,000 brick kilns, producing about 150-200 billion bricks annually, employing about 10 million workers and consuming about 25 million tons of coal annually. India’s…
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The Nuclear Decarbonization Option: Profiles of Selected Advanced Reactor Technologies
We live in a world divided by many issues, but most policy-makers accept the basic premise that increasing the availability of affordable low-carbon energy would make the world healthier, wealthier, and safer. Conventional fuel delivery systems are strained in many regions, the global geopolitics of energy supply are fraught, and…
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Energy Innovation at the Department of Defense: Assessing the Opportunities
In recent years, driven by the demands of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as looming budgetary stress, the United States Department of Defense has increasingly focused on the ways in which energy affects its operations and the opportunities to improve its performance through the development and adoption of…
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Clean Diesel Versus CNG Buses: Cost, Air Quality, & Climate Impacts
This memo summarizes the results of an analysis which compares the economic, and the air quality and climate impacts, resulting from the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) transit buses to those from modern diesel buses.
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Sick of Soot: How the EPA Can Save Lives by Cleaning Up Fine Particle Air Pollution
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must soon update national health standards for fine particulate matter air pollution (PM2.5), commonly referred to as soot—a major cause of premature death and a widespread threat to those who suffer from lung and heart disease. The national health standards are critical tools that…
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Reliability-Only Dispatch: Protecting Lives & Human Health While Ensuring System Reliability
Mandated under the Clean Air Act (“CAA”), the coal- and oil-fired electric utility Air Toxics Rule creates the first ever national limits on power plant air emissions of mercury, arsenic, hydrochloric and sulfuric acids and other hazardous air pollutants (“HAPs”). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) estimates that the Rule,…
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Geoengineering and Climate Policy: Risk, Knowledge, and Inertia
