Testimonies

CATF Attorney Hayden Hashimoto testified at a virtual public meeting of the EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) providing support and suggestions regarding the SAB’s report on EPA’s Guidelines for Preparing Economic Analyses. Read the full testimony below.

CATF Legal Director Ann Weeks testified at an EPA virtual public hearing on the Revised Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Update in support of further reductions of nitrogen oxide emissions from industry that would alleviate localized pollution that disproportionately harms low-income people and persons of color, as well as ozone pollution problems in downwind states. Read […]

CATF Senior Counsel, Jonathan Lewis, gave testimony during a hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources on Offshore Energy Technologies. Watch Jonathan Lewis’s opening statement and read the full testimony below.

Good afternoon. My name is Alan Masinter and I am an attorney with the Clean Air Task Force, a nonprofit organization devoted to the protection of the air and climate. The Clean Air Act requires a primary, health-based standard at a level “requisite to protect the public health” with “an adequate margin of safety” in […]

Watch Armond Cohen’s opening statement before the United States Senate Environment and Public Works Committee during their hearing on the discussion draft of the Advanced Nuclear Infrastructure Act of 2020. Full video of this hearing can be viewed on the Senate EPW website. SUMMARY OF TESTIMONY Decarbonizing America’s economy by midcentury is a stiff challenge. […]

Comments of Hayden Hashimoto; Clean Air Task Force, Legal Fellow at Public Hearing on Proposed Review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter.

Testimony of Armond Cohen Before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy on March 3rd, 2020.

Read the testimony of Sarah Ann Smith, MESc, Clean Air Task Force On October 17, 2019 for EPA Hearing on Proposed Policy Amendments to 2012 and 2016 New Source Performance Standards for the Oil and Natural Gas Industry.