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Super Pollutants
Reducing Methane from Oil and Gas: A Path to a 65% Reduction in Sector Emissions
Given the urgency of the climate crisis, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should very rapidly put in place methane emissions standards at new and existing oil and natural gas sites, nationwide. In this memo, we describe how ambitious regulations can readily reduce methane emissions in 2025 from oil and gas to at least 65% below
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Super Pollutants
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 from these new and modified […]
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Super Pollutants
A Comparative Assessment of Alberta’s Oil and Gas Methane Emissions Under the ECCC rules and AER’S Draft Directive 060
Based on new comprehensive modeling, Alberta’s draft methane regulations will reduce far less harmful methane pollution than if Alberta’s oil and gas producers followed the federal methane regulations enacted earlier this year by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). This analysis is based on emissions estimates and models provided directly by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC).
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Super Pollutants
Modeled Impacts of Oil and Gas on Air Quality and Human Health
The primary goal of this modeling study is to estimate the modeled impacts on U.S. air quality and human health, of emissions associated with the Oil and Gas (O&G) sector.
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Super Pollutants
Buying Time: Controlling Black Carbon and Methane Emissions in the Arctic
The Arctic is unraveling. Since the mid-1960s, the annual mean surface temperature over Arctic land areas has increased by more than two degrees Celsius, almost twice the global average rate of change and the environmental “tipping point” for international climate change negotiations.
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Policy
CPP Rate Merger
EPA must retain the requirement that rate-based states seeking to engage in interstate trading merge their target emission rates.
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Power Plants
Comments on the Draft Notification on Air Emission Standards for Coal-Based Thermal Power Plants
The Clean Air Task Force welcomes the initiative of Prime Minister Modi’s government to release the proposed Air Emission Standards for Coal-Based Thermal Power Plants by the Government of India, Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change.
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Bioenergy
Corn Butanol: Economics and Performance of Gevo’s Technology
Butanol made from corn starch poses many of the same climate threats associated with corn ethanol.
