superhot rock energy – Clean Air Task Force
Bruce Hill While the decarbonization debate rages on, the seeds of a quiet geothermal energy revolution are being sown. As described in our October 2021 report, superhot rock energy holds the potential to tap into earth’s inexhaustible heat resources to generate widely available, affordable, energy dense, zero-carbon, firm power and hydrogen at scale — energy […]
Meet Jim Morris, Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief, Public Health Watch
Jim Morris is the Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief of Public Health Watch, a nonpartisan investigative news site focused on the prevention of illness, injury and premature death. Public Health Watch’s coverage of health inequities, environmental injustice and the impact of pollution on communities includes this in-depth look at toxic air pollution in Harris County, Texas. […]
Supreme Court takes key tool out of EPA’s toolbox, but multiple options remain for agency to regulate climate pollution – Clean Air Task Force
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court issued its opinion today in West Virginia v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), ruling that the pollution control system EPA employed as the basis for the 2015 Clean Power Plan was outside its authority to regulate emissions from power plants. While the opinion “takes a key tool out of EPA’s […]
CATF to provide testimony before U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis – Clean Air Task Force
WASHINGTON — Sarah Smith, Chief of Programs at Clean Air Task Force, will testify this week at a Congressional hearing on the importance of cutting methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, highlighting the urgent need to rapidly reduce methane emissions to immediately slow the rate of global warming while limiting harmful air pollution […]
Stronger national fine particle air pollution standards will provide significant health benefits and reduce disparities
This blog is co-authored by Taylor Bacon, Analyst, US Clean Air and Climate; Maria Harris, Senior Scientist; and Mindi DePaola, Program Manager, Office of the Chief Scientist. A new EDF report finds that strengthening federal protections for fine particle air pollution (PM2.5) to 8 µg/m3 will have large health benefits and reduce air pollution-related health […]
President Biden announces new global efforts to reduce methane emissions, advance clean energy, and decarbonize transportation to address climate change and improve energy security at Major Economies Forum
WASHINGTON — President Biden announced a series of global initiatives to increase energy security and address climate change at the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF) today, including efforts to capture fugitive methane emissions and dramatically cut natural gas flaring under the Global Methane Pledge, advance critical clean energy technologies like carbon capture, […]
Introducing Air Tracker: A backward take on air quality to pinpoint sources
EDF’s new Air Tracker tool allows us to better understand how local air pollution behaves, illuminating the path it takes from a likely source area. Because this tool allows us to look backwards at where pollution likely originated, it shifts the focus, putting communities and people first. Developing it required a shift in thinking. Most […]
Governments across the Americas showcase methane leadership at Summit of the Americas – Clean Air Task Force
LOS ANGELES — Governments across the Americas showcased their leadership on methane today at a convening at the Summit of the Americas, “sending an important signal that the Americas are committed to tackling climate change and ready to pull one of the best levers we have to reduce global warming now,” according to Jonathan Banks, […]
CATF provides EPA with guidance to decarbonize U.S. power sector – Clean Air Task Force
WASHINGTON — Clean Air Task Force (CATF) harnessed its legal and technical expertise in the Clean Air Act, power sector, and climate pollution abatement to provide the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with detailed comments in response to its Draft White Paper: Available and Emerging Technologies for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Combustion Turbine Electric Generating […]
Clean Air Council’s Weekly Round-up of Transportation News.
The Hub 6/3/2022: Clean Air Council’s Weekly Round-up of Transportation News. Washington Avenue in South Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY). Image Source: PlanPhilly “The Hub” is a weekly round-up of transportation related news in the Philadelphia area and beyond. Check back weekly to keep up-to-date on the issues Clean Air Council’s transportation staff finds important. PlanPhilly: Latest […]