General Info

CATF staff consists of senior engineers, MBAs, scientists, attorneys, and communications specialists. Headquartered in Boston, we operate additional offices in in WashingtonDC, Ohio, Illinois, Maine, and New Hampshire, as well as in Beijing, China. CATF has been called "a well-respected public health and environment advocacy group" by Science Insider, a publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.CATF was launched in 1996 with a single goal: to enact federal policy to reduce the pollutants from America's coal-fired power plants that cause respiratory death and disease, smog, acid rain, and haze. When CATF began its efforts, polls showed that a majority of Americans believed most of their power came from hydroelectric dams and very little from coal. The gap between reality and perception was alarming: in fact, coal power in 1996 and still today provides roughly 50% of U.S. electricity, while hydropower provides only 7%.