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Kate Blumberg

Katherine Blumberg

Program Director

kate@theicct.org

Works out of: San Francisco, CA

Started w/ ICCT: 7 years ago


Background
Katherine Blumberg is the Director of Climate and Health Programs and the Mexico Country Lead at the ICCT. Ms. Blumberg has worked with the ICCT since its inception, supporting improved fuel and vehicle regulatory efforts primarily in China, India and Mexico. She is currently focusing on Mexico, both supporting development of light- and heavy-duty fuel economy/GHG standards and moving to world-class conventional pollutant standards. In addition, her ongoing work supports better integration of climate and health science, policy efforts on non-CO2 climate forcers (such as black carbon and f-gases) from the transportation sector, and development of a transportation roadmap to get to dramatically reduced conventional and climate pollutant emissions. Ms. Blumberg holds an M.S. in Energy and Resources and an M.S. in Engineering, with a focus on Air Quality, both from the University of California, Berkeley.

Recent Work

  • Overview of China's vehicle emission control program

    Reports

    Thu, 2011-04-07

    A wide-ranging analysis of vehicle emissions control policies in China, evaluating successes to date and assessing potential for new vehicle and fuel standards, compliance monitoring, and impacts of advanced technologies and fuels.

  • Costs and Benefits of Reduced Sulfur Fuels in China

    White Papers

    Fri, 2006-12-29

    Use of high-sulfur fuels increases emissions and can cause important pollution control devices to fail. This analysis by ICCT and Tsinghua University found that a combination of fuel and vehicle standards will allow 1.5 million premature deaths to be avoided over 22 years, including 20,000 infant mortalities.

  • Status report concerning the use of MMT in gasoline

    Reports

    Sat, 2004-09-04

    Summarizes the direct health effects of the fuel additive methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl, as well as its effects on air quality through diminished engine performance and damage to pollution control devices.