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Tag Archives: Low Carbon Fuel Standard
A Bad Rule Is Better Than No Rule?
California’s Air Resources Board will vote Thursday on its proposed numbers for the life cycle emissions of various fuels, included under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard. According to a Greenwire story picked up in the New York Times, advocates of the rule believe that it will stimulate investment in advanced biofuels, since according to the staff analysis those biofuels will be preferred for use in California. But start-up advanced biofuel producers are facing considerable economic Read More >
Unintended Consequences of California's LCFS
The LA Times today published an insightful opinion article written by Gal Luft, executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security and co-founder of the Set America Free Coalition titled “Greenhouse gas rules could fuel oil dependence” http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-luft16-2009apr16,0,2388173.story. One of the reasons many experts and stakeholders are following the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) process so closely is that in all likelihood other states and ultimately the Read More >
Biofuels & Climate Change
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Tags: biofuel, Biofuel Technology, biofuels, California Air Resources Board, climate change, Climate Change, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change, Land Use Change, life cycle analysis, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, sustainable energy
Tags: biofuel, Biofuel Technology, biofuels, California Air Resources Board, climate change, Climate Change, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change, Land Use Change, life cycle analysis, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, sustainable energy
Best Available Science?
Yesterday, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) released a report, “Biofuels: Environmental Consequences and Interactions with Changing Land Use,” based on the proceedings of its International Biofuels Project Rapid Assessment. The Environmental Working Group immediately praised the report, claiming that it “confirms that corn-based ethanol is a dead end.” (I recommend reading this response to EWG by Biofuels Digest’s Jim Lane.) Far from that confirmation, the report’s recommendations recognize that whether the Read More >
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Tags: biofuel, biofuels, California Air Resources Board, carbon debt, climate change, Climate Change, environmental protection agency, Environmental Working Group, EPA, Greenhouse Gas Emission, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change, international land use change, life cycle analysis, lifecycle analysis, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, renewable fuel standard, Robert W. Howarth, Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), Searchinger
Tags: biofuel, biofuels, California Air Resources Board, carbon debt, climate change, Climate Change, environmental protection agency, Environmental Working Group, EPA, Greenhouse Gas Emission, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change, international land use change, life cycle analysis, lifecycle analysis, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, renewable fuel standard, Robert W. Howarth, Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), Searchinger
Ethanol or Tar Sands?
Those who are pushing the inclusion of indirect land use change (ILUC) in government regulations have thus far proposed ILUC as the only indirect effect and that it only apply to biofuels. A letter from more than 100 scientists pointed out this would create unequal boundaries for transportation fuels and unfairly disadvantage biofuels. But are there indirect effects from producing gasoline? In a March 16 hearing, staff for the California Air Resources Board said they Read More >
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Tags: biofuel, biofuels, California Air Resources Board, carbon debt, climate change, Climate Change, corn ethanol, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change, international land use change, Land Use Change, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, Oil prices
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Controversy on Discounting Greenhouse Gas Emissions
On March 13, Sens. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) along with 10 others sent a new letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson urging “EPA to refrain from including any calculations of the ILUC components in determining life-cycle GHG emissions for biofuels at this time.” The new letter referenced a letter sent in November to then-Administrator Stephen Johnson, which was signed by four of the current 12 signers as well as then Sen. (now Read More >
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