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Opinion: A More Level Playing Field for Advanced Biofuels

Clean Fleet Report

In our national effort to reduce carbon emissions, we need a practical, all-of-the-above strategy to help us achieve America’s climate ambitions. However, America’s clean energy transition has been characterized by siloed thinking and inflexibility despite significant advances in low-carbon fuel alternatives.

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Opinion: Alternatives to the RFS

Green Car Congress

There are options for continuing our commitment towards renewable fuels to secure US energy requirements. Carbon Intensity. California implemented its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) starting in 2010 as part of its effort to regulate CO 2 emissions on top of the fuel blending requirements. Let’s look a few here.

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Can Alt-Fuel Credits Accelerate EV Adoption?

Cars That Think

A more recent study found that, since the program coaxed farmers into using more land for corn cultivation, RFS biofuel wasn’t actually any less carbon-intensive than gasoline. Amidst a backdrop of rising fuel prices, the Biden administration might bring the RFS its greatest shakeup yet. In 2016, a U.S. Now, it is 2022. says Nunes.

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