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CATF, other groups push EPA to protect natural landscapes from biofuel crop expansion
Clean Air Task Force and Earthjustice filed a petition on behalf of 11 environmental organizations demanding that the Environmental Protection Agency protect prairies and other natural habitats from being plowed under for the purpose of growing more biofuel crops.
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CATF Statement on EPA’s Final 2019 RFS Biofuels Requirements
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) regulations that establish the volume of biofuels that must be blended into the United States’ transportation fuel supply in 2019 (and 2020, for biomass-based diesel fuels).
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Comments on the treatment of biomass-based power generation in EPA’s Proposed ACE Rule
CATF and eight other organizations urge EPA to withdraw its proposal to treat the combustion of biomass from managed forests as carbon neutral.
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More Ethanol, More Problems
The ethanol industry produces more ethanol than the US fuel market can readily use.
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Comments on 2019/2020 RFS Volume Proposal
Two sets of comments from CATF and a coalition of national and international public interest groups on the Renewable Fuel Standard’s Renewable Volume Obligations for 2019/2020. In both the full comments (six groups) and the abridged comments (18 groups), we urge EPA to reduce the proposed consumption requirements for environmentally-damaging…
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EPA’s Report on the Environmental Impacts of Biofuels
We’ve waded through the various and sundry mistakes Congress made in 2007 when it dramatically expanded the size and the duration of the US Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) as part of the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA).
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CATF Statement on EPA’s Proposed 2019 RFS Biofuels Requirements
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) regulations that establish the amount of biofuels that must be blended into the United States’ transportation fuel supply in 2019 (and 2020, for biomass-based diesel fuels).
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Biofuels Coalition Press Release on Welch/Udall RFS Reform Bills
Seeking to break through the deadlocked discussions between oil interests and the corn ethanol industry, conservation groups signaled their strong support for bills introduced today in the U.S. House and Senate to reform the Renewable Fuel Standard and reverse the damage that the law—known as the biofuel mandate—has caused since…
