WASHINGTON, D.C.—Progress Vitality, the nation’s largest biofuel commerce affiliation, filed an amicus transient at present in a case within the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit difficult the U.S. Environmental Safety Company’s (EPA) Multi-Pollutant Emissions Requirements for Mannequin Years 2027 and Later Gentle-Obligation and Medium-Obligation Automobiles, in any other case referred to as the “tailpipe emissions rule.” Within the amicus transient, Progress Vitality famous that EPA’s rule was a missed alternative to acknowledge the optimistic influence biofuels can have on lowering tailpipe emissions.
“As Congress acknowledged when it enacted the Renewable Gas Normal (RFS) virtually twenty years in the past, biofuels supply quite a few local weather and different advantages. In comparison with petroleum, corn ethanol emits solely about half as a lot greenhouse gases (GHGs), and cellulosic ethanol, constituted of the waste elements of crops, emits even much less,” Progress Vitality stated within the amicus transient. “Ethanol and different biofuels additionally emit much less particulate matter and different pollution dangerous to human well being. And all these advantages are available proper now, all whereas enhancing power safety and supporting U.S. jobs.”
In EPA’s rule, which is designed to scale back emissions of GHGs and different pollution in autos for mannequin years 2027 and later, the company ignored biofuels and their huge, congressionally acknowledged advantages.
“EPA’s analyses handled autos that function on biofuels the identical as autos that function solely on fossil fuels. EPA did not think about using or incentivizing larger biofuel blends in autos as a method to scale back emissions. And EPA’s cost-benefit evaluation regarded solely on the employment and power safety impacts of the petroleum business, disregarding the biofuels business solely,” the amicus transient stated. “For the company that Congress entrusted to advertise biofuels, EPA’s complete failure to acknowledge biofuels within the Rule is bigoted and capricious.”
Learn Progress Vitality’s full amicus transient right here.
