The EPA Overlooks a Probability to Scale back 7 Trillion Kilos of CO2 From Our Ambiance Over Three Years
WASHINGTON, DC – Michael McAdams, President of the Superior Biofuels Affiliation (ABFA), issued the next assertion concerning the U.S. Environmental Safety Company’s (EPA) Renewable Quantity Obligations (RVOs) rule.
“The EPA’s 2023, 2024, and 2025 RVOs are a missed alternative to spend money on and increase the adoption of low-carbon superior biofuels. The ruling disagrees with research performed by quite a few organizations about America’s surging superior biofuel manufacturing capability, together with the Power Info Company, and underestimates the present and deliberate capacities of superior biofuels by a whole lot of thousands and thousands of gallons per 12 months. Superior Biofuels are required to ship larger than 50% reductions in GHG emissions and are due to this fact the simplest channel to successfully cut back carbon emissions inside the RFS program.
“To arrest local weather change, the Biden Administration ought to leverage the instruments at its disposal that may be deployed economically utilizing our current nationwide gasoline infrastructure. By selecting to not mirror the accessible and rising provide of superior biofuels on this three-year rule, the EPA is overlooking an opportunity to scale back 7 trillion kilos of CO2 from our environment. This rule reneges on the Biden Administration’s proclaimed imaginative and prescient for carbon discount.
“The Superior Biofuels Affiliation believes in an all-of-the-above resolution to our vitality and local weather challenges, inclusive of electrification and low-carbon superior biofuels. Nevertheless, the EPA’s newest ruling doesn’t totally mirror the volumes of superior, biomass-based diesel, and cellulosic fuels accessible and will discourage continued funding in sustainable fuels that ship as much as an 80% discount in emissions versus conventional fossil fuels.
“It’s disappointing that the Biden Administration’s EPA selected to not acknowledge the projected development of the biomass-based diesel pool on this rule, regardless of the groundbreaking carbon reductions being delivered by renewable diesel crops coming on-line at this time. Greater than 20 renewable diesel services have been proposed or are presently below building. Furthermore, the ABFA supplied the company with research performed by third-party analysts, which discovered that there are adequate feedstocks accessible, accounting for meals, to help a extra important improve in renewable volumes.
“Though our request for a 500-million-gallon yearly improve within the biomass-based diesel pool was not met, our trade is appreciative that the rule ramps as much as 460-million-gallons within the D4 pool by 2025. This enhance serves as an acknowledgement of the progress made by these of us concerned within the supply of renewable diesel, biodiesel, and sustainable aviation gasoline (SAF). The ABFA will proceed to work with the EPA, Division of Power (DOE), United States Division of Agriculture (USDA), and different key stakeholder teams to ship the hundreds-of-millions of gallons of superior biofuels that won’t be necessary below the RFS.”
To learn ABFA’s full feedback on the EPA’s proposal, click on right here.
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In regards to the Superior Biofuels Affiliation
Based in 2007, ABFA represents greater than 40 corporations from the U.S. and world wide who’re stakeholders within the biofuels trade. ABFA represents all sustainable aviation gasoline (SAF) presently in manufacturing in america, including to our membership’s worldwide annual manufacturing exceeding 5 billion gallons of renewable diesel, biodiesel, renewable gasoline, and renewable heating oil.
