Renewable Fuels Affiliation seeks to intervene in Authorized Problem to EU Maritime Gas Regulation.
The Renewable Fuels Affiliation filed a petition to intervene in help of a authorized problem introduced by European ethanol producers in opposition to the European Union’s FuelEU Maritime Regulation. By arbitrarily assuming crop-based biofuels like ethanol have the identical lifecycle carbon emissions because the dirtiest fossil-based marine fuels, the EU regulation successfully bans using renewable, crop-based marine fuels as a device for decarbonizing the maritime sector.
RFA’s utility to intervene within the proceedings helps the problem introduced by ePURE, a commerce affiliation representing European ethanol producers, and Pannonia Bio, one among Europe’s largest ethanol producers. Their utility seeks to annul the related provisions of the FuelEU Maritime Regulation, which was adopted by the EU in 2023 and is ready to take impact in 2025.
Geoff Cooper, RFA President and CEO mentioned:
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The FuelEU Maritime regulation is unlawfully biased in opposition to crop-based biofuels and it harms ethanol producers world wide by denying them entry to an rising low-carbon gasoline market.
“As well as, the EU’s maritime regulation is solely inconsistent with different applications, just like the Renewable Vitality Directive, wherein the EU has confirmed the low-carbon advantages and sustainability of crop-based biofuels.”
Along with interfering with biofuel commerce alternatives with European companions, Cooper mentioned the regulation would even hamper the power of U.S. producers to promote low-carbon fuels to maritime shippers in the US.
“As a result of the regulation additionally applies to ships arriving at EU ports, it should have an effect on the gasoline selections made by EU-bound ship operators once they refuel outdoors the EU,” he mentioned. “On this approach, the regulation straight discourages growth and use of low-carbon marine fuels right here within the U.S.”
RFA famous that in recent times the worldwide delivery trade has recognized ethanol, inexperienced methanol, and different renewable fuels as extremely promising options for lowering greenhouse fuel emissions from the maritime sector.
RFA’s member producers have pledged to achieve net-zero carbon emissions for ethanol by 2050 or sooner, and a 2023 survey reveals they’re on the best way to reaching that aim. U.S. grain-based ethanol at present cuts greenhouse fuel emissions considerably—typically by 50 p.c or extra in comparison with gasoline, based on the U.S. Division of Vitality’s Argonne Nationwide Laboratory.
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RFA Seeks to Intervene in Authorized Problem to EU Maritime Gas Regulation, March 29, 2024
