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It’s Now or Never

We make many decisions every day, but some seem so much harder to make than others. As I watch industry leadership groups, fuel wholesalers, biodiesel producers and systemwide stakeholders toil with how to mainstream much-needed solutions to the ever-growing climate crisis, I grimace at the indecisiveness on strategies needed to achieve significant reductions in carbon emissions. Legislators are being squeezed from all sides to hastily enact measures that they perceive will address climate change and carbon reduction. The path of least resistance for them is electrification, whether for passenger vehicles or home heating, despite some obvious shortfalls of this approach. These legislators look to California as a low-carbon leader for inspiration and see a ban on the sale of internal combustion engines by 2035 as a bellwether of things to come. What they do not—or choose not—to see, however, is that under the State’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), renewable fuels such as sustainable, low-carbon biodiesel make up more than 80% of all the credits generated under the program. READ MORE

ICM May 1, 2021 by Paul J. Nazzaro

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