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Public Comment Period Begins on EPA’s Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft)

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of a draft document entitled Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft) for public comment. The draft report is responsive to Section 204 of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA). Bergeson and Carla N.

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EPA Announces Proposed RFS for 2023-2025, Will Hold Public Hearing in January

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The RFS “Set” proposal requests public input on required volumes of biofuel for the next one to three years and on a series of modifications intended to strengthen and expand the program. EPA states that this proposal includes steady growth of biofuels for use in the nation’s fuel supply for 2023 , 2024 , and 2025.

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National Clean Energy Week Recap

Cresforum

imports peaked in 2007. biofuels, and fossil fuels. Modeling Pathways to Net Zero: A Case Study on Energy Security as the U.S. Decarbonizes The United States’ energy security has changed dramatically since U.S. As the U.S. need to deploy clean energy technologies to achieve net zero emissions? decarbonizes in a vacuum.

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EPW Holds Hearing On RFS

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While Senator Carper demonstrated continued support for the RFS program, he also noted that “[f]or example, the amount of advanced renewable fuel used today in this country is far less than the 36 billion gallons that Congress mandated in 2007 be used by 2022.

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Oil Companies Plan to Take the Road Already Traveled

Union of Concerned Scientists

The report also says ExxonMobil expanded its Low Carbon Solutions business—spun out as a separate company in 2021—by “focusing on competitively advantaged opportunities in carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, and biofuels.” Fighting climate disclosure, especially Scope 3 emissions The U.S.

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The Real Cost of Food

Acoel

For example, between 2007 and 2012, 7.8 Less than a quarter of cropland is devoted to food directly eaten by humans, with the rest going to mostly to animal feed and biofuel feedstock, and it takes many pounds of grains to produce a pound of beef. Today, very little agricultural land provides these important environmental benefits.

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EPA Releases Final Rule Setting Biofuels Growth from 2023 to 2025

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a final rule under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program that will establish the biofuel volume requirements from 2023 to 2025. The final volume targets (billion Renewable Identification Numbers (RIN)) are as follows: 2023 2024 2025 Cellulosic biofuel 0.84 Advanced biofuel 5.94