Environmentalist Groups Letter Urges EPA to Act on Emissions and Indirect Land Use for Biofuels

GrainNet.com
Date Posted: November 12, 2008

Washington—The Environmental Protection Agency must accurately account for global warming emissions from biofuels when implementing the new renewable fuel standard, leading environmental and science groups said in a letter they sent November 10 to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson.

In last year's energy bill, Congress explicitly required the EPA to accurately measure global warming emissions from renewable fuels based on their entire lifecycle, from cultivation to fuel production to vehicle exhaust.

However, industry trade groups and others are pressuring EPA to omit or delay accounting for greenhouse gas emissions from land use change, such as tropical deforestation, tied to expanding biofuels production.

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