Air Resources Board Is Clinging to Old Science
by Joe Irvin (Capitol Weekly) This week, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) convened a group of experts to discuss issues related to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) that was approved last year. The Expert Working Group has been working to examine the gaps in the original research produced by CARB staff which was used as the basis for fuel regulation, including the highly disputed indirect land use change (ILUC) theory which threatens the future of biofuels in California and across the country. The group has been meeting every few weeks over the course of this year and will provide regulatory amendments to CARB in September.
…There is now new scientific evidence that undermines the entire concept of ILUC theory. Although CARB was warned about this prior to adopting the LCFS, it moved forward with approving the regulation anyway. Even worse, CARB now has been presented with new data showing far less indirect effects than their estimate by Purdue University’s Dr. Wally Tyner – the same researcher that developed the original model adopted by CARB – yet has failed to move forward in adopting it. READ MORE and MORE (Yale Journal of Industrial Ecology) and MORE (Nebraska Corn Kernals)
