But red states appear to be getting their money restored. Just today Montana Renewables was told their $1.4 billion loan guarantee to produce so-called "sustainable" aviation fuel is reinstated.

Huge deforested areas in the tropics could regenerate naturally, study finds, if nature is allowed to simply take back control.

We begged the California Air Resources Board to reform the LCFS to not subsidize biofuels with fake climate benefits and real pollution. Sad that they appeased the refineries and big ag, ignoring the recs of their own environmental justice advisory council and making this lawsuit necessary.

BREAKING we're taking @airresources.bsky.social to court on behalf of Communities for a Better Environment over the broken Low Carbon Fuel Standard, which would waste billions on polluting biofuels instead of accelerating California's transition to EVs and cleaner air.

The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a district court ruling in the nation’s first constitutional climate change trial , affirming that the youth plaintiffs have a “fundamental constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment”
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With one hand Big Ag and the biofuel industry willingly accept $billions in subsidies from the CA LCFS, and with the other they sue to remove California's clean vehicle waiver. It is time for CARB to recognize the harms of biofuels and end this one-sided relationship.

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Oil and biofuel groups challenging California waiver clean cars waiver . Why is CARB still supporting biofuels?

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Excellent and welcome paper full of useful factoids on role of soil in past and present climate warming (soils = 15% of climate warming; soil cycles 7% of total atmospheric C annually). A bit hard at times to keep track of cumulative vs current contributions, but key messages sound and on point.

GWP* is a dangerous distraction. The goal of climate action is not to be satisfied with a steady methane concentration in the atmosphere that is well above pre-industrial levels, but rather to stop polluting the atmosphere so that methane concentration can return to pre industrial levels.

See that is the problem. CA is willing to largely ignore all of the costs of biofuels (e.g., nitrate pollution in Midwest, air pollution in Cancer Alley, tropical deforestation, increased hunger) because biofuels score a zero in the CA GHG inventory and these costs mostly occur out-of-state.

Gorgon CCS is the world's largest pure carbon capture and storage operation. Since 2019, it has been weakly sputtering away out on Barrow Island at Australia's highest emitting industrial facility.

You may have heard it's a failure. Do you know why it's a failure?

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Yes, Indonesia is number 2. Not sure of all the drivers, but land for agriculture / biofuel would be number 1 I think.

CA displaced 75% of its diesel with renewable diesel and biodiesel (see LCFS data ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/defaul...). If the world follows CA’s example, an additional ~1 billion MT of vegetable oil must be produced, which is 5X the current worldwide production. RD and BD is a false climate solution.

An excellent report on Trump tariffs by Laura Duffy! But maybe I'm biased :) www.progressivepolicy.org/ppi-report-w...

Agreed, there is just so much pain the California consumer will endure. By recently doubling-down on liquid biofuels, CARB missed a big opportunity to further the State's long-term zero emission transportation goals while minimizing the economic impact on lower income California drivers.

Thanks for the reminder. I find it very troubling that our government (EPA, USDA, CARB) now believes that these same fossil fuel companies working together with Big Ag are going to help solve the climate crisis by producing "renewable" diesel and "sustainable" aviation fuel. When will we learn...

The world needs more people with this level of integrity @deevybee.bsky.social