It is embarrassing to be an American. If we experience another 9/11 attack nobody will care, nor should they.

Agreed. 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.

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Making matters worse, those same emission reductions will likely generate credit under California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard. So not only will Eneos be offsetting their emissions, but also a California refiner will be offsetting their emissions. Two for one, not a bad deal for Oxy.

Under the RFS, dairy gas is considered a cellulosic biofuel, which means it has been determined to achieve at least a 60% GHG reduction as compared to the petroleum baseline. Biogas from landfills, wastewater treatment facility digesters, and agricultural digesters all meet the cellulosic category.

It is unfortunate that this article claims as fact that biodiesel reduces GHG emissions as compared to heating oil. It is well documented that the carbon intensity of biodiesel is highly uncertain and may very well be greater than heating oil.

And now the US Renewable Fuel Standard and California LCFS are incentivizing major oil companies to import record quantities of "used cooking oil" from China to produce "low-carbon renewable" diesel. Anybody see the risk there...

One point that I would add is that the cruelty of factory farms, and particularly poultry farms, is appalling.

One possibility: After the initial LCFS adoption, POET successfully sued on CEQA and APA grounds. The Court left the LCFS in place but froze the regulation at 2013 standards until CARB readopted the LCFS and ADF regs in 2015. See discussion on page 1-2:

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Drone's eye view of your roof and swimming pool?

"We never expected a perfectly shaped curve over time. The 35% is an ideal number," said Dave Clegern, a spokesperson for the California Air Resources Board, which set regulations to enforce Newsom's mandate. 🤣

Similarly, 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.

Sure, the metal concentration will no longer be increasing in the lake, but that is not the goal - the goal is to stop polluting the lake so that metal concentrations and resulting toxicity will return to zero.

Thank you for this article. GWP* is akin to a factory releasing toxic metal pollution into a lake and saying they have achieved "toxicity neutrality" when the rate at which they release metals to the lake is equal to the rate at which the previously released metals leave the lake via the river.

Dairy emissions in California could be addressed by regulating the dairies and not through the LCFS. A properly designed dairy regulation could result in emission reductions focused on the California dairy industry and provide incentive for alternative manure management instead of just digesters.