Can plan based biofuels overcome sustainability concerns and enter US market?

May 18, 2012 |

In Washington, the Obama Administration will tussle shortly over the future of palm oil-based biofuels in the US.  At issue: whether both direct and indirect land use change that is the result of palm’s expansion in Indonesia, should be enough to ban the otherwise climate-friendly feedstock from the US.

Palm producers are on notice to demonstrate a 20 percent reduction in fossil fuel emissions to qualify under the US renewable fuel standard—and sites like Care2.com are howling that the EPA is using 2003-era data to make its determination, contending that the recent performance of the palm industry in Indonesia is even worse.

 

 

Category: Policy

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