Statement on today’s EPA Biofuels: Administration “can’t even do the right thing for the wrong reasons”

Rose Garr of Waxman Strategies criticizes the EPA's Renewable Fuel Volume Obligations for maintaining a reliance on corn ethanol and soy biodiesel while failing to increase the use of cellulosic fuels, arguing that this approach exacerbates pollution in the Gulf of Mexico and the Midwest.

• The EPA's volume rule continues the use of corn ethanol and soy biodiesel while keeping cellulosic fuel levels below the previous year's figures, contradicting an October proposal to reduce food-based biofuels.
• The current biofuels policy is linked to environmental degradation, specifically nitrate pollution and algal blooms in the Midwest, a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, and climate pollution resulting from the conversion of native ecosystems into crop production.
• There is a call for Congressional leaders to reform the Renewable Fuel Standard to prioritize environmentally beneficial biofuels over harmful ones.

APA

Garr, R. (2017). Statement on today’s EPA Biofuels: Administration “can’t even do the right thing for the wrong reasons”. Mighty Earth. https://mightyearth.org/article/statement-todays-epa-rvos-administration-cant-even-right-thing-wrong-reasons/

Chicago

Garr, Rose. Statement on today’s EPA Biofuels: Administration “can’t even do the right thing for the wrong reasons”. Mighty Earth, 2017. https://mightyearth.org/article/statement-todays-epa-rvos-administration-cant-even-right-thing-wrong-reasons/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{garr2017statement, author = {Garr, Rose}, title = {{Statement on today’s EPA Biofuels: Administration “can’t even do the right thing for the wrong reasons”}}, publisher = {Mighty Earth}, year = {2017}, month = nov, url = {https://mightyearth.org/article/statement-todays-epa-rvos-administration-cant-even-right-thing-wrong-reasons/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }