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ASA expresses concern to CARB in a letter on LCFS

The American Soybean Association wants the California Air Resources Board to make modifications to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard.

Board member and Iowa farmer David Walton says the current rule will reduce the expansion of soybean-based biofuels.

They’re using outdated data on the carbon intensity scoring, ” he says. “We want them to update it and we thought we had a pathway to get that updated, but in this new proposed rule they’ve actually backpedaled on that.”
 
He tells Brownfield farmers are concerned about the new additions to the proposal.

“They decided at the kind of the last minute to make a vegetable oil cap in that at 25%, which there has not been a cap,” he says. “About 30% of the fuel volume in California is produced from vegetable oil, so they’re going to actually cut the supply of vegetable oil going into that state.”

Walton says there is still time for CARB to address ASA’s concerns before the final rule is released.