A low-carbon fuel standard for California – part 2 – Policy report

This is an in-depth policy report of the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard.

The Executive Summary of this document explains how the LCFS is meant to “facilitate the introduction of low-carbon fuels and restrain the trend toward investments in more carbon intense transport fuels,” (p. 2).

While the Government of Canada has pushed California not to “discriminate” against tar sands oil, this report notes how ignoring the differences in upstream emissions “would invalidate the purpose of the LCFS to a significant degree, especially if feedstocks produced from more carbon intensive resources such as tar sands or coal are to be included in a single baseline,” (p. 42). Read more…..