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…..