Sentences with phrase «fuel standard mandated»

The Obama administration seems to agree, granting $ 786 million in 2009 for biofuels research and setting up the Biofuels Interagency Working Group to study how best to meet the renewable fuel standard mandated by Congress that will require increasing the amount of renewable fuels, such as ethanol, to 36 billion gallons by 2022.

Scheduled increases in the Renewable Fuel Standard mandating a tripling of U.S. biofuels production in the next decade would precipitate a massive shift of resources toward biofuels, devastating vast lands, disrupting food markets and jacking up CO2 emissions.

First, restrictions on trade are not normally good, but the fact that much of ethanol consumption is due to the renewable fuel standard mandate (and not market forces) complicates things.

Not exact matches

At a more microscopic level, there's a very good chance that Pruitt will direct the EPA to roll back mandated changes to increased fuel - economy standards, benefitting the traditional auto industry.

His energy policy will likely favor the fossil - fuel industry, and his EPA will probably back off on the higher fuel - economy standards that are mandated for automakers — and that have spurred electric - car development.

«Mandating tough fuel economy standards on auto manufacturers will do far more to reduce greenhouse emissions than a tax,» wrote one CEO.

Mandates like the U.S. renewable fuel standard, which calls for production of 36 billion gallons per year by 2022, are useful in promoting low - carbon fuels, like waste vegetable oil for biodiesel, said Malins.

In 2005 and 2007, energy legislation was passed that increased the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and also created a number of Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Agriculture funding vehicles (grants and loan guarantees) to help the biofuels industry meet mandated production goals.

However, today we rely on government programs like fuel - efficiency standards for light - duty vehicles and renewable portfolio mandates for utilities to help reduce CO2 emissions.

To help their makers meet mandated fuel economy gains, the Ram 1500 gets a standard 48 - volt system for its V - 6, optional in the Hemi, and loses about 275 pounds, while the new Chevy Silverado gets a new diesel and a rumored 2.7 - liter twin - turbo I - 4, and loses 450 pounds thanks to its mixed - material construction.

Since then, the company has been assessing how much it would cost to produce the car and what effect an increase in government - mandated corporate average fuel economy standards might have on the project.

On one hand, the downturn may give policymakers the incentive to obscure the costs of climate regulation, leading to the adoption of a patchwork of regulatory requirements, a low carbon fuel mandate, a renewable portfolio standard, and other measures that would be significantly more costly than a simple price on carbon.

Market - based principles should guide policymakers away from top - down, government - mandated ventures such as the flawed Renewable Fuel Standard — which could force higher ethanol blend fuels into the national supply, potentially damaging vehicle engines and saddling consumers with repair costs.

In 2012 the Barack Obama administration introduced emission standards mandating the doubling of vehicle fuel efficiency by 2025.

The debate over biofuels and economics has tended to focus on mandates and subsidies rather than carbon taxes — unsurprisingly, given the absence of carbon - taxing in the U.S. and the prevalence of large biofuel subsidies, primarily via the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Now the Obama Administration is unleashing a host of new mandates and standards, based on arbitrary «social cost of carbon» calculations that assume fossil fuel use imposes numerous climate and other costs, but brings minimal or no economic or societal benefits.

«The resolution as it passed it would apply not only to all vehicle types but it would also apply to subsidies and mandates of all fuel types, so that would include, for example, the renewable fuel standard,» Ebell, who chaired President Trump's EPA transition team, said.

Namely, matching the biodiesel mandate in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) more closely to the amount of biodiesel actually produced in -LSB-...]

In recent years, politicians set impossibly high mandates for the amounts of ethanol motorists must buy in 2022 while also setting impossibly high standards for the fuel economy of cars sold in 2025.

But, Sivak and Schoettle are also quick to point out that despite the short - term decrease in fuel economy of U.S. new vehicle purchases, the average fuel economy is slowly marching upward thanks to better engineering and lighter cars pushed by federally mandate CAFE standards.

After major advances in the late 1970s, fuel economy stagnated and even regressed for several decades, despite the law's mandate to set fuel economy standards at the «maximum feasible level.»

Control costs through efficiency standards and encouraging a diverse portfolio of generating fuels, but avoid mandates to deploy expensive technologies.

If the ethanol mandate in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) required more, then you're running into the ethanol «blend wall» — that is, to satisfy the RFS, refiners would have to blend fuel with higher ethanol content than millions of vehicles are designed to Fuel Standard (RFS) required more, then you're running into the ethanol «blend wall» — that is, to satisfy the RFS, refiners would have to blend fuel with higher ethanol content than millions of vehicles are designed to fuel with higher ethanol content than millions of vehicles are designed to use.

The biofuels / ethanol debate has moved over to National Journal's Energy Experts Blog, with this week's posts addressing whether the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) that mandates biofuel use should be left alone, amended or repealed.

Signed by 169 House members, the letter sent to McCarthy on Thursday urged the EPA to lower the renewable fuel standard (RFS), arguing the current mandate is unrealistic.

The fierce opposition comes chiefly from the U.S. environmental lobby, which has awakened to one of the most colossal environmental mistakes in its history: the ethanol mandate, part of America's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which effectively mandates that 10 per cent of gasoline at the pump consists of ethanol.

One item on the President's schedule today is a meeting to discuss ethanol mandates and the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Let's update an informative chart that's critical in the continuing discussion of E15 fuel and the ethanol mandates of the Renewable Fuel Standard (Rfuel and the ethanol mandates of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFuel Standard (RFS).

The politics of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and its mandates for ever - increasing ethanol use are on display this weekend in Iowa, a key presidential primary state.

Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards (CAFE), the official title of the U.S. fuel efficiency mandate, is one of the more outdated laws still on the boFuel Economy standards (CAFE), the official title of the U.S. fuel efficiency mandate, is one of the more outdated laws still on the bofuel efficiency mandate, is one of the more outdated laws still on the books.

Agency's Mismanagement Highlights Need to Repeal the Mandate WASHINGTON — American Energy Alliance President Thomas Pyle issued the following statement on EPA's 2014 - 2016 volume requirements for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS): «EPA bureaucrats continue to prove they are incapable of managing the RFS.

Renewable fuels have been mandated under federal law for over a decade, since the passage of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), and current RFS policy is broken, outdated and ineffective.

But this scenario tells us nothing about what really matters — whether ethanol's policy privileges, especially the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), a.k.a., the ethanol mandate, benefit or harm consumers.

Congress helped bolster the corn ethanol business in Iowa by mandating the Renewable Fuel Standard in 2005.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, American Energy Alliance President Thomas Pyle released the following statement in response to Hillary Clinton's «plan for a vibrant rural America,» which includes transitioning the Renewable Fuel Standard into a mandate for so - called «advanced» and cellulosic biofuels: «Hillary Clinton's «plan for a vibrant rural America» actually harms rural America.

By favoring costly, non-existent cellulosic biofuels over corn - based ethanol, Clinton's fuel mandate would resemble California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCfuel mandate would resemble California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFuel Standard (LCFS).

Further evaluation of our current wind units and their effects on fuel consumption and emissions should be done before increasing the penetration of renewable energy to the 20 and 30 percent levels currently mandated by some state renewable portfolio standards, and before a national renewable portfolio standard is considered for enactment.

A new national API poll shows that American voters have serious concerns about the Renewable Fuel Standard and its mandates for ever - increasing levels of ethanol in the nation's fuel supFuel Standard and its mandates for ever - increasing levels of ethanol in the nation's fuel supfuel supply.

The last included the repealing of Renewable Power Mandates (RPMs) in the states, abolishing the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), and ending tax credits to wind and solar.

Back in 2007, states passed renewable portfolio standards at the same time the George W. Bush Administration was patting itself on the back for enacting the renewable fuels standard — aka the ethanol mandate.

A key inflationary factor is the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), commonly known as the ethanol mandate.

API Downstream Group Director Bob Greco told reporters EPA is right to use its waiver authority to set the requirements below the original congressional mandate, calling it an acknowledgment of the «market limitations of the ethanol blend wall» — the amount of ethanol that can be safely blended into the fuel supply as E10 gasoline that's standard across the country.

The study argues that the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), commonly known as the ethanol mandate, is detrimental to both non-ethanol industry corn users and food and fuel consumFuel Standard (RFS), commonly known as the ethanol mandate, is detrimental to both non-ethanol industry corn users and food and fuel consumfuel consumers.

In a major victory over carmakers and their attempts to rebuff state measures aimed to rein in GHG emissions, Vermont won a court ruling last week mandating that auto companies work to develop new technologies to raise their fuel economy standards.

The study used high - resolution satellite images to identify where cropland expanded between 2008 and 2012, the four years following the passage of the Renewable Fuel Standard, which mandates the use of renewable fuels including biofuels.

Continuing to divert more food to fuel, as is now mandated by the U.S. federal government in its Renewable Fuel Standard, will likely only reinforce the disturbing rise in hunfuel, as is now mandated by the U.S. federal government in its Renewable Fuel Standard, will likely only reinforce the disturbing rise in hunFuel Standard, will likely only reinforce the disturbing rise in hunger.

About 10 days after the finding was left unopened by officials at the Office of Management and Budget, Congress passed and President Bush signed a new energy bill mandating an increase in average fuel - economy standards to 35 miles per gallon by 2020.

Support higher congressionally mandated standards and the development of alternative fuels.

The EPA announced yesterday that it would open a 30 day commenting period as it weighs requests from multiple state governors to use provisions in the Clean Air Act to temporarily suspend the corn ethanol mandate under the Renewable Fuel Standard:

Unfortunately, this doesn't stop RFA from cherry - picking data to create «facts» that support ever - increasing use of ethanol despite real data that strongly argues the ethanol mandates under the Renewable Fuel Standard could negatively impact consumers and the broader economy.