{"id":19929,"date":"2014-04-09T03:15:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T01:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=19929"},"modified":"2014-04-08T15:29:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T13:29:40","slug":"obama-administration-proposal-2014-renewable-fuel-standard-will-increase-greenhouse-gas-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/obama-administration-proposal-2014-renewable-fuel-standard-will-increase-greenhouse-gas-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Administration Proposal for 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard Will Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>If left unchanged, the Obama administration\u2019s proposal to slash use of biofuels in 2014 would increase emissions of greenhouse gases next year, according to a new white paper from the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brent Erickson, Executive Vice President of BIO\u2019s Industrial &amp; Environmental Section and lead author of the special report, said, \u201cThe Obama administration\u2019s proposal for the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard could reverse progress on one of the central goals of the law \u2013 reducing climate-changing emissions from the U.S. transportation sector. Reducing biofuel use in 2014 \u2013 while transportation fuel use is projected to increase \u2013 would undeniably increase carbon emissions. Increased biofuel use is necessary to continue to achieve year-over-year reductions in carbon emissions in the transportation sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurther, if future RFS requirements are set along the lines EPA has proposed for 2014, the United States will see increased carbon emissions for many years to come, equivalent to adding several million additional cars to our roads year upon year. The Obama administration\u2019s proposal runs the risk of destabilizing commercial development of cellulosic and advanced biofuels, limiting their availability as a substitute for foreign oil from unstable nations. These fuels are beginning to come online and they could significantly reduce carbon emissions over the next few years, if we maintain a stable, working RFS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The white paper was published as a special report by Industrial Biotechnology Journal \u2013 part of a series of reports marking the journal\u2019s 10th anniversary \u2013 and is available online.<\/p>\n<p>The paper utilizes Energy Information Administration projections of fuel use from 2014 to 2022 to estimate volumes of petroleum and biofuel use for each year. The authors then assigned estimates of greenhouse gas emissions from the GREET1.2013 model to the volumes and added up year-by-year emissions. Based on EPA\u2019s proposed requirements for 2014, the United States would emit 6.6 million more metric tons of CO<sub>2<\/sub> equivalent greenhouse gases than it did in 2013. If EPA followed past practice, allowing the overall requirements to remain at the statutory level, the achieved reduction in GHG emissions would be 21.6 million metric tons CO<sub>2<\/sub>e. The difference between the increase and the achievable decrease is equivalent to putting 5.9 million additional cars on the road next year. Under other available options for setting the RFS volume requirements, the United States could still achieve carbon emission reductions, the paper finds.<\/p>\n<p>By 2022, the cumulative emissions of greenhouse gases are nearly 1 billion metric tons CO<sub>2<\/sub>e higher than would occur if EPA continued to set the RFS at statutory levels. \u201cThe EPA should carefully consider the impact on CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions in the transportation sector in assessing its proposed change in [RFS] methodology,\u201d the authors conclude.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>About BIO<br \/>\n<\/strong>BIO is the world&#8217;s largest trade association representing biotechnology companies, academic institutions, state biotechnology centers and related organizations across the United States and in more than 30 other nations. BIO members are involved in the research and development of innovative healthcare, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology products. BIO also produces the BIO International Convention, the world\u2019s largest gathering of the biotechnology industry, along with industry-leading investor and partnering meetings held around the world. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biotech-now.org\/?utm_source=bio&amp;utm_medium=press_release&amp;utm_campaign=boilerplate\" target=\"_blank\">BIOtechNOW<\/a> is BIO&#8217;s blog chronicling \u201cinnovations transforming our world\u201d and the BIO Newsletter is the organization\u2019s bi-weekly email newsletter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(see also <a href=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=19926\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=19926 <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=19927\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=19927<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If left unchanged, the Obama administration\u2019s proposal to slash use of biofuels in 2014 would increase emissions of greenhouse gases next year, according to a new white paper from the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). Brent Erickson, Executive Vice President of BIO\u2019s Industrial &amp; Environmental Section and lead author of the special report, said, \u201cThe Obama [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[2194],"class_list":["post-19929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-biotechnology-innovation-organization-bio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19929"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=19929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}