On June 27, 2025, the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) announced that they have approved the long-awaited amendment to the California Air Resources Board Low Carbon Fuels Standard (CARB LCFS). This amendment, which was effective July 1, was originally going to be implemented in February but was rejected by OAL and revised several times […]
In May, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R.1, or the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”. This budget reconciliation bill included many notable changes to the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), including cancellation of most renewable energy incentives and environmental provisions and changes to the Clean Fuel Production Credit, called 45Z after the section in the IRA. […]
On June 17, 2025, EPA published its proposed rule changes to the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). Public comments are due on August 8, 2025, and with the changes EPA “seeks to get the RFS program back on track by establishing renewable fuel volumes for 2027 by the statutory deadline” which indicates that they plan to […]
On June 10, 2025, the International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC) announced that they had partnered with Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) to create a new feedstock certification scheme that will significantly streamline traceability requirements for low carbon fuels producers selling into the Canadian market under the Clean Fuels Regulation (CFR). The new ISCC […]
Storage tank emissions calculations by nature are fairly easy to generate and similarly fairly easy to take for granted. The calculations often remain untouched as methodologies rarely change absent significant updates to Chapter 7, Section 1 (Organic Liquid Storage Tanks) of the USEPA’s AP-42 guidance. While the USEPA made some changes in the latest version […]
Hurricane season starts June 1. The annual tropical forecast from Colorado State University states the “2025 Atlantic basin hurricane season will have above-normal activity. 2025 CSU Forecast 1991-2020 Average Named Storms 17 14.4 Hurricanes 9 7.2 Current La Niña conditions are likely to transition to ENSO neutral conditions in the next couple of months; […]
Executive Action Summary Table List of all the initial presidential actions. Declaring a National Energy EmergencyBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (“NEA”), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, […]
Act Now to Claim the §45Z Clean Fuel Production Credit on January 1, 2025 Many suppliers of low carbon renewable diesel and biodiesel in the U.S. currently benefit from the “biodiesel mixture excise tax credit,” which is a substantial tax incentive of $1.00 per gallon of pure biodiesel or renewable diesel. In order to qualify […]
The New Mexico Senate approved the state’s Clean Transportation Fuel Standard (CTFS) bill HB 41 on February 13. This followed the state’s House of Representatives approval of the bill on February 3. The bill is now on the desk of Governor Grisham, who has been a vocal supporter of the legislation and is expected to […]
On January 3, legislation to establish a clean transportation fuel standard (CTFS) was reintroduced in to the New Mexico House of Representatives under House Bill 41 (HB 41). This new bill aims to address some of the issues that prevented similar legislation from progressing under Senate Bill 11 in 2021 and House Bill 426 in […]