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Senator Ernst questions EPA nominee
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Iowa Senator Joni Ernst questioned the man nominated to lead the Environmental Protection Agency in a Senate hearing.
Ernst asked nominee Michael Regan about issues surrounding renewable fuels including the Renewable Fuel Standard. “RFS is definitely a priority for this administration… the reality is that I want to sit down with my staff, sit down with legal counsel. There are a number of things that are caught up in litigation, there are a number things that we more transparency around how we arrived at those decisions,”Regan says.
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SMITH SETS EXPECTATIONS: Democrats should look to pass a clean electricity standard as part of a forthcoming infrastructure bill and consider using reconciliation to ease passage through a simple majority if Republicans won’t play ball.
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Tina Smith, a Democrat from Minnesota, laid out this expectation at an event with the liberal climate groups Evergreen Action and Data for Progress today, in which she endorsed pursuing a clean electricity standard as a mechanism to achieve
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Feb 3, 2021 2:27 PM
Biofuel groups last week filed a court brief challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to properly establish 2020 biofuel blending targets under the Renewable Fuel Standard. In their brief, the parties seek to ensure that the annual biofuel targets, or Renewable Volume Obligations, account for small refinery exemptions the agency issued for past years. EPA’s current regulations factor in only future SREs, while ignoring biofuel demand destroyed by past SREs granted retroactively, totaling more than four billion gallons in recent years. Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor stated, “The Trump EPA’s 2020 biofuel targets failed to account for the billions of gallons of demand lost to the agency’s mismanagement of the Renewable Fuel Standard.” Growth Energy and others also challenge EPA’s abuse of its waiver authority for cellulosic biofuel targets. Under the 2020 RVOs, the agency set cellulosic targets that did not acc
Photo of electric bus provided by LTUSD
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. -The Lake Tahoe Unified School District (LTUSD) was recently awarded $330,000 from the California Energy Commission to replace one of its aging diesel school buses with an electric bus. The new bus arrived in December and has been transporting students daily since then.
The Commission s School Bus Replacement Program offers funds to replace old diesel school buses in disadvantaged and low-income communities throughout California. This program helps schools embrace next-generation zero-emission vehicles and improve children’s health by reducing their exposure to transportation-related air pollution.
“We are thrilled to see further progress made toward the District’s net zero energy goals,” said LTUSD Superintendent Todd Cutler.