Citing obvious violations of the California Administrative Procedures Act, the Renewable Fuels Association has called on California's Office of Administrative Law to reject the California Air Resources Board's Low Carbon Fuels Standard rule currently under review. In a letter to officials, the RFA highlighted numerous instances where ARB violated established procedures by failing to properly address stakeholder comments on the Low Carbon Fuels Standard.
RFA says California's effort to implement its LCFS has been a process wrought with contention over the failures of ARB to address concerns of stakeholders, as well as ARB's reliance on unproven science in the face of evidence contradicting its findings. In particular, the RFA has repeatedly challenged the ARB's highly uncertain modeling predictions that suggest significant greenhouse gas emissions will result from clearing of South American rainforests and other virgin lands in response to increased U.S. ethanol production.
Bob Dinneen, President and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association, says ARB has made such a mockery of this process that OAL has no choice but to reject this rule, and send it back to ARB. Dinneen believes that this process seems to have been slanted from the outset, and ARB's blatant refusal to address issues raised by stakeholders with which they didn't agree is further evidence of this bias.
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