An expert workgroup created by the California Air Resources Board met for the first time Friday. The group is charged with refining and improving the land use and indirect effect analysis of transportation fuels, and will also evaluate key factors, such as agricultural yield improvements, co-products, land emission factors, food price elasticity and more, which "might impact" bioful's land use values.
Mark Stowers, POET's senior vice president of science and technology, says the low carbon fuel standard is an important piece of energy policy, too important to rely on theories or unproven models. The workgroup is set to meet monthly through September, before preparing a draft report in October and submit its recommendations to the board by January 1, 2011.
Critics warn that the science behind ILUC is not yet mature and the state's LCFS is under legal challenge because of the board's application of ILUC.
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