The Low Carbon Fuel Standad (LCFS), one of the most consequential regulations serving California’s climate targets, is intended as a tool to combat climate pollution in transportation, but fails to follow the requirements and principles of California’s climate laws.
In 2024, CBE submitted public comments in opposition to changes proposed to LCFS that would lock in decades of subsidies for polluting fuels without the required analysis and mitigation of their wide-ranging environmental harms. Despite widespread opposition, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved amendments to the LCFS program that will provide billions to prop up polluting combustion fuels like biofuels and biogas.
People who live near refineries in California are harmed by the spiraling expansion of polluting biofuels. CARB failed to analyze the harms that its changes to the LCFS will have on these communities. CARB also failed to take a hard look at clean alternatives to biofuels, which we know the climate and our lungs need. Refinery communities and all Californians deserve more from California’s climate policies.
In December 2024, CBE filed a lawsuit over the flawed environmental review in the process of approving the amendments to the LCFS.
