February 25, 2014
BY Ron Kotrba
The California Air Resources Board has posted five low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) Method 2 fuel pathway applications to the LCFS public comments website.
Two of the applications come from Methes Energies Canada; one for used cooking oil biodiesel, the other for distillers corn oil biodiesel. Neste Oil also has an application for New Zealand tallow to renewable diesel. The other two pathway applications, from Great Plains Ethanol (dba Poet Biorefining Chancellor) are for corn and sorghum ethanol.
Method 2 fuel pathway applications are posted to the web page for public comments for 10 calendar days prior to final posting on the LCFS Method 2 pathway page.
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The deadline for this comment period is March 2 at 5 p.m.
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