CARB Signals Support For Long-Term LCFS Dairy Methane Credit Despite Outcry

October 2, 2023
California air board members are signaling support for staff’s plan to continue providing substantial low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS) credit for biomethane produced by manure methane digesters at dairies until 2040, despite strong opposition by environmental and equity groups that are calling for direct rules for “factory farms” as required by a recent state law. “And so as we think about the timeline that was worked [out] around 2040, and obviously there are folks who want a much shorter timeline --...


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