EPA Draft Report Again Fails To Directly Tie Environmental Harms To RFS

EPA is telling Congress that its renewable fuel standard (RFS) program may have caused some relatively minor expansion of cropland for ethanol production, possibly resulting in environmental damage, but the agency again fails to tie any adverse effects directly to the biofuel program. As in prior reports, a draft version of EPA’s just-released third report to Congress on the environmental effects of the RFS finds it difficult to tie specific expansions of cropland or biofuel production to the RFS, making...