Pacific States Vow To Revive Controversial LCFS Despite Major Hurdles

Correction Appended The Pacific Coast states' just-unveiled climate “action plan” commits policymakers to implementing and maintaining low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) programs in each jurisdiction, despite the fact that they have so far struggled to do so. Oregon lawmakers, for example, this month declined to extend their current program's authorization -- even though officials have not yet crafted implementing rules, Washington lawmakers have defeated such legislation in the past, and California's current LCFS has been hobbled by...