The Policy Landscape for Agricultural Bioenergy - Emily JoinerMichael TomanSuzanne Russo

volumes of the covered renewable fuels into the market (AFDC 2024c, 2024d; CRS 2023; Stock 2015).4 The RFS requires fuel suppliers to provide a minimum The requirements for conventional ethanol stopped volume of total renewable fuels and of several specific increasing in 2015, as the demand for ethanol became categories of renewable fuels. [...] biogas based on the counterfactual of no capture of the Ethanol, biomass-derived diesel (biodiesel), and biogas methane emissions from decomposition of the animal have been the three greatest generators of LCFS credits wastes used to produce the biogas. [...] The California blending a growing quantity of ag biofuels and other Department of Food and Agriculture has provided renewable fuels into US gasoline and diesel supplies, financial assistance for the capital costs of digesters the design of the program leads to several inefficiencies. [...] RFS on the former type of innovation is limited by the Agricultural bioenergy feedstocks differ in their yields coarseness of the bins for qualifying fuels and the and capabilities to increase soil carbon storage, and regulatory specification of the RVOs to be achieved. [...] The design and implementation of the CA LCFS avoided many of the concerns with the RFS.