Low Carbon Fuels Coalition

07/16/2026

Hawaii took a big step toward cleaner air and a stronger economy, as Gov. Josh Green signed legislation to adopt a Clean Fuel Standard yesterday, making HI the fifth such state program in the country!

A key stakeholder in HI's CFS effort, Neste's Cristina Cornejo highlights that "Transportation is the biggest contributor to the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, and a Clean Fuel Standard is a proven and powerful catalyst needed to drive them down.”

We couldn't agree more, because lowering carbon emissions and growing the economy go hand in hand and as Robin Vercruse points out "As proven in other states, this program doesn't bet on a single technology. It challenges every fuel producer to compete to be cleaner, and that competition is exactly what drives innovation and minimizes costs."

For more details on the benefits of SB 2999, which sets a goal of cutting transportation fuel-related emissions by 10 percent by 2035 and 50 percent by 2045, see below:

https://www.lcfcoalition.com/news

To learn about CFS in other states including Massachusetts, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, and New York, contact [email protected].

02/04/2025

What do used cooking oil, dairy manure, landfills and forest residue have in common?

They are all wastes that release heat-trapping air pollution in the form of emissions AND they're also, all sources for producing cleaner transportation fuels!

Learn more about how communities can benefit when they repurpose their local waste by-products into revenue-generating assets, while also improving the air, land and water around them.

With a Clean Fuel Standard, yesterday's waste becomes tomorrow's fuel, turning local resources into economic opportunities. Discover how Clean Fuel Standards...

01/28/2025

that standards, thanks to their all-of-the-above approach, have generated billions in private sector investments to catalyze economic development that revitalizes rural & agricultural communities?

Or, that CFS policy has cut air pollution that causes cancer, heart disease, asthma & other respiratory ailments, lowering the substantial healthcare costs & saving to Americans?

Get the WHOLE story on how we can free our transportation system (& wallets) from the influence of far away dictators that repeatedly hold us over a barrel for their profits.

At this critical moment when momentum is actually turning the tide, we cannot simply cede the field to ideology over science, or to the past instead of our future. And we cannot cling to a message at the expense of the purpose.  Those of us advocating for clean fuel standards have a golden

09/10/2024

that in 2022 alone, vehicles powered by low-carbon fuels:

- Reduced emissions equivalent to nearly 14 million passenger car miles
- Cut the amount of CO2 that consuming 632,947,114 gallons of gasoline would generate
- Sequestered as much CO2 as growing 93,009,875 tree seedlings for ten years

Let's keep a good thing going and build on that success for cleaner air, lower costs to drivers, and real !

03/10/2024

Earlier this week, New Mexico’s established a Clean Transporation Fuel Standard to phase in a statewide requirement to cut the Carbon Intensity (CI) of transportation fuels used within NM, to achieve a 20% reduction below a 2018 baseline level by 2030, ramping up to 30% by 2040.

Any transportation fuel, whether electricity or a liquid, gaseous or blended, including gasoline, diesel, liquefied petroleum gas, natural gas, or hydrogen, sold, supplied, used or offered for sale to power vehicles or equipment for the purposes of transportation, will be subject to the lower reduction levels, leading to cleaner air, climate action, jobs and investments, AND more competition at the pump to deliver lower driving costs!

Congratulations to all who worked on this effort, including local environmental and community groups like Sierra Club: Rio Grande Chapter Western Resource Advocates Conservation Voters New Mexico Southwest Energy Efficiency Project New Mexico Voices for Children, Kit Carson Electric Cooperative and NM Native Vote.

Special thanks to Adelante Consulting Inc. our NM Clean Fuels Coalition co-chair, and the state leaders including Senator Mimi Stewart, Rep Kristina Ortez For New Mexico and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham

https://www.governorsbiofuelscoalition.org/new-mexico-governor-signs-clean-transportation-fuel-standard-bill/

02/14/2024

Tonight, New Mexico’s Senate voted 25-16 in favor of a clean transportation fuels standard—ensuring cleaner skies and a brighter horizon for the Enchantment State as the bill brings jobs, investments and climate action with cleaner, lower cost transportation fuel alternatives!

Thank you to all the local environmental & community nonprofits including Conservation Voters New Mexico, Sierra Club: Rio Grande Chapter, Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, Southwest Energy Efficiency Project, New Mexico Voices for Children& Western Resource Advocates, low carbon businesses, lawmakers Kristina Ortez For New Mexico & Mimi Stewart, state agencies and NM Clean Fuels Coalition members, including our partners Adelante Consulting Inc., who made this win-win-win possible!

Snow ❄️ on the Organ Mountains this weekend!
It will probably be melted by the time Sierra Vista Trail Runs on March 2nd, so grab your camera now and seize the day!

📸: Cheryl Lowe

02/12/2024

We're back in New Mexico to advocate for a clean fuel standard to fight emissions, clean the air and create thousands of jobs in the renewable energy economy.

We thank all the local groups like New Mexico Voices for Children, El Paso Electric, Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, Conservation Voters New Mexico, Sierra Club: Rio Grande Chapter, Western Resource Advocates, Adelante Consulting Inc., Southwest Energy Efficiency Project, NM Native Votes and more who've spoken out in support of HB 41 to help get this bill by Kristina Ortez For New Mexico to the Senate Finance Committee—the last one to hear it before it goes to the Senate Floor for the final vote.

Seeing Representative Eliseo Alcon's OpEd today is a reminder of why it's so critical to get the clean fuel standard passed this year:

As a legislator, I see it as my duty to implement policies that protect the well-being of our rural communities and honestly represent the voices of our citizens in the

12/06/2023

Huge news in NYC📣 All heavy-duty vehicles in the city’s fleet will soon be running on , which emit far less pollution. We will replace 16 million gallons of fossil fuels annually as we move to zero-emission vehicles. We're ready for a Clean Fuel Standard! https://on.nyc.gov/3uFb6mc

06/30/2023

As we head into the 4th of July Weekend, with smokes from fires continuing to pollute our air, it's worth thinking about freedom and independence from the monopoly that oil & gas (petroleum) have had on our transportation fuels for the last 100+ years.

In this NPR interview, LCFC Executive Director Graham Noyes talks about the missing policy puzzle piece required to drive the investment necessary to transition to SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuel), so we can leave carbon-intensive air travel behind.

“We have a long road ahead to decarbonize aviation fuel. Most of the challenge is the cost gap. We have fossil fuels that have been subsidized for many, many years and have a very well-established infrastructure.”

A Clean Fuel Standard program, which is already running successfully in CA, OR and WA, requires that “...a petroleum refiner or importer has to either sell less and less carbon-intensive fuel or buy credits in the marketplace to meet those requirements.”

Those credits, create what is essentially “a new revenue stream” for low-carbon fuel producers, driving investment, supply, AND faster adoption of fuels that can reduce from air travel (as well as from car, truck, bus, and marine transportation).

Ethanol — and a quirky crop — could pave the way for the Peach State.