Today in Biofuels Opinion: “By law, E.P.A. must consider indirect land use change emissions.”

Kate McMahon in the New York Times: “By law, E.P.A. must consider indirect land use change emissions. It is absurd that the biofuel industry, a year after this law was enacted, would turn around and try to strip away this fundamental environmental safeguard.”

Seven academic and biofuel industry figures, in a letter to  E.P.A. administrator Stephen Johnson: “We strongly believe that a requirement to account for indirect land use changes in the legislation was premature, as there are generally no accepted methods for determining indirect land use change, or for that matter, any indirect (market-driven) change, and there is no way to apply even current methods in any meaningful way to the choices a farmer makes.”

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