BP urges California Air Resources Board to support killing of Brazilian ethanol tariff

In California, BP has urged the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to support the elimination of the tariff on Brazilian sugarcane ethanol. Oil & Gas Journal is reporting that the letters says that BP believes that “sugarcane-based ethanol will be the lowest-carbon biofuel available in the first years of the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard.” BP holds a 50 percent stake in the Tropical Bioenergia sugarcane ethanol plant in Brazil’s Goias state.

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