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Growth Energy Wants Public Comment Period Reopened
Published Monday, November 23, 2009 at 05:04 AM
Growth Energy has called on the California Air Resources Board to allow the public to comment on all documents pertaining to their low-carbon fuel standard rulemaking that were not disclosed and should influence the final rule. Through a public records request, Growth Energy uncovered numerous previously undisclosed documents and comments from ARB consultants that cast doubt on ARB conclusions and others that appeared to influence ARB’s assumptions. Documents in question come from organization such as: the Renewable Fuels Association and the New Fuels Alliance. Growth Energy CEO Tom Buis says - the public records request confirmed what we suspected that significant portions of the ARB staff’s environmental and economic analyses appeared to be based on assumptions, rather than technical analyses available to the public. Even more disturbing, according to Buis, is the omitted comments from ARB’s consultants that contradict the conclusions reached by ARB staff regarding the carbon intensity of ethanol.

Buis says, - we are only one-third of the way through our public records request and have discovered scores of comments and documents not disclosed to the public that prejudiced the final Low-Carbon Fuel Standard rule.


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