The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) biofuel program is doing more harm than good by killing endangered species, according to a federal lawsuit against the Biden administration.
The lawsuit (pdf), filed in mid-July at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), challenges the EPA’s fuel-volume requirements for corn ethanol and other biofuels through 2025.
The complaint alleges that EPA failed to fully assess the impacts of the biofuel program on endangered species from land conversion and pesticide and fertilizer use to meet its volume targets.
Earlier in July, the agency set its 2023 required minimum volume for the transportation sector use at around 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol and just over 5.6 billion gallons for advanced biofuels….
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