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Johnson proposes EPA use modern greenhouse gas model
A Congressman says his Adopt GREET Act would force the EPA to use the Department of Energy’s more modern and complete method of evaluating greenhouse gas emissions in biofuels.
South Dakota Republican Dusty Johnson authored the bill. “It was just a couple of years ago, we were talking about ethanol being 20% less carbon-intensive than gasoline. Well, now we know the number is 46%. It’s not that the math has changed, it’s that we are that much better at growing corn. Those kinds of impacts ripple through these models.”
John Weber is a policy analyst for Representative Johnson and says the package of bills including the Adopt GREET Act will allow more choice at the pump. “One thing that, you know, we’ve known for some time is when consumers have a choice at the pump, they want to be able to choose ethanol, the higher-blended ethanol. I think that’s always been a huge barrier.”
Johnson says changing to the Department of Energy’s GREET model can also help put American ethanol on a level playing field with some imports. “So when we update these models to do a better job of capturing the incredible value of biofuels, that’s going to make it easier for California to say yes to great American-based corn ethanol rather than some we’re getting from South America.”
Johnson says the Biden administration’s push for all-electric vehicles will not make the internal combustion engine go away any time soon, so making more biofuels available will help them burn cleaner.
The GREET model is the Argonne National Laboratory’s Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy Use in Transportation model for calculating the environmental impact of fuels.
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