Biofuelwatch has published a new briefing report titled ‘Lost in the Woods: Mendocino Redwood Company Quietly Abandons Investment Plans for Biomass to Hydrogen Project.’ The report describes a proposed biomass to hydrogen project that was to be sited, built and...
Leave the market economists to fight among themselves over the right price of carbon — let them relive their Groundhog Day if they wish. The world is moving on and we need to have the audacity to think differently and conceive of alternative futures. --Kevin Anderson...
Plug pulled on timber sector proposal to site and construct the largest industrial forest product facilities built in California in decades to manufacture wood pellets for export to foreign markets. Community opposition and international reprobation likely chills...
The saga of the repurposing of two of the refineries in the San Francisco Bay Area to manufacturing liquid biofuels from high deforestation risk commodities like soy took another anti-democratic twist this week. Local authorities sped through a hearing on January 16,...
Despite a series of dramatic red flag warnings about public safety and climate impacts, compounded by errors in governance, California authorities continue to push hard for completing the conversion of refineries in the San Francisco Bay Area to operate as the largest...
The short text below was submitted as a commentary op/ed style piece to both CalMatters and the Sacramento Bee, two of the foremost media outlets covering political and environmental issues in the California state capitol, and across the state. Both platforms declined...
The California State Senate has advanced a bill, SB 308 - The Carbon Dioxide Removal Market Development Act - that would require large stationary polluters like refineries to purchase ‘negative emissions credits’ from California Air Resources Board certified ‘carbon...
California’s Forests Targeted As Feedstock for Global Wood Bioenergy Industry - Civil Society Responds With United Force to Oppose Massive Wood Pellet Export Project The opening of the environmental review of the Golden State Natural Resources wood pellet manufacture...
In late September, just days prior to the end of the month and the subsequent closure of the 30-day period for the governor to sign state legislation passed during the recently ended session, California Governor Gavin Newsom surprised refinery watchdog and community...
In late July 2022 the administration of California Governor Gavin Newsom sent a letter to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) that included a list of priorities of what the Governor wants to see elevated in the development of the 2022 Scoping Plan. In California...
The California Legislature’s Senate Standing Committee on Environmental Quality has advanced a bill that aggressively promotes the creation of an incentives plan to massively increase the quantities of so-called “Sustainable Aviation Fuel” (SAF) produced and consumed...
Biofuelwatch submission to the Californian Senate Environmental Quality Committee opposing a Sustainable Aviation Fuels bill: Our organization Biofuelwatch offers this position letter to the Senate Environmental Quality Committee for your consideration. Biofuelwatch...
Though the environmental reviews of each refinery fail to even mention the existence of the other biofuel refinery project, the appeals of the approval of the flawed permitting of two massive and high emissions liquid biofuel refineries are set for the exact same day....
New Report from Biofuelwatch Exposes Sordid Workings of California Climate Politics While California state authorities continue to promote markets-based and technological approaches to advance ‘net zero’ as a primary focus for climate policy, grassroots organizations...
Thousands of pages of draft environmental review documents for two massive proposed California refinery conversions to biofuels were released earlier this month, setting the clock ticking for public engagement on the permitting of these unprecedented bioenergy...
By Gary Graham Hughes, California Policy Monitor, Biofuelwatch On Friday, Sept 10, the California legislative session drew to a close for the year with the typical flurry of political theater, last minute negotiations and behind closed doors horse trading. Of...