Low Carbon Fuels Coalition

02/04/2025

What do used cooking oil, dairy manure, landfills and forest residue have in common?

They are all wastes that release heat-trapping air pollution in the form of emissions AND they're also, all sources for producing cleaner transportation fuels!

Learn more about how communities can benefit when they repurpose their local waste by-products into revenue-generating assets, while also improving the air, land and water around them.

With a Clean Fuel Standard, yesterday's waste becomes tomorrow's fuel, turning local resources into economic opportunities. Discover how Clean Fuel Standards...

01/28/2025

that standards, thanks to their all-of-the-above approach, have generated billions in private sector investments to catalyze economic development that revitalizes rural & agricultural communities?

Or, that CFS policy has cut air pollution that causes cancer, heart disease, asthma & other respiratory ailments, lowering the substantial healthcare costs & saving to Americans?

Get the WHOLE story on how we can free our transportation system (& wallets) from the influence of far away dictators that repeatedly hold us over a barrel for their profits.

At this critical moment when momentum is actually turning the tide, we cannot simply cede the field to ideology over science, or to the past instead of our future. And we cannot cling to a message at the expense of the purpose.  Those of us advocating for clean fuel standards have a golden

09/10/2024

that in 2022 alone, vehicles powered by low-carbon fuels:

- Reduced emissions equivalent to nearly 14 million passenger car miles
- Cut the amount of CO2 that consuming 632,947,114 gallons of gasoline would generate
- Sequestered as much CO2 as growing 93,009,875 tree seedlings for ten years

Let's keep a good thing going and build on that success for cleaner air, lower costs to drivers, and real !

03/10/2024

Earlier this week, New Mexico’s established a Clean Transporation Fuel Standard to phase in a statewide requirement to cut the Carbon Intensity (CI) of transportation fuels used within NM, to achieve a 20% reduction below a 2018 baseline level by 2030, ramping up to 30% by 2040.

Any transportation fuel, whether electricity or a liquid, gaseous or blended, including gasoline, diesel, liquefied petroleum gas, natural gas, or hydrogen, sold, supplied, used or offered for sale to power vehicles or equipment for the purposes of transportation, will be subject to the lower reduction levels, leading to cleaner air, climate action, jobs and investments, AND more competition at the pump to deliver lower driving costs!

Congratulations to all who worked on this effort, including local environmental and community groups like Sierra Club: Rio Grande Chapter Western Resource Advocates Conservation Voters New Mexico Southwest Energy Efficiency Project New Mexico Voices for Children, Kit Carson Electric Cooperative and NM Native Vote.

Special thanks to Adelante Consulting Inc. our NM Clean Fuels Coalition co-chair, and the state leaders including Senator Mimi Stewart, Rep Kristina Ortez For New Mexico and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham

https://www.governorsbiofuelscoalition.org/new-mexico-governor-signs-clean-transportation-fuel-standard-bill/

02/14/2024

Tonight, New Mexico’s Senate voted 25-16 in favor of a clean transportation fuels standard—ensuring cleaner skies and a brighter horizon for the Enchantment State as the bill brings jobs, investments and climate action with cleaner, lower cost transportation fuel alternatives!

Thank you to all the local environmental & community nonprofits including Conservation Voters New Mexico, Sierra Club: Rio Grande Chapter, Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, Southwest Energy Efficiency Project, New Mexico Voices for Children& Western Resource Advocates, low carbon businesses, lawmakers Kristina Ortez For New Mexico & Mimi Stewart, state agencies and NM Clean Fuels Coalition members, including our partners Adelante Consulting Inc., who made this win-win-win possible!

Snow ❄️ on the Organ Mountains this weekend!
It will probably be melted by the time Sierra Vista Trail Runs on March 2nd, so grab your camera now and seize the day!

📸: Cheryl Lowe

02/12/2024

We're back in New Mexico to advocate for a clean fuel standard to fight emissions, clean the air and create thousands of jobs in the renewable energy economy.

We thank all the local groups like New Mexico Voices for Children, El Paso Electric, Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, Conservation Voters New Mexico, Sierra Club: Rio Grande Chapter, Western Resource Advocates, Adelante Consulting Inc., Southwest Energy Efficiency Project, NM Native Votes and more who've spoken out in support of HB 41 to help get this bill by Kristina Ortez For New Mexico to the Senate Finance Committee—the last one to hear it before it goes to the Senate Floor for the final vote.

Seeing Representative Eliseo Alcon's OpEd today is a reminder of why it's so critical to get the clean fuel standard passed this year:

As a legislator, I see it as my duty to implement policies that protect the well-being of our rural communities and honestly represent the voices of our citizens in the

12/06/2023

Huge news in NYC📣 All heavy-duty vehicles in the city’s fleet will soon be running on , which emit far less pollution. We will replace 16 million gallons of fossil fuels annually as we move to zero-emission vehicles. We're ready for a Clean Fuel Standard! https://on.nyc.gov/3uFb6mc

06/30/2023

As we head into the 4th of July Weekend, with smokes from fires continuing to pollute our air, it's worth thinking about freedom and independence from the monopoly that oil & gas (petroleum) have had on our transportation fuels for the last 100+ years.

In this NPR interview, LCFC Executive Director Graham Noyes talks about the missing policy puzzle piece required to drive the investment necessary to transition to SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuel), so we can leave carbon-intensive air travel behind.

“We have a long road ahead to decarbonize aviation fuel. Most of the challenge is the cost gap. We have fossil fuels that have been subsidized for many, many years and have a very well-established infrastructure.”

A Clean Fuel Standard program, which is already running successfully in CA, OR and WA, requires that “...a petroleum refiner or importer has to either sell less and less carbon-intensive fuel or buy credits in the marketplace to meet those requirements.”

Those credits, create what is essentially “a new revenue stream” for low-carbon fuel producers, driving investment, supply, AND faster adoption of fuels that can reduce from air travel (as well as from car, truck, bus, and marine transportation).

Ethanol — and a quirky crop — could pave the way for the Peach State.

03/13/2023

New Mexico's House Bill 426, would require the state's transportation fuels become 20% less carbon intensive by 2030 and 30% by 2040.

NM has already taken some bold & far-reaching steps to diversify from fossil fuels into renewable energy sources.

While a full transition won’t happen overnight, New Mexicans can join drivers in places like California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia to begin using cleaner — and often cheaper — transportation fuels now!

Join New Mexico Voices for Children, New Mexico Alliance of Health Councils, League of Women Voters of New Mexico, Coalition of Communities for Sustainable Development New Mexico, Conservation Voters New Mexico, and Sierra Club: Rio Grande Chapter and the other members of the NM Clean Fuels Coalition to urge passage for cleaner air, lower emissions and jobs and investments, along with cleaner, lower-priced fuel options for drivers -- as noted by Consumer Reports Advocacy.

The New Mexico Legislature is considering a clean transportation fuels standard, which, if enacted, could result in significant benefits for the state. The Clean Transportation Fuels Standard will reduce air

03/06/2023

Some for a Monday: New Mexico's Clean Transportation Fuels Standard (HB 426), which will reduce the carbon intensity of fuels by 20% relative to 2018 levels by 2030 and 30% by 2040, passed by a 5 - 3 vote from its second House Committee hearing.

HB 426 will task the New Mexico Environment Department's Environmental Improvement Board with drafting / enforcing clean fuel standards, by creating a technology-neutral, market-based policy to allow ALL fuels to compete on a level playing field.

This gives consumers a win-win-win by having the freedom to choose from cleaner, lower-carbon, and often cheaper fuels, while cutting and toxic pollutants, AND attracting jobs and investments to the state.

Special thanks to feedback in 2022 from non-profit environmental groups incl: New Mexico Voices for Children, New Mexico Alliance of Health Councils, League of Women Voters of New Mexico, Coalition of Communities for Sustainable Development New Mexico, Conservation Voters New Mexico, Sierra Club: Rio Grande Chapter, and many others, for requiring utilities that generate profits from low carbon transportation fuels credit generation re-invest in building infrastructure in disproportionately-impacted communities, including Indian nations, tribes and pueblos, while also decreasing air pollution around transportation corridors.

Next up: New Mexico's House Floor will vote, before it can move to the Senate.

Thanks to the many NM Coalition members who have testified at these Committee Hearings, including Adelante Consulting Inc., Darling Ingredients Inc., and the latest the advocates joining us to work to expand clean fuel standards: Consumer Reports Advocacy.

Watch this space for the NM House Floor vote or learn more at nmcleanfuels.com

https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2023/03/04/clean-fuel-standards-heads-to-house-floor/

A bill that aims to reduce emissions related to transportation fuels is headed to the House floor following a 5-3 vote in the House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee on Saturday. D…

02/28/2023

ACTION ALERT: The Clean Transportation Fuels Standard passed its first committee! Next step: the House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs Committee on Sat, morning, 3/4 (the vote got rolled from Friday).

Share your support for HB 426 with the sponsors and committee members today. Thanks to Rep. Kristina Ortez For New Mexico, Sen. Mimi Stewart, Rep. Christine Chandler and Senator Katy Duhigg, NM has hope for cleaner air, cheaper fuels, and climate action!

https://www.nmlegis.gov/Committee/Standing_Committee?CommitteeCode=HGEIC