CARB sticks to limit on virgin vegetable oils, tweaks AAM in latest proposal

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CARB sticks to limit on virgin vegetable oils, tweaks AAM in latest proposal

California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) proposed on Tuesday October 1 that it should include sunflower oil into its earlier proposal to limit credit eligibility on certain virgin crop-based feedstocks used to produce biomass-based diesel (BBD), Fastmarkets has heard.

CARB is also proposing to tweak the data range for triggering the Automatic Acceleration Mechanism (AAM).

The board originally proposed on August 12 to limit soybean and canola oil use as feedstocks in BBD productio...

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