| Comment | Biofuels produced from virgin soy or canola oil have major negative
consequences, including deforestation, and incentivizing industrial
agriculture that generates large amounts of greenhouse gas and
other pollution, and drives up food prices. The proposed revision
acknowledges such problems, but continues to provide credits for
the production of biofuels that include up to 20 percent from these
destructive sources. And even this weak restraint will not take
effect until 2028. Environmental justice advocates have repeatedly
called instead for caps on vegetable-oil based biofuels.
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