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I write to express my concerns about California's Low Carbon Fuel
Standard (LCFS) credit system and its impact on Iowa.  I don't
think large scale confined animal operations should be able to
claim LCFS credits when they build digesters that trap methane gas
from the massive amounts of manure that they produce.  Why are
polluters being paid to solve the problem they caused in the first
place?

I do not want dirty money or dirty energy in our state. Iowa fails
to regulate factory farms and, actually, our State passed a law
last year that will allow Iowa factory farms to expand their herd
sizes when they build a methane digester.

I think California's proposal would only increase factory farm
expansion in Iowa, create even more pollution, and do nothing to
address the climate crisis.

Private, companies from outside Iowa should not be allowed to
profit off greenwashing schemes that will worsen Iowa's water
crisis and further incentivize factory farm expansion.  Why make
the factory farm industry even more profitable and fuel the fossil
fuel industry with false promises of "greener" greenhouse gasses? 


The dairy industry is trying to sell methane digesters as a climate
solution, but all digesters really do is trap gas to sell to
California and leave manure for Iowa to deal with. 
Agribusiness corporations want to sell methane as a product and
claim Low Carbon Fuel Credits (LCFS), a monetary credit that is
awarded by the amount of carbon "sequestered" (taken out of the
atmosphere), from California. They are not solving the problem
they've created; they're making it worse--and profiting off it!
Please do not implement the proposed Low Carbon Fuel Standard
credit system.

Thank you!