Unraveling a shotgun compromise on low-carbon fuels

Plus more tax proposals and an update on student restraint

When the Legislature enacted the state’s low-carbon fuel standard back in 2021, the program was touted as a way to cut the carbon footprint of getting around and jump-start a homegrown biofuels industry. 

To that end, part of the gradually tightening requirement for lower-carbon fuels was conditioned on the development of a major biofuel refinery somewhe…