#Capture one 12 update#

Adding carbon capture to ethanol production will only compound these problems. The enormous rise in nitrogen fertilizer to raise corn for ethanol has increased emissions of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas that is 289 times as powerful as CO2. Instead, supplementing gasoline with ethanol would increase climate-damaging greenhouse gas emissions, further pollute the water from Iowa to Louisiana, and divert needed funds away from real climate solutions in California and the Midwest.Įthanol producers say the substance generates less carbon than gasoline, but a study this year found that ethanol is 24% more carbon-intensive than traditional fuel. This includes the development of underground toxic waste disposal sites to store carbon under Midwest lands.Ĭalifornia’s incentives wouldn’t deliver carbon reductions as promised. Here in Iowa, where much of the nation’s corn is raised and corn-based ethanol is produced, we are facing a corporate stampede to build thousands of miles of dangerous pipelines crisscrossing six Midwest states. The policy would incentivize ethanol production through technology that stores carbon underground not just in California, but anywhere in the U.S.

#Capture one 12 update#

As California prepares to update its low carbon fuel standard - a policy aiming to reduce emissions from transportation fuels - Indigenous groups and environmentalists across the Midwest are fighting one of its key provisions.