Legislation introduced in the Illinois General Assembly would create a clean fuel standard in the state.
The bill’s primary sponsor, State Senator Dave Koehler, of Peoria, says Senate Bill 1556 would create a credit marketplace for low-emission fuels overseen by the Illinois EPA.
“If you do things that are going to help lower your carbon intensity scores on your farm, or in your transportation, or whatever you do, you can get a credit for that.” He says, “Folks that have to buy the credits are the ones that are polluters, or the fossil fuel industry.”
The senator tells Brownfield the bill has Midwestern farmers in mind…
“We’re trying to engage agriculture as a main component of producing biofuels as a way to decarbonize our atmosphere, to lessen our carbon intensity scores in terms of transportation just across the board,” he says.
