Growth Energy, the nation’s biggest biofuels trade association, filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals in a set of cases under the Center for Biological Diversity-versus-EPA. This brief supports the EPA in debunking outdated research about land use and its impact on endangered species. “The problem for them in this case is that they’re trying to pin all of those claimed harms on the Renewable Fuel Standard and it just doesn’t stick,” said Joe Kakesh, general counsel, Growth Energy. “American agriculture is huge and there are so many factors that go into planning, decision timing, crop rotation, crop choice and markets so to isolate the Renewable Fuel Standard as being responsible for all of those actions is just wrong.”
