California's low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS) will remain in effect, the California Court of Appeal in Fresno provisionally ruled in a lawsuit filed by US ethanol major POET LLC. Poet said the LCFS should be thrown out because its environmental effects were not adequately studied. POET had already lost a trial court challenge to the California Air Resources Board's LCFS requirement that companies selling transportation fuel in the state reduce their product's carbon intensity by 10% in the next seven years. The rules classify out-of-state corn-based fuel ethanol as more polluting than the volumes produced in the state.
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