Minnesota Legislature to Consider Low Carbon Fuel Standard

3 January 2009

StarTribune. The Minnesota state legislature will consider a bill implementing a low carbon fuel standard, similar to the one in California (earlier post), during the coming session.

The bill will target a 10% reduction in the carbon content of passenger car vehicle fuels over 10 years.

The bill’s backers say it would expand government controls beyond those already proposed for the energy sector, the nation’s biggest source of carbon emissions, to the transportation sector, the second leading source of such emissions in Minnesota and in most other states.