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The Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued new output goals for the biofuels industry, despite a recent court ruling which threw out the EPA's 2012 mandate. The ruling last week by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said the 2012 mandate for cellulosic biofuels was based on wishful thinking rather than accurate estimates.
The Obama administration wants to encourage the use of biofuels to help lower greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming, as well as lower U.S. dependence on foreign fuel. Despite, the EPA's projections for millions of gallons of biofuels made from switchgrass, corn husks or wood pulp there's been essentially zero production. According to final EPA estimates, no cellulosic fuel was produced in 2010 or 2011. Only about 25,000 gallons was produced last year.
This isn't the first time the Obama administration has ignored a court ruling. After the April, 2010 explosion and oil spill from the British Petroleum oil rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, a third oil-drilling moratorium was established by the Obama administration after the first two were thrown out of court; creating a de facto Gulf Coast offshore drilling ban in opposition to two judges’ rulings.
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