
New Study Finds California’s Indirect Land Use Change Score for Ethanol Is Obsolete
Thursday, November 6, 2025 • 1 PM
As the California Air Resources Board (CARB) prepares to hold a Biofuels and Land Use Change Public Forum tomorrow, a comprehensive new report from Life Cycle Associates, Advances in Estimation of Land Use Change Emissions Associated with Ethanol, shows that CARB’s decade-old estimate of hypothetical indirect land use change (ILUC) associated with ethanol is obsolete and should be revised.

