Clean Fuel Standards

Clean Fuel Standards are a successful, time-tested policy adopted by our neighbors to the north and south as a way to reduce gas emissions.

Learn more about the results of clean fuels.

California

Goal: Reduce the carbon intensity of fuels by at least 20% by 2030.

For a penny at the pump, California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard has been responsible for:

• A reduction of 58 million tons of carbon pollution
• $2 billion in health care savings due to cleaner air
• The average household will save $1,200 – $1,500 on fuel annually
• 560,000 million tons of food waste used for renewable fuels
• Thirty-four million tons of polluting landfill gas is now diverted to California and used to create renewable natural gas.
• California no longer imports foreign oil for transportation fuels
• A 74% increase in clean fuels used
• 14 billion gallon reduction in petroleum used
• $2.8 billion invested in clean fuels production

Oregon

Goal: Reduce the carbon intensity of gasoline and diesel by 10% by 2025

A Penny At The Pump Has Benefitted Oregonians

• Over the first four years of the program greenhouse gas pollution dropped by 3.6 million tons.
• $124 million in health care savings
• 6.1 million gallons of methane gas from manure has been captured and convereted into renewable natural gas
• Zero importation of foreign oil for transportation fuels
• 14 million gallons of diesel replaced by light duty vehicles in 2019