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SUBMITTER: Lark TJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8892349 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lark Tyler J TJ Hendricks Nathan P NP Smith Aaron A Pates Nicholas N Spawn-Lee Seth A SA Bougie Matthew M Booth Eric G EG Kucharik Christopher J CJ Gibbs Holly K HK
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20220301 9
The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) specifies the use of biofuels in the United States and thereby guides nearly half of all global biofuel production, yet outcomes of this keystone climate and environmental regulation remain unclear. Here we combine econometric analyses, land use observations, and biophysical models to estimate the realized effects of the RFS in aggregate and down to the scale of individual agricultural fields across the United States. We find that the RFS increased corn prices b ...[more]