GAO: Federal agencies should track progress toward SAF goals
Summary
The U.S. Government Accountability Office on March 27 issued a report that includes recommendations on how three federal agencies can track progress related to the Biden administration’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge. The Biden administration in September 2021 launched an ambitious initiative to that aims to increase the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to at least 3 billion gallons per year by 2030. It also identifies how federal agencies can support SAF and assesses how they will monitor process toward reaching the Grand Challenge goals. Th complete its report, the GAO reviewed data on SAF production and conventional fuel use from 2016 to 2022. Specifically, the GAO recommends that each agency coordinate with the other two agencies to develop and incorporate into the Grand Challenge Roadmap performance measures that enable the agencies to evaluate their actions and the effect of policy of SAF production and communicate the extend to which SAF is poised to contribute to larger aviation greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction goals.