WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a listening to right this moment, Progress Power—the nation’s largest biofuel commerce affiliation—urged the U.S. Environmental Safety Company (EPA) to not retroactively scale back renewable quantity obligations (RVOs) for cellulosic biofuels underneath the Renewable Gas Normal (RFS).
Earlier this month EPA proposed a partial waiver that would scale back the requisite quantity of cellulosic biofuels that wanted to be blended into the nation’s gasoline provide, as stipulated by the RFS, for the 2024 compliance 12 months. In testimony, nonetheless, Progress Power Normal Counsel Joe Kakesh warned that following via on the waiver might set a harmful precedent for future retroactive reductions, and would undermine the rising marketplace for cellulosic biofuels, that are biofuels produced from leftover plant components like stems, leaves and different fibrous materials.
“EPA’s proposal to partially waive 2024 cellulosic quantity necessities is inconsistent with EPA’s current RFS insurance policies and with the RFS itself. Whereas 2024 cellulosic volumes could not but have achieved RVO targets, many biorefiners have however been making headway in cellulosic biofuel manufacturing, and we’ve seen increasingly more of their cellulosic registrations being accredited by the company,” mentioned Kakesh.
“In any case, any waiver of 2024 cellulosic quantity necessities right here mustn’t present precedent for the way forward for the RFS program or suppress RFS program targets, that are to drive manufacturing and innovation of biofuels, together with cellulosic biofuels, and to not passively monitor a biofuels market with out them,” he added.
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