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EPA Needs to Improve RFS Program
Thu, 05 May 2011 17:28:15 CDT
Testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Bob Dinneen told members of the committee that the Environmental Protection Agency, not Congress, must endeavor to faithfully honor Congress' intent and refrain from legislating through rulemaking and regulation - in implementing the Renewable Fuel Standard.
Specifically, Dinneen noted several problems the ethanol industry and its customers have had with EPA's interpretation of Congressional intent and the implementation of the RFS. They include: overreach in environmental analyses, the persistent waiving of cellulosic biofuel targets, EPA's inexplicable exclusion of certain biofuel feedstocks, confusion over the process to approve new biofuel pathways to qualify under the RFS, and a failure to keep up with advances in lifecycle GHG analysis.
Dinneen says rather than throwing up red-tape roadblocks to biofuels expansion, Congress meant for EISA to serve as the blueprint for a rapid evolution of the U.S. fuel supply toward greater volumes of renewables and less imported oil.
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