Renewable Fuel Standard Improvement Act Introduced

Farm Futures
(5/15/2009) Farm Futures Staff

Bipartisan legislation to protect domestic biofuel industry corrects unfair government restrictions.

Thursday House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., and Ranking Member Frank Lucas, R-Okla., along with a bipartisan group of 42 members of Congress introduced a bill to correct flawed provisions in the Renewable Fuel Standard, which limit the potential for clean, homegrown renewable biofuels to meet the nation's energy needs.

"The unreasonable restrictions placed on the biofuels industry in the 2007 Energy Bill were never debated by Congress, and I've spent the past two years trying to undo the damage that we're seeing now that EPA has published the proposed regulations that will make it impossible to meet the RFS," Peterson said. "In order to ensure that a clean, homegrown biofuels industry will succeed in the United States, we need to have Federal energy policies are flexible, practical, and innovative."

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