EPA Plans to Expand Biofuel Standard

Date: June 24, 2011

Source: News Room

The US EPA is proposing to increase the "percentage standards" for biofuels next year while also increasing the allowable amount of organic-based biofuel within blended products, such as biodiesel. The agency proposes to mandate the blending of 15.2 billion gallons of renewable fuel into the U.S. fuel supply, while also increasing the proposed mandate for advanced biofuels by 48%, to 2 billion gallons, as part of the agency's Renewable Fuel Standard program (RFS2).

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