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Statement on EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard

WASHINGTON, DC – On Wednesday, April 1, 2009, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety held a hearing to discuss the Environmental Protection Agency’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).

NAFO submitted an official statement for the record (PDF).

In its testimony, NAFO urges Congress to expand the federal renewable fuel standard for forest biomass. NAFO asks the Committee to recognize biomass from private, working forests as an eligible feedstock on an even playing field with other renewable energy sources as it reviews the federal RFS. Specifically, NAFO asks Congress to adopt the definition in the 2008 Farm Bill for renewable forest biomass in place of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) definition. The EISA definition, which EPA is now developing rules and regulations for, significantly limits contributions to the RFS on approximately ninety percent of non-federal forests.

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