Senate Energy Committee Passes Renewable Fuels Legislation

The Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee today approved energy legislation that calls for 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel use by 2022 by a vote of 20-3. 

RFA President Bob Dinneen praised the committee for its common sense approach, stating:

“This bill is to cellulosic ethanol what the 2005 energy bill was to grain ethanol.  Combining all the sound provisions of previous renewable energy proposals, this legislation will provide the kind of incentive and opportunity for wide scale investment in the development of ethanol production from materials in addition to grain.  Whether it’s the fiber in the kernel of corn, the corn stalks left on the field, switchgrass, wood chips or any other agricultural biproducts, we will need ethanol production from all these sources to achieve a more secure and stable energy and environmental future.”