EPA tough on ethanol, tougher on biodiesel

Agriculture Online
Dan Looker Successful Farming magazine Editor-in-Chief
5/07/2009, 7:54 AM CDT

Proposed rules released by the Environmental Protection Agency this week have the potential to keep new ethanol plants from selling into a government mandated market. But the biodiesel industry could fare even worse.

Members of the biofuels industry on Wednesday testified before the House Agriculture Committee's subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy and Research. Manning Feraci of the National Biodiesel Board said the effect of the EPA's rule, if unchanged, would be to lock soybean-based biodiesel out of the revised renewable fuels standard. And, because of that, there would not be enough biodiesel available to meet a 2012 mandate under the 2007 energy bill that requires the nation to use 1 billion gallons of biodiesel.

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