Diary: EPA’s Lisa Jackson Sings the Biofuel Blues

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Biofuels are going to increase in importance, but it won’t always be easy. Agribusiness has some cellulosic willies.

Lisa Jackson, who heads up the Environmental Protection Agency, was the featured speaker at a session at Cop15 called "The Contribution of Biofuels to Climate Change Mitigation," which was sponsored by Brazil. The U.S. faces challenges, she noted.

The Obama administration is committed to a strong new biofuels program that would push Congress to enact new fuel reduction mandates, she said. Nonetheless, Jackson added that the goals of the biofuels program have been slowed down due to the recession, but ideally will pick back up with the production of cellulosic biofuels.

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