California bioenergy bill killed

Biomass Magazine
September 2010
By Anna Austin
Posted September 22, 2010, at 3:30 p.m. CST

A bill (AB 222) that would have expedited the introduction of new conversion technologies to produce green power and advanced biofuels from solid waste materials in California is officially dead, due to lack of key support needed from five democrats on the Senate Environmental Quality Committee.

Bioenergy Producers Association Chairman Jim Stewart said the dismissal of AB 222 was a major blow to a key element in California’s Bioenergy Action Plan, which the bill was consistent with. “The five democrats on the Senate Environmental Quality Committee ignored and literally swept aside more than 100 statewide endorsements of AB 222, including those of the California Energy Commission, the Air Resources Board and CalRecycle, the former Integrated Waste Management Board,” Stewart said.

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