Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thursday, April 28, 2011

The Golden Landfill State: California Democrats continue to block use of waste for biofuels

Biofuels Digest

Jim Lane April 26, 2011




In California, Jim Stewart, Chairman of the Board, BioEnergy Producers Association reports: “Democrats on California’s environmental committees, for more than six years, have blocked corrective legislation that would enable the state to make constructive use of its organic wastes as a feedstock for the sustainable production of advanced non-food derived biofuels and electricity.




During this time, the state has placed in landfills approximately 200 million tons of post-recycled solid waste, materials that theoretically contained enough recyclable carbon to have produced 1.6 billion gallons of ethanol and 1250 MW of green power each year.



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