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Thursday, June 23, 2011

EPA issues proposed 2012 RFS2 volume requirements

Biodiesel Magazine
By Erin Voegele June 21, 2011

The U.S. EPA has issued proposed 2012 volume requirements for all four categories of the RFS2 program, as well as 2013 volume requirements for biomass-based diesel. According to information released by the agency, the proposed volume requirements for 2012 are:

-1 billion gallons of biomass-based diesel (0.91 percent)
-2 billion gallons of advanced biofuels (1.21 percent)
-3.45-12.9 million gallons of cellulosic biofuels (0.002-0.01 percent)
-15.2 billion gallons of total renewable fuels (9.21 percent).

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