BIOMASS HUB

Last week, the National Biodiesel Board (NBB) issued a statement in response to lawsuits filed by the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association (NPRA) regarding the Renewable Fuels Standard (see Big Oil Pushes Back Against RFS2).

Manning Feraci, NBB’s vice president of federal affairs, issued the statement:

Congress signaled its clear intent to include a renewable component in U.S. diesel fuel when it expanded the Renewable Fuels Standard to include specific minimum volume requirements for Advanced Biofuels such as Biomass-based Diesel.  The final RFS2 rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency seeks to ensure the volume requirements envisioned, and mandated each year, by Congress are implemented consistent with an energy policy that values the displacement of petroleum diesel fuel with low-carbon, renewable fuels such as biodiesel.  The NBB will take all appropriate steps going forward to ensure that Advanced Biofuels volume requirements for Biomass-based Diesel are met.

The NBB is the national trade association of the biodiesel industry and is the coordinating body for biodiesel research and development in the U.S.  NBB’s membership is comprised of biodiesel producers and marketers, state, national, and international feedstock and feedstock processor organizations, and technology providers.