The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) is the most successful clean energy tool available to the government, which should make full use of it when setting the biofuel mandate for 2023 and future years, biofuel trade groups said on Thursday. “What we’re really looking to take place with EPA is that they maximize the full potential of the RFS,” said Emily Skor, chief executive of Growth Energy. EPA is due to announce its “set” for the RFS by Nov. 16.
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Emily Skor, chief executive of Growth Energy, and Geoff Cooper, chief executive of the Renewable Fuels Association, told reporters they expect the EPA “set” to expand biofuel volumes from this year’s 15.25 billion gallons of corn ethanol and 5.63 billion gallons of advanced biofuels and to list the biofuel targets for the next two or three years.
“We are producing more and more with less and less,” said Jon Doggett, head of the National Corn Growers Association, so each bushel of corn had a smaller carbon footprint than in the past.
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