In front of the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, the biofuels industry stressed the importance of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) to a clean energy policy.
“Let me be clear: there is no path to net-zero emissions by 2050 without biofuels,” said Emily Skor, CEO of U.S. biofuel industry trade group Growth Energy. The hearing reviewed the RFS as the Biden administration considers reforms and pushes for electric vehicles. EPA, which oversees the law, might announce changes as soon as May.
“Like many of our colleagues on this committee, I still support the goals of the Renewable Fuel Standard,” said Tom Carp (D-Del.), chair of the committee, said in his prepared opening statement. He said the law needs to be improved but warned the push to electric cars will still take a while. “In closing, as one of the strongest supporters of electric vehicles in the Senate, I know it’s important to remember that we aren’t yet in a post-liquid fuel world,” he said.
Taxpayers for Common Sense called the RFS a failed policy and a boondoggle for the corn industry in a letter to the committee.
