RNG Stakeholders Speak out on EPA’s 2020 Renewable Fuel Proposal
by Betsy Lillian (NGT News) More than two dozen representatives from the renewable natural gas (RNG) industry spoke at Wednesday’s public hearing in Michigan to provide feedback on 2020 biofuel volumes proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program.
“The RNG Coalition is the RNG industry,” said David Cox, co-founder and director of operations for the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas (RNG Coalition), at the hearing. “We have built over 100 facilities that are turning waste into biofuel, and we are currently, today, moving our nation’s packages, our food and our freight.”
Comments from RNG stakeholders impressed the importance of the EPA’s setting a 2020 cellulosic biofuel volume of at least 650 million gallons to incorporate all RNG produced and available next year, including new volumes from more than 30 production sites currently being built and millions of stranded gallons as a result of small refinery exemptions (SREs) granted by the EPA. READ MORE
RNG Industry to EPA: 2020 Cellulosic Volume Must Account for All Available RNG (NGT News)
Renewable Natural Gas Industry Leaders Send Letter to U.S. EPA Urging Importance of 2020 Cellulosic Volume that Accounts for All Available RNG (Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas)
RNG industry asks EPA to increase cellulosic RVO in RFS comments (Biomass Magazine)