Possible impacts of the US EPA Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the biofuels industry

摘要

This Roundtable Discussion was held for members of the media to engage with industry experts and gain insight into the proposed (and, as this issue of industrial Biotechnology went to press, yet-to-be-finalized) EPA Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would set stringent greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for renewable fuels. At issue is the methodology employed by EPA, one largely based on assessment of emission effects related to indirect land-use changes for biofuels production, to determine the reduction target requirements for existing and new biofuels. (For context, see letter, p. 332, and Point of View article, p. 334).