In a letter<\/a> to EPA Administrator Michael Regan in response to a request for comments on a proposed RFS rule, the Business Aviation Coalition for Sustainable Aviation Fuel called on the agency to expand the list of eligible feedstocks, which would make new sources available for biofuels and SAF; approve new process technologies and biointermediate opportunities; and ensure that the volumes for advanced biofuels are set at levels that will allow greater supplies of those fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cWe hope EPA and this Administration recognize the\nopportunity for SAF moving forward as part of the RFS program. The growth in\nSAF will not happen if EPA does not responsibly improve the regulatory\nstructure of the RFS \u2014 by finalizing biointermediates, by updating the\nopportunities for both feedstocks and technologies, and by increasing the RVO\nvolumes accordingly,\u201d the coalition wrote in its comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
EPA should ensure that municipal solid waste and woody\nbiomass are included in the definition of biointermediates, according to the\ncoalition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the volumes, the coalition asked EPA to ensure that\ncellulosic, non-cellulosic advanced and biomass-based diesel are set at levels\nthat will increase the volumes of each of these fuels to help support the SAF\nmarket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Congress created the RFS program in the Energy Policy Act of\n2005 and later expanded it in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007\nto reduce the nation\u2019s reliance on imported oil and greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe RFS has been driving growth from biofuels and\naccomplishing what creators of the program aimed for \u2014 deployment of domestic,\nultra-clean renewable fuel,\u201d the coalition said. \u201cFor this success to continue,\ncertainty must be provided to the market. Congress sought to provide this\ncertainty through the RFS program and EPA should provide that certainty through\nthe regulatory process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to working with EPA, the coalition is\ncollaborating with the White House, U.S Department of Transportation (DOT),\nU.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on\nthe \u201cSAF Grand Challenge.\u201d The coalition will continue its efforts to educate\nkey government, industry, and community stakeholders on the value of SAF in\nachieving shared environmental goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), Helicopter Association International (HAI), National Air Transportation Association (NATA), and National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), on behalf of the Business Aviation Coalition for Sustainable Aviation Fuel, urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide greater opportunities for the development of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) as it updates the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district-of-columbia","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20865,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20864\/revisions\/20865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}