WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Agriculture Committee held a hearing to review proposals to implement low carbon fuel standards and efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on state and federal levels.

 The Agriculture Committee heard testimony from representatives of four renewable fuel companies and organizations who expressed serious concerns about provisions in proposed low carbon fuel standards that put U.S. biofuel producers at a disadvantage.

“I continue to be very concerned that some of the renewable fuel provisions under consideration on a state and national level are short on science and long on obstructive and excessive restrictions for domestically produced biofuels,” Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson said. “The United States needs to have energy policies that are flexible, practical, and innovative.”

Written testimony provided by the witnesses is available on the Committee website: http://agriculture.house.gov/hearings/index.html. A full transcript of the hearing will be posted on the Committee website at a later date.

Panel I

·        Mr. Brian Jennings, Executive Vice President, American Coalition for Ethanol, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

·        Mr. Tom Buis, Chief Executive Officer, Growth Energy, Washington, D.C.

·        Mr. Bob Dinneen, President and CEO, Renewable Fuels Association, Washington, D.C.

·        Mr. Carlos A. Riva, President and CEO, Verenium Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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