NFU pushing for Congress to drop loophole exempting military from biofuels use

June 20, 2016 |

In Washington, repeated attempts to undermine the national security benefits of advanced biofuels through previous defense spending bills have been unsuccessful. As House lawmakers met last week to debate the Department of Defense Appropriations Act for FY 2017, National Farmers Union (NFU) is hopeful that a provision exempting the U.S. military from biofuels use will not be passed into law.

The appropriations bill, as written, would exempt the military from Section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which prohibits federal agencies from making bulk purchases of synthetic fuels with a larger greenhouse gas footprint than traditional petroleum. The military’s use of biofuels has been a long-standing source of encouragement for new technologies that are held out of transportation fuel markets by the exploitative practices of Big Oil.

Category: Policy

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