South Dakota hearings promote waste-to-ethanol technology, rue restructions on waste wood from public lands

In South Dakota, hearings held by Senator John Thune highlighted opportunities for wood waste-to-ethanol technology, while participants criticized a change made in the US House of Representatives to the Eenergy Securoity and Independence Act of 2007 that prohibited the use of wood residues and waste woods from public lands in the Renewable Fuel Standard that mandates the blending of up to 21 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol by 2022.  “The final version of the definition of renewable bio-mass is not included in material removed or harvested from federal lands and National Forests regardless of how well these lands are managed,” Thune said at the hearings.

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