Obama Announces Steps to Boost Biofuels, Clean Coal as part of the administration’s comprehensive strategy to enhance American energy independence while building a foundation for a new clean energy economy, and its promise of new industries and mil- lions of jobs. At a meeting with a bipartisan group of governors from around the country, the President laid out three measures that will work in concert to boost biofuels production and reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil. The EPA has finalized a rule to implement the long- term renewable fuels standard of 36 billion gallons by 2022 established by Congress. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed a rule on the Biomass Crop Assistance Program that would provide financ- ing to increase the conversion of biomass to bioener- gy. The President’s Biofuels Interagency Working Group released its first report – Growing America’s Fuel. The report, authored by group co-chairs, Secretaries Vilsack and Chu, and Administrator Jackson, lays out a strategy to advance the develop- ment and commercialization of a sustainable biofuels industry to meet or exceed the nation’s biofuels tar- gets. In addition, President Obama announced a Presidential Memorandum (linked below) creating an Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage to develop a comprehensive and coordinated federal strategy to speed the development and deploy- ment of clean coal technologies. Our nation’s econo- my will continue to rely on the availability and affordability of domestic coal for decades to meet its energy needs, and these advances are necessary to reduce pollution in the meantime. The President calls for five to ten commercial demonstration projects to be up and running by 2016.
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