The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), responsible for formulating criteria to encourage biofuels use in the USA, announced the final results of its analysis. It recalculated soy biodiesel emissions, conferring to the biofuel a 57 percent reduction in emissions against mineral diesel.
The analysis will serve as a legal basis for implementing the Renewable Fuel Standard 2 (RFS 2), a program whose goal for 2022 is the consumption of 36 billion gallons of renewable fuels in the USA. With this review, EPA placed soy biodiesel as an appropriate biofuel to meet the American program targets.
During the preparation stage, ABIOVE (Associação Brasileira das Indústrias de Óleos Vegetais – Brazilian Vegetable Oil Industry Association) took active part in the public submissions opened by EPA. In August 2009, the Association raised questions during the meeting in Brasilia, organized by the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, concerning the preliminary version published by EPA. In October, ABIOVE formalized the questions in a report and submitted them to the official entity. The Brazilian Vegetable Oil Industry Association has contributed on a positive and significant way to defend and improve the soy complex and biodiesel image, which will certainly bring positive results in the USA and other international markets.
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