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Platts Cellulosic Ethanol Conference - DOE and USDA discuss bioenergy

Posted on October 15, 2008

Filed under: Biodiesel, Ethanol, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Legislation and Policy, USAclick to enlarge Representatives from the U.S. Department of Energy and the USDA were present at the Platts Cellulosic Ethanol conference in Chicago last week and put the national government's biofuel efforts into perspective. Valri Lightner, of the Biomass Program at the DOE, and William Hagy III, deputy administrator of business programs USDA Rural Development, each spoke for about 20 minutes and Lightner said the DOE's Biomass Program mission statement is to find ways to use biomass to produce fuel, product...

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