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United States announces 'National Biofuels Action Plan'

Posted on October 07, 2008

Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Ed Schafer and Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Samuel W. Bodman today released the National Biofuels Action Plan (NBAP), an interagency plan detailing the collaborative efforts of Federal agencies to accelerate the development of a sustainable biofuels industry.The NBAP was developed in response to President Bush's plans to change the way America fuels its transportation fleets in the 2007 State of the Union Address. The Twenty In Ten goal calls for cutting U.S. gasoline consumption by 20 percent over the next 10 years by investing in renewable...

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