A spokesman for Representative Brian Bilbray, a Republican, whose district includes San Diego, tells Recharge that the bill will be bipartisan and have co-sponsors from several other Western states.
The bill, HR 3460, will be debated in the House Energy and Commerce committee, whose chairman is Representative Henry Waxman, a Democrat from California whose party controls both houses of Congress.
The 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) mandates that 36 billion gallons of biofuels a year must be blended into traditional fuels by 2022, with 21 billion gallons coming from cellulosic feedstock.
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