Moving Stepwise Toward State Clean Fuel Standards

BY: SUSANNE RETKA SCHILL
07/18/22 6:45 EDT

ETHANOL PRODUCER | Movement towards state clean fuel standards in the Midwest inspired by a broader regional vision continues, albeit slowly. The Minnesota state legislature has held hearings on the Future Fuels Act in two sessions now.

Minnesota’s Future Fuels Act emerged from the Midwest Clean Fuels Policy Initiative’s white paper published two years ago outlining a policy framework. GPI and ACE convened a stakeholder group that spent nearly two years building consensus around the policies all could support.

While Minnesota was the first, it isn’t the only Midwestern state to consider a clean fuels policy. Nebraska is furthest along in considering how such a policy might look. Ohio is another state in a pretty early stage of considering a clean fuels policy, Jordan says.

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