NBB just launched what it’s calling a “grassroots response” to EPA’s proposed RFS2 rule.

“We are calling on you and all supporters of clean, renewable energy to join us in urging the EPA to implement a workable RFS2 program,” NBB states. “EPA proposed draft regulations that, if adopted, would make it extraordinarily difficult for the [RFS2 program as it relates to biodiesel] to succeed as intended by the law.”

About the proposed rule and Action Center, the organization goes on to say:

“The methodology employed by the EPA to determine biodiesel’s GHG emission profile under the RFS2 program is based on questionable inputs and dubious assumptions about international land use changes that assign future carbon emissions to U.S. biodiesel resulting from hypothetical land clearing on other continents that have nothing to do with U.S. biodiesel production or use…We need as many biodiesel supporters as possible to submit consistent comments to the EPA by July 27, 2009 – the deadline for public comments on the EPA’s proposed RFS2 rule. We have developed two sample comment documents. One is a shorter version that simply includes the top priority comments. The second is a longer version that includes more detail and arguments to support the comments. The longer version is preferred, but we have created the abbreviated version to make it faster and easier for you to complete the process and to ask that others complete it as well. We ask you to submit your comments right away and reach out to your friends, work colleagues, and professional networks to do the same.”

Visit the RFS2 Action Center at http://www.biodiesel.org/news/RFS/.