National Biodiesel Board leaders are pleased the Environmental Protection Agency increased the biomass based biodiesel levels in both 2017 and 2018. NBB CEO Donnell Rehagen says the agency maintained biomass based diesel volumes at 2.1 billion gallons for 2018 the same level in the initial proposed rule. He says it represents a 100 million gallon increase from 2017.

He says the total advanced biofuels volume requirement for 2017 increased from the 4 billion gallons to 4.28, an increase of 19 percent.

Rehagen says the volume levels announced by the EPA will help give the biodiesel industry more certainty going forward.

The biomass based diesel volumes for 2017 is roughly the same amount of biomass based diesel that was utilized in the U.S. in 2015.