Letters, Testimony & Comments

April 22, 2013 Air and Radiation Docket Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0120 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Mailcode: 6102T 1200...
April 23 2013
April 5, 2013 Air and Radiation Docket and Information Center Environmental Protection Agency Mailcode: 2822T 1200 Pennsylvania...
April 23 2013
April 5, 2013 The Honorable Fred Upton    Chairman           ...
April 23 2013
  Testimony of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) Hearing of the House Science, Technology & Energy Committee...
March 20 2013
  Testimony of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) Hearing of the Joint Committee on Environment and Natural...
March 20 2013
  Testimony of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) Hearing of the House Energy & Utilities Subcommittee...
February 19 2013
October 18, 2012 Dear Majority Leader Reid and Speaker Boehner and Minority Leaders McConnell and Pelosi, The drought impacting...
October 18 2012
A keynote Address by James C. Greenwood, President & CEO of BIO, to RETECH 2012 in Washington, DC on October 18, 2012. When Admiral...
October 18 2012
Dear Mr. President, The drought impacting the United States has already caused millions of dollars in economic damages to rural America...
August 27 2012
Testimony of the Honorable James C. Greenwood President and CEO, Biotechnology Industry Organization Subcommittee on Conservation,...
May 21 2012
September 30, 2011 Det 1 AFRL/PKMD ATTN: Laura J. Ortiz 2310 Eighth Street, Bldg 167 Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433-7801 Via...
May 21 2012
The Honorable Lisa P. Jackson Administrator Environmental Protection Agency Ariel Rios Building 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W....
February 16 2012
Dear Chairman Frelinghuysen and Ranking Member Visclosky: On behalf of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), I am writing to...
May 17 2011
Dear Chairman Upton, Chairman Boxer, Ranking Member Waxman, and Ranking Member Inhofe: As the leading advocates of the U.S. biofuels...
May 17 2011
Committee on Transportation New Hampshire State Senate Hearing on HB 374, banning corn-based ethanol as an additive to gasoline sold...
April 28 2011
Committee on Environment and Public Works United States Senate Oversight Hearing on Domestic Renewable Fuels: From Ethanol to Advanced...
April 13 2011
The Biotechnology Industry Organization ("BIO") is pleased to submit responses to question numbers 1,2, 4, 5, and 6 of the...
April 11 2011
Comments of Biotechnology Industry Organization on EPA’s Draft Report Biofuels and the Environment: First Triennial Report to...
February 28 2011
Dear President Obama: The organizations below urge your Administration to maintain robust funding levels for the Department of...
January 11 2011
Dear President Obama: On behalf of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), Advanced Biofuels Association (ABFA), Algal Biomass...
October 21 2010
Dear President Obama: We are writing to ask for your support to provide additional guidance to the Department of Energy’s (DOE)...
September 20 2010
A letter to the House Ways & Means Committee by 54 trade organizations and companies supporting the extension of cellulosic biofuel...
June 23 2010
Comments of Biotechnology Industry Organization on EPA’s Call for Information on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated with Bioenergy...
June 13 2010
Dear Chairman Inouye and Ranking Member Cochran: As the Senate debates fiscal year 2011 federal funding, the undersigned organizations...
June 1 2010
BIO and 34 companies and trade organizations sent a letter to Chairman Levin and Ranking Member Camp, of the House Ways and Means...
May 17 2010
Letter to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), asking for recognition of...
March 3 2010
Dear Administrator Johnson, Biotechnology Industry Organization (“BIO”) is the world’s largest biotechnology...
June 23 2008
Dear President Bush: Now that the new Congress is in session we wanted to transmit our official policy recommendations on biofuels...
January 22 2007

Letters, Testimony & Comments

May 23 2013
BIO is pleased to comment on the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce’s (Committee) second Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) assessment white paper reviewing the RFS’s agricultural sector impacts.
April 23 2013
BIO appreciates the opportunity to comment on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) draft guidance for E85 Flexible Fuel Vehicle Weighting Factor for Model Years 2016-2019 Vehicles Under the Light-Duty Greenhouse Gas Emissions Program (draft guidance).
April 23 2013
BIO Applauds EPA’s Consistency in Methodology for Determining the Cellulosic Biofuel Volume for 2013 Renewable Fuel Standards.
April 23 2013
BIO comments on the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce’s (Committee) first in a series of white papers reviewing the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).

Press Releases

June 12 2013
The 10th Annual World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology will host the Clean Tech Investor Sessions featuring innovative industrial biotechnology companies selected to present to an elite audience of investors and analysts. 
June 4 2013
The 2013 BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology this June 16-19 in Montreal, Canada at the Palais des congrès de Montréal will mark the event’s 10th anniversary. 
June 3 2013
Florida's repeal of the state Renewable Fuel Standard could chill investment, innovation and job creation within the state's biotechnology industry.
May 24 2013
BIO submitted comments in response to a House Energy & Commerce white paper on the environmental benefits of biofuels, emphasizing that biofuels' environmental profile continues to improve.
May 21 2013
BIO invites leaders from the biotechnology, chemical and agricultural industries to submit proposals and abstracts for panels, individual papers and posters for the 2013 Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy.