Renewable Chemicals & Biobased Materials

Creating a Biobased Economy February 6, 2012	Renewable Chemicals Present Major Opportunity to Commercialize Industrial Biotechnology February 2, 2012
Diverse Technologies Aim to Make the Leap from Lab to Market January 9, 2012 The challenge of conversion of biomass – particularly lignocellulosic biomass and...	Bio-based Chemicals Industry Looks to Biomass & Capital to Maintain Momentum January 9, 2012 The timing for building a biobased economy as an option to the current petroleum-based one, to...

Key Documents

Oils produced by algae hold the potential for replacing fossil resources in many products. In...

Biobased products can supplement or replace a wide variety of petroleum-based products, and...

May 17 2011

Dear Chairman Frelinghuysen and Ranking Member Visclosky: On behalf of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), I am writing to...

December 1 2010

Dear Honorable Sander Levin and Honorable Dave Camp, We applaud your ongoing leadership on strengthening U.S. manufacturing and...

September 20 2010

Dear President Obama: We are writing to ask for your support to provide additional guidance to the Department of Energy’s (DOE)...

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) appreciates the opportunity to provide comments on the proposed regulations to implement...

February 21 2012

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today applauded President Obama’s directive to expand and...

February 21 2012

With strong policy direction, the United States can leverage its leadership in biotechnology, agricultural...

February 16 2012

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 16, 2012) – Company executives, scientists and government officials will bring a global...

February 9 2012

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 9, 2012) – Biofuel and renewable chemical company executives, scientists and...

December 14 2011

Sustained, long-term tax policy is vital to emerging alternative energy technologies seeking to cross the valley of...