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S 3031 110th Congress Senate Environmental Protection Alcohol as fuel Alternative energy sources Motor vehicle pollution control Standards Transportation and Public Works

A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to limit the use of ethanol to meet the renewable fuel standard, and for other purposes.

Introduced: May 19, 2008 See on congress.gov
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May 19, 2008
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
May 19, 2008
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Clean Air Act to require the applicable volume of ethanol derived from corn starch in renewable fuel for the years 2006 through 2022 to not exceed nine billion gallons.

Requires the renewable fuel regulations to impose penalties for failures to comply with advanced biofuel, cellulosic biofuel, and biomass-based diesel standards.

What's happening now May 19, 2008

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Republican 3
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Barrasso, John
Wyoming · May 19, 2008
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Collins, Susan M.
Maine · May 19, 2008
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Cornyn, John
Texas · May 19, 2008
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3031: A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to limit the use of ethanol to meet the renewable fuel standard, and for other purposes.. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-S-3031/
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"S. 3031: A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to limit the use of ethanol to meet the renewable fuel standard, and for other purposes.." 110th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/110-S-3031/.
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S. 3031, 110th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/110-S-3031/.
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