Companies Tesla Inc FollowNEW YORK, June 23 (Reuters) - A U.S. Democratic lawmaker plans to reintroduce a bipartisan bill next month that would allow electricity generated from renewable biomass to qualify for credits under the nation's biofuel blending program. The new EV pathway would be a major overhaul of that program by expanding it to include stakeholders in the electric vehicle industry. Garamendi originally introduced the bill in 2021, with bipartisan cosponsors including Representative Jack Bergman, a Republican from Michigan, and Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks, a Republican from Iowa. Groups including the Renewable Fuel Standard Power Coalition, the Biomass Power Association and the American Loggers Council have endorsed the impending bill. The bill would also make biomass removed from federal forestlands eligible under the RFS as renewable biomass.

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Persons: Biden, John Garamendi, Garamendi, Jack Bergman, Mariannette Miller, Meeks, Stephanie Kelly, Alistair Bell Organizations: Tesla, U.S, Democratic, U.S . Renewable Fuels, . Environmental Protection Agency, Reuters, Republican, Standard Power Coalition, Biomass Power Association, Thomson Locations: California, Michigan, Iowa