Sustainable Bioenergy, Farms, and Forests - July 8, 2016 | Newsletter

House Bill Promotes Innovative New Building Material: Wood

On July 6, Representatives Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson (R-PA), and Derek Kilmer (D-WA) introduced the Timber Innovation Act (H.R. 5628). The bill supports new construction of so-called “tall wood” buildings through the establishment of federal research and development programs. Tall wood buildings use wood construction materials that are cheaper and have lower lifecycle carbon emissions when compared to traditional construction materials such as steel and concrete. The bill is a companion to Senate bill (S. 2892), introduced by Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Mike Crapo (R-ID).

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Upcoming Events:

1) 19th Annual Congressional Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency EXPO + Policy Forum

Tuesday, July 12
9:30 am - 4:30 pm

Cannon House Office Building - Caucus Room 345
C Street SE & 1st St, SE

The Expo is open to the public and free for attendees.

The 19th Annual Congressional Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency EXPO and Policy Forum will bring together up to 50 businesses, trade associations, and government agencies to showcase renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. In every state across the country, these technologies are having a significant impact in business development and job creation in the manufacturing, transmission, power, transportation, and building sectors. The bipartisanHouse Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Caucus and the Senate Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Caucus are honorary co-hosts of the Expo.

2) Building a Billion-Ton Bioeconomy

Tuesday, July 19
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

1300 Longworth House Office Building
Independence Avenue SE and New Jersey Avenue SE

Please RSVP to expedite check-in

The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) invites you to a briefing assessing the ability of the United States to sustainably produce 1 billion tons of renewable non-food biomass every year. This could potentially displace more than 30 percent of the country's petroleum consumption. The briefing will focus on key findings from volume 1 of the 2016 Billion-Ton Update, which examines the technical feasibility of a billion-ton annual biomass supply chain by 2040. The 2016 report, to be released at the Bioenergy 2016 conference in mid-July, builds and expands on previous Billion-Ton studies, released in 2005 and 2011 by the Department of Energy's Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO).

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