New Biodiesel Laws in Missouri and South Dakota (USA)

Missouri is looking at setting a biodiesel mandate of 5% which could match the highest biodiesel mandate in the country.

New Mexico will be B5 by 2012 and four other states have B2 mandates.

The Missouri bill passed the first preliminary approval hurdle this week and now needs to be voted on in the state House and Senate before moving forward.

In South Dakota, the Governor has signed into law a piece of legislation that drops the tax on diesel fuel by two cents a gallon if it contains at least five percent biodiesel blended in.

The law begins once South Dakota can make at least 20 million gallons of the biofuel a year.