BioDiesel Facility Commercial Environmental Permitting Fact Sheet Ora Wa Form

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biodiesel is renewable fuel made from vegetable oils and animal fats such as soybean oil and it's something that we do a lot of here in the state of iowa iowa is the number one producer of biodiesel in the nation we have 11 biodiesel plants in the state we have capacity to produce over 400 million gallons of biodiesel a year in 2021 the industry produced approximately 340 million gallons of biodiesel the industry adds over 6 500 jobs to the state employed through either directly at the plants or related industries that do business with and around and through those plants then from an agriculture standpoint iowa is the leading one of the leading soybean producing states along with illinois we are the leading soybean processing state so we have a lot of feedstocks available we are leading pork producer leading corn producer and poultry egg layer so we have lots of animal fats in addition to the plentiful supplies of soybean oil here and so that a lot of that product can that soybean oil