Renewable Fuels Association

The Renewable Fuels Association is a well-funded corporate lobby that promotes government support for ethanol fuel. It is a supporter of the Alliance for Abundant Food and Energy whose other members include Archer Daniels Midland. Deere & Company, DuPont and Monsanto.

Directors
Accessed February 2009:

*Jim Stewart 	Xethanol BioFuels, LLC
 * Chris Standlee - RFA Chairman, Abengoa Bioenergy Corp.
 * Bob Sather 	Ace Ethanol, LLC
 * Scott Trainum 	Adkins Energy, LLC
 * Randall Doyal 	Al-Corn Clean Fuel
 * Ed Harjehausen 	Archer Daniels Midland Co.
 * Ron Miller 	Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings Inc.
 * Kevin Malchine 	Badger State Ethanol, LLC
 * Raymond Defenbaugh 	Big River Resources West Burlington, LLC
 * Jeff Zueger 	Blue Flint Ethanol
 * Gary Drook 	Central Indiana Ethanol. LLC
 * Kerry Nixon 	Central MN Ethanol Coop
 * Bill Lee 	Chippewa Valley Ethanol Co.
 * Mick Henderson 	Commonwealth Agri-Energy, LLC
 * Scott Mundt 	Dakota Ethanol, LLC
 * Gerald Bachmeier 	DENCO, LLC
 * Steven Gardner 	East Kansas Agri-Energy, LLC
 * Jim Seurer 	Glacial Lakes Energy, LLC
 * Dave Nelson 	Global Ethanol
 * Dermot O'Brien 	Golden Cheese Company of CA
 * Walter Wendland 	Golden Grain Energy, LLC
 * Tracey Olson 	Granite Falls Energy, LLC
 * Richard Ruebe 	GTL Resources, USA
 * Ben Brown 	Heartland Corn Products
 * Bill Paulsen 	Heartland Grain Fuels, LP
 * Keith Gibson 	Iroquois Bio-Energy Company, LLC
 * Chuck Woodside - RFA Secretary, 	KAAPA Ethanol, LLC
 * Eric Mosbey 	Lincolnland Agri-Energy, LLC
 * Steve Roe 	Little Sioux Corn Processors, LP
 * Sean Martin 	Louis Dreyfus Commodities
 * Steven Wagner 	Merrick & Company
 * Ryland Utlaut 	Mid-Missouri Energy
 * Nathan Kimpel - RFA Treasurer, New Energy Corp.
 * [[Glen Petersen 	North Country Ethanol, LLC
 * Neil Koehler 	Pacific Ethanol, Inc.
 * Jim Rottman 	Parallel Products
 * Mike Jerke 	Quad County Corn Processors
 * Lee Reeve 	Reeve Agri Energy
 * Bernie Punt 	Siouxland Energy & Livestock Coop
 * Doug Mortensen 	Tate & Lyle
 * Neill McKinstray 	The Andersons Inc.
 * Charles Wilson 	Trenton Agri Products, LLC
 * Jeff Robertson 	United Wisconsin Grain Producers LLC
 * Don Endres 	VeraSun Energy Corp.
 * John Howe 	Verenium Corp.
 * Michael Sawyer 	Western New York Energy, LLC
 * Steve Christensen 	Western Wisconsin Energy, LLC

Contact Details
One Massachusetts Avenue, NW - Suite 820 Washington, DC 20001 Phone: (202) 289-3835 Website: http://www.ethanolrfa.org/

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * Don Endres

External Articles

 * Diane Farsetta, A Planted Story on Ethanol Plants, PRWatch.org, April 6, 2006.
 * Alexei Barrionuevo, Springtime for Ethanol, New York Times, January 23, 2007.
 * GMA Is Fueling the Ethanol Backlash, PRWatch.org, May 14, 2008.
 * Obama's Love Affair with Ethanol, PRWatch.org, July 3, 2008
 * Heavyweights to Lobby for More Biofuel, Washington Post, July 25, 2008.
 * Doug Cameron, Agribusiness Group Forms To Protect Ethanol Subsidies, Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2008.
 * New biofuels lobbying group formed by some of the biggest players in agribusiness, Associated Press, July 25, 2008