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New Biden Administration Actions to Spur DoD Use of Advance Sustainable Aviation Fuels

Kelsey Reichmann

Wednesday, September 15th, 2021

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New Biden Administration Actions to Spur DoD Use of Advance Sustainable Aviation Fuels

Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC, with I-395 freeway on the left, and the Air Force Memorial up middle.

The Biden administration has instructed the Department of Defense to use funding on initiatives related to expanding the use of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) and increasing new and legacy aircraft efficiencies to decrease aviation emissions. The new actions were released by the White House on Sept. 9 and include broad government-wide measures focused on increasing the domestic production and utilization of SAF with the goal of producing three billion gallons of SAF per year and reducing emissions by 20 percent…

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