To help congressional staff members and U.S. federal agency staff members better understand the facts and science of advanced biofuels, Iowa State University held a workshop entitled, “Advanced Biofuels and the RFS: The State of Technology, Investment and Market Outlook” in June 2012 in Washington D.C. “The more informed decision makers are, the more likely that any change to the RFS will be based on facts and science rather than beliefs, myths and politics,” said Bruce Babcock, director of the Biobased Industry Center and leader of the Iowa NSF EPSCoR energy policy platform. Babcock is also a professor of agricultural economics at Iowa State. Read the article.