{"id":24182,"date":"2024-08-20T15:12:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T19:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&p=24182"},"modified":"2024-08-20T15:12:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T19:12:13","slug":"sen-ossoff-accelerating-sustainable-aviation-fuel-development-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-accelerating-sustainable-aviation-fuel-development-in-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Accelerating Sustainable Aviation Fuel Development in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta, Ga.<\/strong> \u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is delivering Federal resources to accelerate the development of sustainable aviation fuels in Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, Sen. Ossoff announced he is delivering two Federal grants through the Federal Aviation Administration<\/a> to help accelerate the development of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), strengthen American energy security, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff is delivering $3,096,047 to LanzaJet, a sustainable aviation fuel producer, to support their new production facility in Soperton, Georgia, and help install new storage tanks, which are expected to help produce hundreds of thousands of gallons of sustainable aviation fuel annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff is also delivering $240,000 to the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to strengthen the regional supply chains and infrastructure needed to deploy sustainable aviation fuels at the airport, the busiest in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI congratulate LanzaJet and the City of Atlanta on this new Federal funding and their innovative efforts to make aviation more sustainable,\u201d Sen. Ossoff said. <\/strong>\u201cGeorgia should lead the nation in clean energy and renewable energy technology, and LanzaJet and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport are a key part of that effort.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLanzaJet is grateful to be a recipient of a FAA FAST grant. Federal support for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) will be critical as we help to transform an 80+ year-old fossil fuel industry. SAF is the best opportunity aviation has to decarbonize and funding from this program helps advance the entire industry – providing an incredible opportunity to aviation, and to the farmers across America who are growing the feedstocks critical to supporting the SAF industry with feedstock and ethanol,\u201d said Jimmy Samartzis, CEO of LanzaJet. <\/strong>\u201cLanzaJet is leading the way with the world\u2019s only ethanol-to-SAF plant in Soperton, GA. We thank Senators Warnock and Ossoff for co-sponsoring this legislation, ensuring the United States is poised to lead the way in SAF. Funding like this will be instrumental in achieving aviation\u2019s net zero targets while also supporting domestic energy security and economic development by investing in rural communities across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs the busiest airport in the world, we recognize the importance of advancing technology and sustainability initiatives,\u201d said Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Interim General Manager Jan Lennon.<\/strong> \u201cThis grant will allow us to pursue initiatives in sustainable aviation fuel deployment at ATL to maintain our position as a leader in the industry.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff continues working to strengthen American energy security and advance new aviation fuel technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year, Sen. Ossoff\u2019s bipartisan Hydrogen Aviation Strategy Act<\/em> became law<\/a> to advance the study and development of hydrogen energy for use in aviation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Atlanta, Ga. \u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is delivering Federal resources to accelerate the development of sustainable aviation fuels in Georgia. Today, Sen. Ossoff announced he is delivering two Federal grants through the Federal Aviation Administration to help accelerate the development of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), strengthen American energy security, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Sen. Ossoff is […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24182","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/24182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/24182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24184,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/24182\/revisions\/24184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}