Douglas Durante

Executive Director at Clean Fuels Development Coalition

Chair

Through his consulting practice, Mr. Durante serves as the Executive Director and Washington Representative of the Clean Fuels Development Coalition (CFDC), a non-profit organization he formed in 1987. The CFDC has a broad-based membership including automotive, agricultural, and other alternative energy interests supporting programs and policies that expand the market for ethanol and other biofuels. Mr. Durante has been working in the fields of energy, transportation, and the environment since 1977 serving as the Director of Public Affairs for the National Alcohol Fuels Commission and later served as a Special Assistant in the Office of Alcohol Fuels at the U.S. Department of Energy.

Mr. Durante was on the negotiating committee between industry and the U.S. EPA for the reformulated gasoline and oxy fuel programs created in the Clean Air Act of 1990 and served as an advisor on the ad hoc Senate Committee that created the Renewable Fuels Standard and represents ethanol and biofuel interests nationally and internationally.

He has served on numerous state and federal advisory clean fuels committees including Chair of the Fuels Subcommittee of the Federal Biomass Advisory Committee and on the Governors’ Ethanol Coalition Biomass Advisory Committee. He also served on the U.S. EPA Clean Fuels Advisory Committee, and the Department of Energy's Business Roundtable Group. He has served on fuel and pollution control commissions in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Mexico.

Mr. Durante has been a media spokesman for ethanol interests and authored numerous articles on energy and transportation. He has represented the CFDC and other clients before Congressional Committees, state legislatures, the United Nations Sustainability Council, and at major US and international conferences. He has also helped develop several ethanol projects in the U.S. preparing business plans and marketing strategies.