After compleeting rigorous Federal tests in a State monitored  program, Green Plus has received an approval from the Texas Commission for Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for the state’s low emission diesel program.  The Texas approval accompanies three US EPA product registrations for Biofriendly products.  This proves that Green Plus works and is safe for use;  it vindicates a company and a product that were placed under tremendous, unfounded scrutiny thanks to the misinformation and outright falsehoods presented by competitors and naysayers such as ORYXE Energy International, WFAA in Dallas, Texas and David Touretzky.

The approval by TCEQ means that Green Plus can now be used as an alternative formulation solution to meet the Texas Low Emission Diesel (TxLED) requirements.

The Texas Low Emission Diesel program is designed to lower emissions of Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) and other smog-forming pollutants from diesel-powered motor vehicles and non-road equipment in 110 counties in Texas where air quality is a concern. Green Plus was approved as a solution for diesel fuel producers, importers, retailers and others to meet this State requirement.

“We are pleased that Green Plus has been accepted as an emissions solution option in Texas,” Commented Robert Carroll, Chairman and CEO of Biofriendly Corporation. “Green Plus is a solution that not only helps fuel burn cleaner, it is easy to implement on a broad scale and extremely cost effective. We feel we can make a bigger difference in the environment at a lower cost than any other solution on the market,”

The approval was granted to Biofriendly’s liquid combustion catalyst by TCEQ after Green Plus passed a series of stringent Federal Test Procedures. The test compared the current standard diesel used in Texas and treated with Green Plus, with the emissions output of a much cleaner burning diesel fuel as required by TCEQ. The results of this test, which was audited and approved by the State of Texas, proved that Green Plus reduced harmful emissions to a level equivalent to the cleaner diesel blend.

To get a fair view of the story we would like to point interested parties toward, the official EPA Information Sheet regarding the alleged violation. This gives a pretty fair look at what happened.

There is also a balanced article from NBC News that tells both sides and gives a fairly accurate description of the story.

Since that time in Early February, Touretzky has created several sites with these same falsehoods listed above, including one on the Carnegie Mellon server. As what was written is libelous, it violated the school’s computing policy. After showing school officials what Touretzky had written, the school forced him to remove the content. To this day however, Touretzky uses this site as a “link farm” for the smear campaign on Biofriendly.

Touretzky actions have also been called into question by others. Below are some links that we have found while researching David Touretzky. Feel free to click on them and please keep what you find in mind while browsing any of Touretzky’s anti-biofriendly websites.

http://www.wpxi.com/target11/2176679/detail.html

http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/touretzky00.html

http://personales.com/panama/chepo/schwartz/

http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/20000713_ny_touretzky_dep.html

(The letter is transcribed here for ease of viewing, a copy of the actual letter is below this transcription)
Dear John,

This letter is intended to record a recent discussion between us. You were speaking on behalf of Biofriendly Corporation and contacted me about a letter by Oryxe Energy International, a competitor of Biofriendly Corporation, which was sent to Ms. Margo Oge of the US EPA and forwarded by her to the Texas Commission foe Environmental Quality (TCEQ). The letter to EPA included a statement that Biofriendly’s Green Plus® fuel combustion catalyst was tested at the University of California, Riverside’s CE-CERT lab “without demonstrating the required emissions reductions.” In addition my name was cited in the letter from Oryxe to the US Environmental Protection Agency as the person to contact to confirm the above statement.

As per our discussion CE-CERT has never tested Biofriendly’s Green Plus® fuel combustion catalyst and claims made by Oryxe in the letter to the EPA are false. Also, no one from the EPA or Biofriendly has contacted me regarding this issue and I was not copied on the letter to EPA. Furthermore, when previously contacted by reporters from NPR and the Dallas Morning News attempting to learn about UCR’s experience with the Biofriendly additive, I have told them that CE-CERT’s lab had not tested the biofriendly additive.

This letter should set the record straight on CE-CERT’s testing of the Biofriendly technology.

Sincerely,

Wayne Miller, Ph.D.

Letter from the Univerity of Riverside Defending Biofriendly Corporation