Pretty Woman Julia Roberts has followed in the footsteps of Daryl Hannah, Willie Nelson and Morgan Freeman as a biofuel booster. She has signed on to chair a new Advisory Committee and be a spokesperson of Earth Biofuels. Based in Dallas, TX, the company has received support from other high-profile celebs in the past, with both Nelson and Freeman on their Board of Directors.
"It's very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it," Roberts said. "Biodiesel and ethanol are better for the environment and for the air we breathe."
The Advisory Board will provide guidance to senior management on key issues and will serve to broaden biofuels awareness on a national scale. Earth Biofuels and Ms. Roberts will collaborate on a program to encourage the use of clean-burning biodiesel fuel in the more than 500,000 diesel school buses currently in service across the United States.
"The use of biodiesel is a positive step toward minimizing pollutive emissions and greenhouse gases," Roberts added. By focusing on school buses, we can affect the health and wellbeing of the people most susceptible to that pollution -- our children -- today."
Go Julia go! [Earth Biofuels] via [Eco Chick]
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