Rentech Announces Conference Schedule for July 2012

Rentech, Inc. (NYSE AMEX: RTK) today announced its conference schedule for July 2012.

July 10-11, 2012U.S. Department of Energy Biomass 2012: Confronting Challenges, Creating Opportunities—Sustaining a Commitment to BioenergyWashington, D.C.

Plenary Session: The Future of the Renewable Fuel Standard and Bioenergy Tax PolicySpeaking Time: July 10th, 2:15 p.m. EDTPresenter: James McVaney, Vice President, Government Affairs and Aerospace Business Development

Panel: Aviation Biofuels: Are you Getting on Board?Speaking Time: July 11th, 10:45 a.m. EDTPresenter: Joshua Pearson, Manager of Biorefinery Integration

About Rentech, Inc.

Rentech, Inc. (www.rentechinc.com) owns and develops technologies that enable the production of certified synthetic fuels and renewable power when integrated with certain other third-party technologies. The Company’s clean energy technology portfolio includes the Rentech-SilvaGas biomass gasification technology and the Rentech-ClearFuels biomass gasification technology, both of which can produce synthesis gas from biomass and waste materials for production of renewable power and fuels. The Rentech-ClearFuels Gasifier can also produce renewable hydrogen as a product. Rentech also owns the patented Rentech Process which is based on Fischer-Tropsch chemistry. The Rentech Process can convert syngas from the Company’s own or other gasification technologies into complex hydrocarbons that then can be upgraded into fuels or chemicals using refining technology that we license.

Rentech also owns, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, the general partner interest and approximately 61% of the common units representing limited partner interests in Rentech Nitrogen Partners, L.P. (www.rentechnitrogen.com), a publicly traded limited partnership. Rentech Nitrogen Partners, L.P. manufactures and sells nitrogen fertilizer products including ammonia, urea ammonia nitrate, granular urea and urea liquor in the Mid Corn Belt region of the United States.