Exhibit 24.1
                          GENERAL POWER OF ATTORNEY

       KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, each person whose signature appears
  below hereby authorizes, constitutes and appoints Dennis L. Yakobson and
  Ronald C. Butz, and each of them, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact
  and agents with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him
  and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign this
  Registration Statement for the registration under the Securities Act of
  1933, as amended, of Common Stock of Rentech, Inc. and any and all
  pre-effective and post-effective amendments to this Registration Statement,
  together with any and all exhibits thereto and other documents required
  to be filed with respect hereto and thereto and to file the same with the
  Securities and Exchange Commission and any other regulatory, granting
  unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents and each of them, full power and
  authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite or
  necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents
  and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
  confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or each of them, or
  their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be
  done by virtue hereof and incorporate such changes as any of the said
  attorneys-in-fact deems appropriate.

       Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
  Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
  capacities and on the dates indicated.

  Signature               Title                          Date

  (signature)
  --------------------    President, Chief Executive     February 26, 2000
  Dennis L. Yakobson      Officer and Director

  (signature)
  --------------------    Vice President, Chief          February 26, 2000
  Ronald C. Butz          Operating Officer, Secretary
                          and Director

  (signature)
  --------------------     Vice President - Finance,     February 26, 2000
  James P. Samuels         Chief Financial Officer

  (signature)
  --------------------    Director                       February 26, 2000
  John J. Ball

  (signature)
  --------------------     Director                      February 26, 2000
  Erich W. Tiepel

  (signature)
  --------------------     Director                      February 26, 2000
  John P. Diesel

  (signature)
  --------------------     Director                      February 26, 2000
  Douglas L. Sheeran