The Advanced Biofuels Association has released comments calling on the U.S. EPA to restore regulatory certainty in its proposed renewable volume obligation (RVO) under the RFS and calling on the agency to increase the RVO for advanced biofuels.
The New Mexico House of Representatives on Feb. 17 failed for the second consecutive year to pass legislation that aims to implement a state Clean Fuel Standard. This year's bill, SB 14, is now dead.
The U.S. EPA is seeking nominations for scientific experts to serve on an external expert panel to peer review the agency's third triennial report to congress on biofuels and the environment. Nominations can be submited through March 3.
Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor testified on Feb. 16 before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works at its hearing titled “The Environmental Protection Agency's Renewable Fuel Standard Program: Challenges and Opportunities�.
A report recently released in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences brought to life several misrepresentations of the environmental outcomes of the RFS. ACE's Ron Alverson is refuting three key misrepresentations.
Aemetis Inc. announced on Feb. 16 that the Universal Biofuels subsidiary of Aemetis in Kakinada, India has agreed to acquire a site to construct a tallow oil refining facility to provide feedstock to the company's biodiesel and SAF plants.
The New Mexico House of Representatives on Feb. 17 failed for the second consecutive year to pass legislation that aims to implement a state Clean Fuel Standard. This year's bill, SB 14, is now dead.
Corn ethanol can achieve net-zero carbon emissions before 2050
By Renewable Fuels Association
February 21, 2022
A report released on Feb. 21 shows that new and emerging technologies and practices could help the ethanol industry achieve net-zero carbon emissions well before its current goal of 2050, according to the RFA.
With a strong focus on quality and safety, a northern Minnesota-based industrial cleaning company with service locations throughout the Corn Belt has grown with, and near, ethanol producers.
Enacted in 2005 and expanded in 2007, the RFS has been a “resounding success� by any measure, the RFA told the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works in testimony submitted Feb. 16 ahead of a hearing on the RFS program.
The U.S. EPA released updated SRE data on Feb. 17, reporting that no new SRE petitions were filed under the RFS in the proceeding month. In addition, the agency did not act on any of the 69 SRE petitions that have been pending since mid-January.
Shell first to supply SAF to customers in Singapore
By Shell
February 18, 2022
The company also reported that it has completed the upgrading of its facility in Singapore, which will enable blending of SAF in Singapore.
The company has received necessary commercial commitments to move forward with the permitting and construction of the project, which will be in southern California.
According to a new study from the University of Minnesota Extension, the state's ethanol industry produced 1.27 billion gallons of ethanol in 2021, 33 percent higher than 2020's volume, resulting in over $6 billion in economic activity.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office has released two new requests for information related to biomass conversion research and development and community organic waste programs.
For years, E15 has been restricted in the summer. A Trump-era rule changed that but was legally invalidated last July, leaving the industry scrambling for another solution.
Letting a Good Crisis Go to Waste
By Ron Lamberty
February 17, 2022
Current climate policy proposals largely ignore ethanol, despite the well-documented fact that ethanol has been the primary tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the United States by tens of millions of tons over the past three decades.
Delivery of the system is scheduled to be complete by October 2022. Valmet's delivery includes the automation system, along with installation, commissioning and training.
Eligible applicants include retail petroleum dispensers in Minnesota with no more than 10 retail petroleum dispensing sites, regardless of their location. This includes retail service stations, convenience stations and hypermarket fueling stations.
California has nearly 1.3 million flex fuel vehicles (FFVs) on the road today representing an immediate potential for 4-5 million metric tons of emissions reduced annually if all FFVs exclusively filled with E85 flex fuel.
The program will finance pilot projects that create market opportunities for U.S. agricultural and forestry products that use climate-smart practices and include innovative, cost-effective ways to measure and verify greenhouse gas benefits.
Corn stover ethanol production still holds great promise. But at least two of the former “big three” assets in the space have been repurposed for different forms of biofuel production.
The U.S. EPA is seeking nominations for scientific experts to serve on an external expert panel to peer review the agency's third triennial report to congress on biofuels and the environment.
The Conversion Research and Development program is working towards improved robustness of microbial cells, improved robustness of catalytic processes, as well as the state-of-technology analyses in the BETO research portfolio.
Velocys has joined Zero Carbon Humber, a carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (CCUS) hub under development in northern England. Participation in ZCH will enable the production of carbon-negative SAF at Velocys' proposed biorefinery.
At Growth Energy's 13th Annual Executive Leadership Conference, hundreds of industry stakeholders networked with producers that not only survived the pandemic, but continue to press forward with the investments needed to fuel a low-carbon future.
ICM will begin construction on the latest Advanced Processing Package this summer. Once installation is complete, Cardinal Ethanol expects to initially produce over 3 pounds of high protein per bushel, later ramping up to 5 pounds per bushel.
The USDA announced on Feb. 7 it will invest $1 billion in partnerships to support America's climate-smart farmers, ranchers and forest owners through its new Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities opportunity.
The RFA has welcomed Wolf Carbon Solutions, a developer and operator of CCUS infrastructure, and Predictive Search, a provider of recruiting and advisory services to the ethanol industry, as its newest associate members.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration recently released data showing U.S. manufacturers produced approximately 850,000 tons of densified biomass fuel in October, with sales reaching 760,000 tons.
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