FuelCell Energy Inc. has resumed manufacturing at its Torrington, Connecticut, facility, which temporarily suspended manufacturing activities in March due to COVID-19. The company also noted construction is underway on a California biogas project.
The RFS Power Coalition expressed support for legislation introduced on June 17 by Sens. John Thune, R-S.D., and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H. The bill requires the EPA to take action pending RFS biofuels registration and pathway applications.
The U.S. EPA has released renewable identification number (RIN) generation data for May, reporting that nearly 1.26 billion RINs were generated under the RFS during the month, down from 1.72 billion generated during the same month of 2019.
Construction is more than halfway finished on the City of Boulder's biogas use enhancement project, located at the city's water resource recovery facility. Biogas produced from wastewater digesters will be converted into RNG for vehicle fuel.
National Carbon Technologies on June 16 announced its acquisition of Cool Planet's biocarbon business, including more than 50 issued and pending patents for biocarbon production and product technologies.
The U.S. EPA on June 18 released updated small refinery exemption data that shows small refiners have filed 52 “gap year� SRE petitions for RFS compliance years 2011 through 2018 in an effort to circumvent the Tenth Circuit Court's January ruling.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, discussed issues related to the post-2022 Renewable Fuel Standard, retroactive small refinery exemptions (SREs), and COVID-19 relief for the ag community during a media call held June 16.
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., has introduced a bill that aims to approve certain advanced biofuel registrations under the RFS that the EPA has failed to take action on and set a deadline for the agency to act on future pathway and registration petitions.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy on June 16 announced it will award $17 million to 11 advanced carbon utilization projects. Approximately $6 million of that funding will support algae projects.
Top scientists, engineers, and analysts with the Department of Energy's Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines initiative are examining how simultaneous improvements to fuels and engines can improve efficiency and reduce emissions and costs.
The U.S. EPA has determined that Drylet's renewable natural gas (RNG) boosting biocatalyst, Bio React AD, has no impact on biofuel pathways approved under the Renewable Fuel Standards federal program, Drylet announced on June 8.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue on June 12 issued a memorandum to Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen providing direction that will serve as a blueprint to help modernize the agency's systems and approaches.
U.K.-based Velocys plc announced on June 12 the company has secured an additional £500,000 in grant funding from the U.K. government in support of its proposed Altalto Immingham waste-to-fuels plant that will produce sustainable aviation fuel.
The first-of-its-kind in the nation RNG offloading station at Dane County, Wisconsin's landfill on June 11 received its first load of RNG from a manure digester in the Yahara Lakes Watershed developed by Brightmark.
Haldor Topsoe on June 9 announced that its HydroFlex technology will be installed at a refinery in Bakersfield, California, that is being retooled by Global Clean Energy to produce renewable diesel from proprietary camelina oil and other feedstocks.
The Biogenic CO2 Coalition sent a letter to U.S. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler on June 9 urging the agency to seek public comments on the regulatory treatment of biogenic CO2 from annual agriculture crops.
A report released by the UN Environment Programme, the Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre, and BloombergNEF on June 10 shows biomass and waste-to-energy received $123 billion in financing for new projects between 2010 and 2019.
Valmet will supply automation to a gas clean-up system at Viridor's Dunbar Landfill site in East Lothian, Scotland, U.K. The first-of-its-kind system allows the successful capture of CO2 and transforms landfill gas into transport fuels.
A group of nine biofuel and ag groups sent a letter to U.S. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler on June 9 requesting more information about small refinery exemption (SRE) petitions the agency has reportedly received for past RFS compliance years.
A group of 44 members of Congress sent a letter to President Trump on June 8 urging him to deny requests filed with the U.S. EPA by several governors seeking a waiver of 2020 Renewable Fuel Standard blending requirements.
A 30-day public comment period is now open on the U.S. EPA's proposal to determine that no additional fuel control measures are necessary to mitigate air quality impacts of required renewable fuel volumes under the Renewable Fuel Standard.
Orion Energy Partners L.P., GCM Grosvenor and Voya Investment Management have announced a capital partnership with Bakersfield Renewable Fuels, a company that is retooling a refinery in California to produce renewable diesel.
Bioenergy DevCo announced June 4 that it has entered into an agreement with Chesapeake Utilities Corp., a NYSE-listed diversified energy company, on a project to remove excess organics from the poultry industry and convert it into RNG.
The U.S. EPA on June 4 released a proposed rule that will require all future significant regulations promulgated under the Clean Air Act to be accompanied by a benefit-cost analysis (BCA). The RFS is among the CAA programs likely to be affected.
LanzaTech has launched LanzaJet Inc., a new company that will produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for a sector requiring climate friendly fuel options as it starts to recover from the impacts of COVID-19.
DMT Clear Gas Solutions has announced Seabreeze Farm, a third-generation dairy farm owned by the Keulen family, will update their RNG equipment using DMT's patented three-stage membrane separation system.
U.S. imports of biomass-based diesel grew 26 percent in 2019 to more than 27,000 barrels per day, reversing three years of decline. Imports of biomass-based diesel increased in 2019 because of the increase in renewable diesel imports from Singapore.
Collin O'Mara, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, sent a letter to U.S. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler on May 29 urging the agency to approve requests to waive RFS blending requirements submitted by six governors.
Xebec Adsorption Inc. has signed a letter of intent (LOI) for a commercial renewable natural gas (RNG) project in Alberta and has partnered with Fonds de solidarité FTQ to launch an investment fund to increase RNG production in Quebec.
HollyFrontier Corp. on June 1 announced that its board of directors has approved a plan to convert the Cheyenne Refinery to renewable diesel production and to construct a pre-treatment unit (PTU) located at the Artesia Refinery.
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