Syngenta has announced a three-year commitment to contribute $1 to the renewable fuels industry for every acre planted with Enogen trait technology, beginning with this year's growing season. The initiative will support the renewable fuel standard.
East Kansas Agri-Energy LLC is preparing for restart this fall after idling in October. The largest shareholder of the plant, Clean Energy Capital LLC, aims to implement a strategic plan that would replace most members of the board of directors.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has thrown out the U.S. EPA's three-year deferment of biogenic emissions from the Greenhouse Gas Tailoring rule, just over one year before it expires.
Dominion Virginia Power placed its Altavista Power Station into commercial operation July 12 with renewable biomass as its fuel, the first of three stations to be converted from coal to biomass. The conversion plan was originally announced in 2011.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled in the case Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. EPA that EPA provided insufficient legal justification to defer greenhouse gas (GHG) regulation of biogenic emissions.
I heard some interesting and fun E15-related stories recently, about what the fuel has done for a South Dakota station owner as well as some on-track testing of what happens when water and E15 meet.
The European Commission and members of European industry will invest more than EUR 22 billion ($28.70 billion) over the next seven years under the Horizon 2020 research initiative. A portion of that investment will support biobased innovations.
Officials from Green Circle Bio Energy have announced the company is locating an energy wood pellet manufacturing facility in the George County Industrial Park. The 500,000 ton per facility is expected to be operational in 2015.
A new report published by World Growth argues that the E.U.'s proposal regarding indirect land use change (ILUC) carbon emissions under the Renewable Energy Directive represents a futile effort to curb productive land use in Asia.
Waste Management of Des Moines, Iowa, announced it is expanding its landfill biogas-to-electricity facility at Metro Waste Authority in Polk County. The expansion, which will include the installation of up to four generators, will begin in October.
Sundrop Fuels Inc. announced that it has selected IHI E&C International Corporation, a U.S. subsidiary of Tokyo-based IHI Corporation, as contractor of choice for its inaugural facility near Alexandria, La.
A recent vote by the EU Parliament's Environment Committee has voted to adopt the report of Corinne Lepage, prompting comment by ePURE, which represents the EU ethanol industry, and UNICA, the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association.
BioNitrogen Corp. has announced an agreement to acquire approximately 245 acres of land in Pointe Coupe Parish, La., near a port for $2 million. The company has also selected the CCC Group Inc. to build its first plant in Hardee County, Fla.
The U.S. EPA has published a notice of data availability pertaining to ethanol produced from barley under the renewable fuel standard (RFS). Public comments will be accepted for 30 days following the publication of the notice in the Federal Register.
The European Commission and members of European industry will invest more than EUR 22 billion ($28.70 billion) over the next seven years under the Horizon 2020 research initiative. A portion of that investment will support biobased innovations.
A new report published by World Growth argues that the E.U.'s proposal regarding indirect land use change (ILUC) carbon emissions under the Renewable Energy Directive represents a futile effort to curb productive land use in Asia.
A group of biofuels experts gathered July 11, in Washington, D.C., to discuss the so-called blend wall, E15 and progress on the cellulosic ethanol front. The event was hosted by Fuels America, in cooperation with two members of Congress.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a stripped down version of the Farm Bill on July 11. Members of Congress voted 216-208 to approve the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013, or H.R. 2642.
Even after factoring in reduced beginning stocks for the upcoming corn marketing year and the lower forecasted harvested acres following the acreage report, the USDA is projecting U.S. corn production at just below 14 billion bushels.
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