Long-time political commentators Mike Murphy and Paul Begala have been scheduled to speak at the 2016 National Ethanol Conference. They will engage in a point-counterpoint luncheon discussion about the 2016 election.
The Federal Trade Commission has issued its 2015 Report on Ethanol Market Concentration. As in prior years, the report concludes that any unilateral or coordinated attempt to exercise market power in the U.S. ethanol industry is highly unlikely.
The European Renewable Ethanol Association welcomes the recently COP21 agreement and calls on the EU to make decarbonizing its transport sector a key priority of its actions to meet the COP21 ambitions.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has released its 2014 Data Book, showcasing increased use of renewable energy. According to the report, renewables accounted for approximately 11.1 percent of U.S. energy production in 2014.
Two U.S. Grains Council members recently traveled to Saudi Arabia to participate in consultations with sophisticated grain buyers and USGC's local consultant, demonstrating the value of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS).
The USDA has announced a conditional commitment for a $70 million loan guarantee to help build a 20 MMgy cellulosic biorefinery under development by an affiliate of Ensyn Corp. in Georgia. The facility will produce a renewable fuel oil product.
The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has announced a genetically engineered corn developed by Monsanto for increased ear biomass is no longer considered a regulated article under certain APHIS regulations.
USDA made small changes to its corn supply and demand projections in its last monthly World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates report for the calendar year, mostly due to ethanol.
The government of Queensland, Australia, recently passed a bill that requires the fuel industry to comply with a 3 percent ethanol mandate for gasoline and a 0.5 percent mandate for biobased diesel. The mandates take effect Jan. 1, 2017.
In a recent letter to the U.S. EPA, the Renewable Fuels Association urged the agency to take immediate administrative action to eliminate an arcane regulatory barrier that is impeding growth in the use of E15 and other higher-level ethanol blends.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has released the December edition of its Short-Term Energy Outlook, increasing its forecast for 2015 and 2016 ethanol production to an average of approximately 960,000 barrels per day.
The Indiana Office of Energy Development and the Indiana Corn Marketing Council recently announced that fuel retail stations in Indiana can begin applying for a share of $1.34 million through the Hoosier Homegrown Fuels Blender Pump Program.
At the World Climate Summit under way in Paris, France, the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance in cooperation with (S&T)2 Consultants Inc. released a new report on greenhouse gas reductions from biofuels.
The release of the U.S. EPA's final rulemaking for the renewable fuel standard (RFS) was a shock to the RINs market, the renewable identification numbers used by obligated parties to demonstrate compliance.
On Dec. 7, the European Commission announced it is opening a formal antitrust investigation to determine whether or not three ethanol producers have manipulated ethanol benchmarks published by a price reporting agency.
The final rulemaking for the 2016 renewable fuel standard (RFS) won't result in much more demand for corn, according to Darrell Good's weekly outlook, "Ethanol Production and Corn Consumption Prospects for 2016," in the FarmDocDaily.
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced it will hold a live webinar titled "Integrating Bioenergy into the 9th-12th Grade Classroom," on Dec. 10. According to the DOE, the webinar is part of the BioenergizeME Office Hours webinar series.
The global biofuels and industrial biotechnology sectors have united to call on world leaders attending the COP21 in Paris to support a global commitment to replace at least 15 percent of the world's total petroleum transportation fuel with biofuels.
Bliss Baker, the president of the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance, has called upon world leaders participating in the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris to signal their support for biofuels as one of the tools to fight climate change.
Argonne National Laboratory recently released a new version of the Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation (GREET) model, funded in part by the U.S. Department of Energy's Bioenergy Technologies Office.
This week, President Obama traveled to Paris to join nearly 200 nations for the COP21 global conference on climate change. Coinciding with the conference, was the announcement that Obama and 19 other world leaders launched"“Mission Innovation."
There may be speed bumps in the road ahead, yes, and the ethanol industry will continue to change and evolve, certainly. But this industry has been through that before and it will make it through again.
The U.S. EPA has released its long-anticipated final rule setting the 2014, 2015 and 2016 renewable volume requirements (RVOs) under the renewable fuel standard (RFS), along with the 2017 RVO for biomass-based diesel.
Positive aspects were found in the U.S. EPA's final rule establishing the renewable volume obligations for compliance with the renewable fuel standard, but the overall tone from associations responding immediately after the announcement was negative.
When corn prices increase farmers reap higher yields by making changes. According to a recent study, about one-third of the yield increase derives from more intensive management practices and two-thirds from cropping additional acreage.
The Surface Transportation Board has announced the Rail Energy Transportation Advisory Committee meeting has been rescheduled for Dec. 1. The committee serves as a forum for the discussion of issues related to the transportation of energy resources.
The U.S. EPA has released renewable identification number (RIN) generation data for October, reporting that 1.54 billion RINs were generated during the month, bringing the total for the first 10 months of the year to net total of 14.79 billion RINs.
Ontario Centres of Excellence and the Agricultural Adaptation Council are fostering innovation in the province's growing agri-based industrial bioproducts sector through the $$3 million Agri-Based Industrial Bioproducts R&D Challenge launched Nov. 9.
The U.S. ethanol industry set a new weekly production record the week ending Nov. 20 with production averaging 1.008 million barrels per day. This is the first time weekly production has surpassed the 1 million barrel-per-day mark.
Kansas Ethanol LLC, Lyons, Kansas, and Corn LP, Goldfield, Iowa, have received letters of notification that they have been approved as efficient ethanol producers by the U.S. EPA, bringing the total to 52 corn ethanol plants.
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