OK, good news and bad news on the US budget deal. First, the bad news. The budget compromise appears to be running into headwinds in the Senate, in the form of a voting delay imposed by Rand Paul of Kentucky, while opposition in the House from a group of Democrats and hardline conservatives is putting […]
In Colorado, Gevo announced that it has strengthened its existing relationship with Musket Corporation, a national fuel distributor under the umbrella of the Love’s Family of Companies, by amending its existing isobutanol supply agreement to provide Musket with the exclusive right to sell Gevo’s renewable isobutanol within a 300-mile radius of Houston, Texas. This agreement […]
In Ireland, Ethanol Europe released a report showing the relative failure of the advanced biofuels industry to launch in Europe, demonstrating that a reliance on advanced biofuels for the future decarbonization of European transport while leaving behind conventional biofuels already producing fuel with low greenhouse gas levels was a foolhardy move. ePure says that real […]
In Finland, replacing fossil fuels with Neste’s renewable fuels reduced global climate emissions altogether by a staggering 8.3 million metric tons or 8.3 billion kilograms in 2017. The figure equals removal of 3 million passenger cars from the roads for a full year – more than the amount of cars in the city of London, […]
In Australia, data from the national statistics bureau shows that 96% of canola exports in November and December—a total of 450,371 metric tons—were headed to Europe as feedstock for biodiesel. Much of the country’s 1 million ton surplus is expected to head for Europe along with some volumes exported to China. Lower garbanzo prices mean […]
In California, NCM Biotech and Greenbelt Resources Corporation announced they are entering into a Letter of Intent (LOI) to jointly develop and operate a cannabis extraction testing service with facilities in California and Oregon. When operational, the facilities will serve the global medical cannabis market. NCM Biotech has a process, patented in 2016, for extracting […]
In India, the transportation minister is promoting the uptake of biofuel buses not on a trial basis but on a commercial, large-scale basis such as 5,000 buses for Uttar Pradesh, as a way to ensure viability. Some states, such as Karnataka, have rolled out biofuel bus trials only to back away when they didn’t work […]
In Oman, researchers from the Sultan Qaboos University believe the sultanate is ideal for macroalgae production for biofuels in the longer term thanks to a number of suitable wadis. Algae grows naturally in the wadis following rains when nutrients accumulate. By studying the wadis’ different green and blue algae species, they believe some that produce […]
In Washington, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is seeking a workaround with Senate colleagues to move forward with the confirmation of the proposed Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services at the USDA who has been kept from a vote due to a block by Senator Ted Cruz seeking to reform RIN policy […]
By Bob Kodrzycki, PhD, Encompass Biotech LLC, Member, Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Digest This is the eighth in a series of articles prepared by the experts at Lee Enterprises Consulting (LEC) who will be speaking at the ABLC 2018 conference in Washington DC, February 28 to March 2. Definitions are tricky. They tend […]
