Today we want to look at a major disruptor working on advanced ingredients and nutraceuticals like DHA — you know, the reason we’re supposed to ingest fish oil at a zillion bucks a bottle, because we need those omega-3s. But fish don’t make them, they just accumulate them — why not get it from the […]
In Washington, U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Under Secretary Donald “DJ” LaVoy and U.S. Department of Energy Under Secretary of Energy Mark W. Menezes today announced a Memorandum of Understanding between the two departments to promote rural energy and the development of technologies that will support and advance rural and agricultural communities and domestic manufacturing. […]
In Michigan, a Bloomfield, Michigan, biodiesel fuel dealer pleaded guilty to filing a false income tax return, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider of the Eastern District of Michigan. According to plea documents, Chandra Yarlagadda, 54, owned and operated Alpha Bioenergy […]
In Washington, the Renewable Fuels Association says newly available court documents assert that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency inappropriately granted Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) compliance exemptions to certain small refineries that did not even qualify for the waivers, and that there was division within the Trump administration about its new approach to small refinery hardship […]
In Belgium, as the EU institutions begin negotiations on a new regulation defining sustainability in green finance, a group of ten associations representing the Europe’s bioenergy, agriculture and forest groups have called for a coherent legislative framework to boost investment in sustainable technologies. “We support the final objective of the sustainable finance regulation: to enable […]
In Washington, Bloomberg reports that even though USDA officials warned against the most recent biofuels proposal agreed on October 1 to make up for small refinery hardship waivers approved by the Environmental Protection Agency, saying that it went against the promise to get biofuel blending about 15 billion gallons, the White House green lighted the […]
In India, the Business Standard newspaper reports that Uttar Pradesh cooperative sugar mills expect to supply an additional 53 million liters of ethanol to oil marketing companies following invest of $22.6 million in fresh production capacity. With the addition of zero-discharge technologies at six existing distilleries in the state, an additional 35 million liters of […]
In California, Platts reports that following force majeure declared last week by NuStar after two of its ethanol tanks burst into flames, potentially as a result of an earthquake earlier in the day, a pair of tankers carrying Brazilian ethanol are waiting in San Francisco Bay to discharge with nowhere to drop their cargo. Although […]
In the UK, researchers from The University of Manchester are using synthetic biology to explore a more efficient way to produce the next generation of bio-based jet fuels – partly made from a type of bacteria that grows in seawater. Scientists have discovered that the bacteria species called Halomonas, which grows in seawater, provides a […]
In Washington, a coalition of renewable fuel and agricultural trade organizations filed a petition Tuesday afternoon with the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, challenging the process by which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) exempted certain unknown small refineries from their respective Renewable Fuel Standard obligations for 2018. The coalition includes […]
