Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? Sweet Gazoil (SGO) was founded with the goal of protecting the environment by providing cost-effective technologies to treat mixed […]
The National Farmers Union envisions a world where farm families and their communities are respected, valued and enjoy economic prosperity and social justice and climate is a big part of that. Check out what Roger Johnson, President of National Farmers Union had to say about the union’s work towards climate change policy, how they support […]
In Iowa, the Des Moines Register newspaper reports that the latest casualty of the ongoing war between the biofuels industry and the oil industry is the closure of W2 Fuel’s 10 million gallon per year biodiesel plant in Crawfordsville as well as another plant in Michigan. Iowa’s governor and other Midwest legislators were assured by […]
In Washington, Platts reports that Energy Information Administration data shows ethanol production fell to its lowest level in 3.5 years last week to an average of 943,000 b/d, 60,000 b/d lower than the prior week, a drop of nearly 6%, and nearly 9% lower that during the same week last year. Platts estimates the crush […]
In Italy, Eni has opened the most innovative bio-refinery in Europe at Gela. Launched in August 2019, the plant has a processing capacity of up to 750,000 metric tons a year and will be able to treat increasing quantities of used vegetable oil, animal fat, algae and by-products to produce high-quality biofuels. All the petrochemical […]
In Brazil, Reuters reports the Brazilian Vegetable Oil Industries Association (ABIOVE) says demand for soybean oil for biodiesel is expected to grow by more than 20 percent in 2020 from this year’s forecast to 5 million metric tons thanks to higher blending next year of 12%, set to start in March. The blending mandate increased […]
In Thailand, the Vietnam News Agency reports that the Thai government is looking to boost biodiesel blending to 10% as of January 1, 2020 in an effort to boost palm oil prices that fell to a 20-year low in April and hasn’t recovered very far. The Thai cabinet already approved a $1.93 billion package to […]
In Minnesota, the Crookston Times reports that the ongoing battle in Washington over the Renewable Fuel Standard, demand destruction for biofuels and the future of biofuels in general is trickling down to the local level with claims that the $160 million proposed Epitome Energy soybean crushing and biodiesel project isn’t viable. Controversy over the plant’s […]
In France, a unique new flexible and stretchable device, worn against the skin and capable of producing electrical energy by transforming the compounds present in sweat, was recently developed and patented by CNRS researchers from l’Université Grenoble Alpes and the University of San Diego (U.S.). This cell is already capable of continuously lighting an LED, […]
In Washington, a bipartisan group of 25 members of the U.S. House of Representatives for asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to prospectively restore RFS volumes lost to small refinery exemptions. In a letter to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, the House group also asked the Agency to stop the practice of “rubber-stamping” requests for exemptions, […]
