In Denmark, you cannot see them with the naked eye, but most plants emit volatile gases – isoprenoids – into the atmosphere when they breathe and grow. Some plants emit close to nothing; others emit kilograms annually. Isoprenoids contribute immensely to the amounts of hydrocarbons released into the atmosphere, where they can be converted into […]
In Washington, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation passed S. 3734, a bipartisan bill designed to strengthen the national bioeconomy. S. 3734, the Bioeconomy Research and Development Act of 2020, would: Establish an Initiative through the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to advance research and development, advance biomanufacturing, develop the future bioeconomy […]
With some places starting to open up again, maybe you are looking at shopping for clothes – thanks to some quarantine weight gain or weight lost – so let’s talk about some new threads today. What are the latest innovations with apparel materials? We’ve read about mushroom shirts and algae dresses, but here’s a quick summary from […]
In Washington, fifteen Republican senators sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler calling on EPA to grant petitions from a bipartisan group of six state governors to waive the blending obligations for the 2020 compliance year under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). In the letter, the senators urged Wheeler to use […]
In Texas, Primoris Services announced two new industrial awards with a combined value over $62 million. The contracts were secured by Primoris Industrial Constructors, part of the Power, Industrial, and Engineering segment. The first award is for the construction of the outside the battery limits portion of a renewable diesel expansion project in Louisiana. The […]
In Washington, U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that it has published a final rule to expand the production of renewable chemicals and biobased manufactured products. The rule, for the first time, allows applicants for Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Program (9003 Program) loans to submit applications to develop renewable chemical and biobased […]
In Washington, Reuters reports the Environmental Protection Agency is still undecided about what to do with waiver requests from the oil industry as they seek to reduce their biofuel blending obligations. Rather than individual waivers which have been under intense scrutiny, the industry as well as oil state governors and now oil state senators are […]
In Washington, Bloomberg reports that under a draft plan developed by the Environmental Protection Agency, biofuel blending targets would be slightly higher than last year. The agency has come under fire by the biofuel industry and lawmakers from key biofuel states for not boosting the mandate this year to compensate for demand destruction from hardship […]
In Washington, DTN report the Energy Information Administration published data showing the ethanol stocks continue to drop as demand increases while producers slowly ramp up production. Stocks fell to a four-month low last week of 23.6 million gallons, 400,000 gallons fewer than the week prior, with stocks falling in all regions except for the Gulf […]
In Illinois, scientists engineering valuable microbes for renewable fuels and bioproducts have developed a fast, efficient way to identify the most promising varieties. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign developed a novel mass spectrometry-based screening technique to rapidly profile medium-chain fatty acids produced in yeast — part of a larger group of free […]
