Archive for 2020

Great Plains Institute’s Latest Report: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to A Clean Fuels Policy for the Midwest

Great Plains Institute’s Latest Report: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to A Clean Fuels Policy for the Midwest

April 9, 2020 |

The Midwestern Clean Fuels Initiative, facilitated by the Great Plains Institute, is a broad coalition of fuels producers and marketers, nonprofit and research organizations, scientists and engineers, and agriculture and industry stakeholders. The coalition works to create economic benefits for the region through policy, research, and education on the production and use of cleaner fuels.

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BR Distribuidora asking for ANP to reduce biodiesel sales at next auction by at least 25%

BR Distribuidora asking for ANP to reduce biodiesel sales at next auction by at least 25%

April 8, 2020 |

In Brazil, Reuters says BR Distribuidora told the news agency the company has proposed to reduce by a quarter the minimum mandatory percentage of biodiesel withdrawal to be contracted from producers in the next biofuel auction, claiming that it is not possible to predict the consumption of the product in the coming weeks and months […]

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Clariant and CropEnergies team on disinfectant production in Germany

Clariant and CropEnergies team on disinfectant production in Germany

April 8, 2020 |

In Germany, Clariant together with CropEnergies has started monthly production of 2 million liters of disinfectant at Clariant’s facilities in Gendorf, Germany. This disinfectant is then directly or via repacking partners provided to regional hospitals and other vital institutions in Bavaria, who are currently facing limited availability of this critical product during the COVID-19 outbreak. […]

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10th Circuit District Court rejects request for rehearing of SRE case

10th Circuit District Court rejects request for rehearing of SRE case

April 8, 2020 |

In Washington, Reuters reports that the 10th Circuit District Court has rejected the request for a rehearing filed by HollyFrontier and CVR Energy to the court’s January ruling that has turned the Environmental Protection Agency inside out trying to figure out how to change the way it approves small refinery exemptions under the Renewable Fuel […]

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Indian Sugar mills asking for third tender to supply OMCs ethanol

Indian Sugar mills asking for third tender to supply OMCs ethanol

April 8, 2020 |

In India, the Business Standard newspaper reports that with falling fuel demand and therefore ethanol demand due to the lockdown called to slow the spread of COVID-19, sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh want oil marketing companies to call a third ethanol tender after the first two tenders failed to secure sufficient quantities of pre-coronavirus demand. […]

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Ethanol production falls to lowest level since 2009 but stocks build anyway

Ethanol production falls to lowest level since 2009 but stocks build anyway

April 8, 2020 |

In Washington, DTN reports that Energy Information Administration data shows ethanol production fell to its lowest level since April 2009 last week to 672,000 bpd but that was still well above the blending demand of 502,000 bpd, the lowest since May 2008, leading for further buildup of stocks in all five regions. Stocks grew a […]

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Business Finland BioFlex project to explore biomass and waste-plastic fuel production

Business Finland BioFlex project to explore biomass and waste-plastic fuel production

April 8, 2020 |

In Finland, a three-year Business Finland BioFlex project, VTT and partners are exploring how suitable fuel oils made from biomass and waste plastics are for power plants and ship diesel engines. The aim is to determine the most ecologically and economically sustainable way to replace fossil fuels. Internal-combustion engine power plants use natural gas or […]

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University of East Anglia researchers make gene-editing breakthrough to understand ocean microbes

University of East Anglia researchers make gene-editing breakthrough to understand ocean microbes

April 8, 2020 |

In the UK, researchers have made a major breakthrough in developing gene-editing tools to improve our understanding of one of the most important ocean microbes on the planet. The international project, co-led by scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK, unlocks the potential of the largest untapped genetic resource for the […]

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Bipartisan group of 14 Senators asks USDA to allocate CCC funding to biofuel industry

Bipartisan group of 14 Senators asks USDA to allocate CCC funding to biofuel industry

April 8, 2020 |

In Washington, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and 12 of their Senate colleagues today sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) requesting additional funds be allocated to the biofuel industry through the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) during the unprecedented economic circumstances brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

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Biodiesel, Renewable Diesel Industries’ Vision Sees Hope Amongst COVID-19

Biodiesel, Renewable Diesel Industries’ Vision Sees Hope Amongst COVID-19

April 8, 2020 |

By Donnell Rehagen, Chief Executive Officer, National Biodiesel Board Special to The Digest Before the COVID-19 pandemic became the primary focus of our industry, and the world, the National Biodiesel Board and our industry leadership spent much of 2019 assessing our longer-term future. Once our nation gets through the current uncertainty that is ahead of […]

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