In Kansas, Kansas State University civil engineers are developing the right mix to reduce concrete’s carbon footprint and make it stronger. Their innovative ingredient: biofuel byproducts. The researchers are specifically looking at byproducts from production of cellulosic ethanol, which is biofuel produced from inedible material such as wood chips, wheat straw or other agricultural residue. […]
In Oregon, Governor Kate Brown announced and signed a new executive order on climate, setting new science-based greenhouse gas emissions goals and directing state agencies to put new measures into effect to lower the state’s greenhouse gas emissions to meet Oregon’s climate goals. The executive order updates the existing state carbon emissions goals to reflect […]
Commodity Plus Carbon, or CPC can maximize monetization opportunities from the sequestration potential in the agricultural sector. CPC offers synergies between regulated ETS traded carbon credits, voluntary and futures commodity markets and offers a new trading vehicle with the potential to incentivize good agricultural practices and reduced carbon footprints in the global food supply chain. […]
First and foremost, we want to communicate that ABLC 2020 has been postponed until July 8-10, after the Mayor of Washington DC issued a health & safety advisory that we felt obliged to follow, although the advisory warned against the holding of events with 1,000 delegates or more, and ABLC audience is not quite that […]
A stock worth watching is Amyris on heels of their Q4 2019 earnings call. The financial highlights, the latest numbers on their Biossance soon to be billion dollar brand, recent production results like the 10 Q4 products that totaled a product volume of 1,578 tons which is a new quarterly record and a total 2019 product […]
In Germany, a research team from Ruhr-Universität Bochum developed a new method to drive catalytically active enzymes, using a process in which the starting material hydrogen peroxide is supplied to the biocatalysts in a controlled manner using plasma. A buffer layer protects the enzymes themselves from harmful components of the plasma. Using two model enzymes, […]
In Canada, on Friday, Canada’s government approved the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), making it the third and final party to the agreement to do so. A statement from U.S. Grains Council Chairman Darren Armstrong, a farmer from North Carolina, on this milestone said the list of advantages of USMCA for the grains sector is long. Armstrong […]
In Germany, in the past year, Germany exported, but also imported, record high amounts of biodiesel. Whereas Poland was the second most important export destination two years ago, Belgium moved up to that position in 2019. In the calendar year 2019, German foreign trade in biodiesel, both imports and exports, climbed to a record high. […]
In Washington, D.C., ethanol production slowed, declining 3.2% or 35,000 barrels per day (b/d), to 1.044 million b/d—equivalent to 43.85 million gallons daily, according to EIA data issued by the government and analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA). However, the four-week average ethanol production rate increased 0.3% to 1.054 million b/d, equivalent to an […]
In Brazil, Reuters reports that “Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petrobras cut gasoline prices at refineries in the country by almost 10% on Thursday, the first cut since last week’s oil price collapse, a move that could boost sugar production and reduce ethanol output.” The oil company, which has a near refining monopoly in Brazil, reduced […]
