In the UK, Business Green reports that Heathrow Airport’s CEO believes that the aviation industry should have first dibs on limited biofuel resources due to the limited decarbonization options for airlines compared to other types of heavy transport who have more possibilities such as electric and hydrogen. The UK’s airline industry has teamed with supply […]
In Canada, Reuters reports domestic oil refiners are pushing back against plans to decarbonize transportation with the proposed low carbon fuel standard while US refiners who are investing heavily in renewable diesel transitions are looking at opportunities north of the border. Canada’s Suncor Energy had previously announced a project to produce renewable diesel before the […]
In Germany, peatlands with their huge diversity of peat moss species store about 30 percent of the earth’s soil carbon. This means they store roughly twice as much carbon as all the world’s forests combined. However, peat harvesting and climate change are threatening these long-term carbon stores because there is not enough founder material for […]
In Washington, the Biogenic CO2 Coalition released a new economic impact analysis in support of its petition for a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule that biogenic carbon emissions from agricultural crops are de minimis and should not be regulated by the same standards as fossil fuels. The report demonstrates the significant economic benefit of […]
By David B. Fournier, Partner and Firmwide Chair of the Patent Prosecution and Portfolio Counseling Practice at Perkins Coie LLC and Linda Falcon, Associate attorney at Perkins Coie LLC Special to The Digest The global biofuels market size is in excess of $100 billion and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate […]
Addressing today’s problems like our huge, linear consumption of carbon, our fossil-based carbon emissions, deforestation, land use, waste generation, could seem overwhelming, but not for Genomatica. Find out how Genomatica is tackling these global issues in this ABLC Digital slide guide from Christophe Schilling, CEO and Co-founder of Genomatica, which covers all you need to know about […]
by Wayne Lee, CEO, Lee Enterprises Consulting Editor’s note to readers: Lee Enterprises Consulting celebrates its 25th anniversary on October 4th — having grown from a boutique biodiesel consulting firm to the world’s largest bioeconomy consulting collective. Today, the bioeconomy is a worldwide business encompassing fuels, advanced agriculture, renewable chemicals, vegan foods, nutraceuticals, cannabis, and lots […]
In Idaho, new research supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office from the Feedstock Conversion Interface Consortium suggests that understanding the true complexity of biomass variability involves factors that impact biomass quality from harvest through conversion. They looked at corn stover, ash content, storage, and […]
In Washington, D.C., the House of Representatives passed another COVID economic relief package, the HEROES Act II, which provides for $2.2 trillion in coronavirus relief and includes an important provision for the renewable fuels industry. If it were to become law, the Renewable Fuel Reimbursement Program provision would provide a 45-cent-per-gallon payment for qualified fuel […]
In Washington, D.C., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced $594,424 in funding for eight undergraduate and graduate student teams from colleges and universities across the country through EPA’s People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) grant program, including research on developing a more sustainable concrete made from hemp pulp and controlling algal blooms. The P3 program […]
