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EPA issues temporary emergency fuel waiver for E15 sales

EPA issues temporary emergency fuel waiver for E15 sales

May 1, 2022 |

In Washington, D.C., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing an emergency fuel waiver to allow E15 gasoline to be sold during the summer driving season. This action will increase fuel supply and provide consumers more choices at the pump. The waiver is a critical step to implement President Biden’s announcement that he is […]

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Researchers contradict hit piece on ethanol’s environmental impacts

Researchers contradict hit piece on ethanol’s environmental impacts

May 1, 2022 |

In Washington, D.C., a new assessment published by experts from the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, Purdue University, and the University of Illinois system found major flaws in a recent paper that made unfounded allegations about the greenhouse gas benefits of ethanol compared to gasoline. Responding to the report Environmental Outcomes of the US […]

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Commercial Availability! Oberon Fuels Drives Down Emissions from Propane with New rDME/Propane Blend

Commercial Availability! Oberon Fuels Drives Down Emissions from Propane with New rDME/Propane Blend

May 1, 2022 |

Commercialization – it’s the ultimate goal, isn’t it? Well, news just in from California that Oberon Fuels announced commercial availability of a new approach to drive down emissions across the propane industry: a blend of propane and Oberon’s renewable DME (dimethyl ether) and that Suburban Propane is the first to offer commercial sales of the […]

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The “green crude” SAF alternative: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Alder Fuels

The “green crude” SAF alternative: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Alder Fuels

May 1, 2022 |

Alder Fuels’ Chief Technology Officer, Derek Vardon, shared this illuminating slide guide at ABLC highlighting how they are seeing a future of gathering energy instead of drilling for it and how the solution for sustainable fuel is a load of rubbish – literally forest and agricultural residents and waste. Find out what the economies-of-scale savings […]

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Floating Fungi buoys, bioplastic LP records, space bricks, Wilson tennis rackets, Saucony sneakers and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of April 28th

Floating Fungi buoys, bioplastic LP records, space bricks, Wilson tennis rackets, Saucony sneakers and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of April 28th

April 27, 2022 |

From sports enthusiasts going more biobased in their gear like Wilson tennis rackets and Saucony sneakers made from pineapple leather to groovy biobased LP records for music fans, it’s been a fun week with bioeconomy innovations. In today’s Digest, from sporty and groovy biobased ways to floating fungi in the form of mycelium buoys, shrimp […]

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World Energy Secures Permits; Will Completely Convert Its Southern Calif. Refinery to Create North America’s Largest SAF Hub

World Energy Secures Permits; Will Completely Convert Its Southern Calif. Refinery to Create North America’s Largest SAF Hub

April 24, 2022 |

In a sweet SAF switcheroo, huge news arrived from California-based World Energy, a carbon-net-zero solutions provider, that it secured the critical permits required to completely convert and increase output by 700 percent at its Southern California renewable fuels production facility, the world’s first and North America’s only commercial-scale Sustainable Aviation Fuel production site. World Energy […]

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EPA proposes canola oil as advanced biofuel feedstock, public comment open until May 18

EPA proposes canola oil as advanced biofuel feedstock, public comment open until May 18

April 24, 2022 |

In Washington, D.C., the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to approve Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) pathways for certain biofuels that are produced from canola/rapeseed oil and is providing an opportunity for comment on the Agency’s lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) analysis of these pathways until May 18th. With the approval, these fuel pathways would be eligible […]

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Angel Yeast ramps up sustainability efforts in yeast for ethanol fuel production

Angel Yeast ramps up sustainability efforts in yeast for ethanol fuel production

April 24, 2022 |

In China, Angel Yeast, a major yeast supplier and technology provider of ethanol fuel production, shared plans to make more concrete moves to drive sustainable development with the aim to use tech innovation to have a clean, pollution-free and environmentally friendly manufacturing process for producing its yeast. To achieve this, Angel Yeast poured 475 million […]

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries signs MOU with Infinium for CO2, hydrogen fuel tech

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries signs MOU with Infinium for CO2, hydrogen fuel tech

April 24, 2022 |

In Japan, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. signed a Memorandum of Understanding with California-based Infinium, which has proprietary technology that converts carbon dioxide and hydrogen into ultra-low carbon fuels—known as Electrofuels—for use in today’s planes, ships and truck fleets. The agreement, which builds on MHI’s 2021 investment in Infinium, will focus on exploring the deployment of […]

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Ethanol production down 4.8% over previous week, but 4.7% above 5-year week average

Ethanol production down 4.8% over previous week, but 4.7% above 5-year week average

April 24, 2022 |

In Washington, D.C., ethanol production dropped by 48,000 barrels per day (b/d), or 4.8%, to 947,000 b/d, equivalent to 39.77 million gallons daily and the lowest volume since September 2021, according to EIA data analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association. Production was 0.6% more than the same week last year and 4.7% above the five-year […]

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