In California, Extreme Bio-diesel has been selected by a New York warehousing company to acquire all expired virgin oils from all regional warehouse facilities in Southern California. Extreme Biodiesel has already collected several shipments accounting for more than 4,000 gallons of virgin expired oil at an extremely discounted price. Extreme Biodiesel is using the virgin […]
In Kenya, Tana River county counselors have petitioned the National Environmental Management Authority to not revoke a local jatropha project license. The County Council accused NGO Nature Kenya of petitioning NEMA to revoke the license without due cause stating that Nature Kenya has been operating in the area for many years and has done little […]
In Chile, BAL Chile SA has begun farming algae on the island of Chiloé with plans to produce biofuels for industrial use. The company hopes to produce algae at commercial scale in the next five years. BAL has established strategic alliances with DuPont and Statoil for this initiative and has secured financial support from several […]
In Mexico, the country’s largest airline, Aeromexico, has just begun using a 25 percent biofuel mixture on its flights from Mexico City to San Jose, Costa Rica. As part of the “Green Flights” project designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a Boeing 737 will now fly the route using a mixture of 75 percent conventional […]
In West Virginia, Kureha’s Belle Plant held its grand opening on September 26. The facility is dedicated to the production of 8.8 million pounds of polyglycolic acid per year. The plant conducted its initial operation in mid-June 2011 and began commercial production in August. The polymer is marketed under the trade name Kuredux PGA. Its […]
In Washington D.C., the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced plans to grant $80 million this year to 163 companies that produce biofuel from alternative sources such as animal fats and wood chips. The amount of each company’s payment is based on how much biofuel the company produces from sources other than corn. For example, Pennsylvania-based […]
In Washington, D.C., the world’s largest seed company spent $1.71 million in the second quarter of 2011 to lobby the federal government, according to a disclosure report filed with the House clerk’s office by Monsanto Co. The Company lobbied Congress and the U.S. Department of Agriculture over regulations that would affect the distribution of genetically […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, retreated 2.75 percent to 68.23 with a broad renewables reverse. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) lost 2.56 percent to $25.11, while Codexis (CDXS) dropped 7.49 percent to $4.57. Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) jumped 5.46 percent to $10.23. Overall, declines led advances […]
Five university-led consortia receive $15M-$40M grants for diesel, gasoline and renewable jet fuels. In Washington State, US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced five major agricultural research projects today aimed at developing regional, renewable energy markets, generating rural jobs, and decreasing America’s dependence on foreign oil. Altogether, the five-year program will deliver more than $136 million […]
Touting its ultra low-cost cellulosic sugars, Renmatix presses hard on the hype button. But could this re-think of Sriya really have the goods? Yesterday on Twitter, a cryptic but steady stream of messages began to fly in during the afternoon regarding Renmatix, whose story was picked up by Fast Company in a breathless-titled short article, […]
