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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to GreenStar BCS

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to GreenStar BCS

June 27, 2023 |

Green Star BCS provides clients with the technical, market, and economic expertise to thrive as they shift toward a more sustainable economy. We collaborate with clients across the energy and renewable power sectors, providing pragmatic, sensible decarbonization and sustainability solutions to meet their challenging energy transition goals. GreenStar BCS Chief Carbon Technologies Officer Soheil Razjouyan […]

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Cyanobacteria in Sustainable Agriculture 

Cyanobacteria in Sustainable Agriculture 

June 26, 2023 |

By: Dr. Randy Simpson Expert, Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Digest Cyanobacteria are a group of photosynthetic bacteria that can live in diverse environments, such as soil, water, and rocks. Handled properly, they can have several beneficial effects on crop growth, including helping control plant disease, reducing pest damage, increasing crop quality, and improving […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Yield10 Biosciences

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Yield10 Biosciences

June 22, 2023 |

Yield10 is now advancing camelina as a low Carbon Intensity biofuels feedstock crop. Long-term, they are looking at PHA camelina for high value PHA bioplastics. The commercial opportunity in relay cropping is huge too and camelina can help as a replenishable reserve, even in the winter. CEO Olly Peoples gave this update on the company’s […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Global Clean Energy Holdings

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Global Clean Energy Holdings

June 21, 2023 |

Global Clean Energy, a vertically integrated renewable fuels business that is focused on reducing transportation-related carbon emissions sustainably through its proprietary camelina varieties – the only varieties currently qualified for both federal and California standards for low carbon emissions. CEO Richard Palmer gave this comprehensive overview of the company’s march towards scale at ABLC 2023.

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Grassley Condemns “Biden Biofuels Bait-And-Switch”

Grassley Condemns “Biden Biofuels Bait-And-Switch”

June 21, 2023 |

In Washington, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), one of the Senate’s only corn farmers, today criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final rule setting minimum biofuels blending levels for the next three years below current production capabilities. While the plan makes modest increases to blend levels for certain biodiesel products, the overall biofuels volume remains unchanged […]

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The cold shower: EPA finalizes US Renewable Fuel Standard volumes for 2023-25

The cold shower: EPA finalizes US Renewable Fuel Standard volumes for 2023-25

June 21, 2023 |

In Washington, the cause of rapid decarbonization received its annual cold shower from the Environmental Protection Agency. EPA announced a final rule to establish low-carbon renewable fuel volume requirements for 2023–2025, and received low marks from the associations representing heavy-duty fuels. Here’s the Tale of the Tape: What the EPA said This final rule includes […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to ABB

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to ABB

June 20, 2023 |

This is one ABLC slide guide you don’t want to miss! ABB’s John Oyen shares what ABB Energy Industries is all about, highlights  ways developers/producers can improve profitability and much more. ABB is a technology leader in electrification and automation, enabling a more sustainable and resource-efficient future.

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A new hydrogen: from methane, via pyrolysis, without the CO2 release

A new hydrogen: from methane, via pyrolysis, without the CO2 release

June 20, 2023 |

By Chingis Idrissov, Technology Analyst, IDTechEx Digest note. This column from Chingis Idrissov focuses on production of hydrogen from methane, with an underlying assumption that the methane will come from fossil gas reserves. But, not necessarily so. There’s renewable methane, which we would style not so much as classic green hydrogen (made from water splitting), […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Hexas Biomass

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Hexas Biomass

June 19, 2023 |

Hexas Biomass is a biomaterials company focused on the production and use of sustainable plant-based materials to replace wood and petroleum-based feedstocks in multiple applications, including energy, chemicals, packaging, textiles, and structural/non-structural applications. CEO Wendy Owens gave this update on the company;’s promise and progress at ABLC 2023.

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The Aviation Industry’s Quest for Zero Emissions: Challenges and Opportunities

The Aviation Industry’s Quest for Zero Emissions: Challenges and Opportunities

June 19, 2023 |

The aviation sector, as a consumer-facing industry, has long been a high-profile contributor to global carbon emissions. It accounts for around 1 billion tonnes of CO2 per annum or over 2 percent of the world’s entire CO2 emissions. And with the demand for aviation fuel expected to more than double by 2050 compared to pre-COVID […]

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