In California, last week State Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones introduced Senate Bill 2 to repeal the recent Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation passed by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), which is expected to increase gas prices 65 cents per gallon. The bill is coauthored by the entire Senate Republican Caucus. Specifically, SB 2 […]
In Illinois, LanzaTech Global, Inc. and ArcelorMittal S.A. announced that ethanol from ArcelorMittal’s commercial flagship Steelanol facility in Ghent, Belgium, has achieved a production milestone whereby ethanol volumes have ramped to a significant enough level to support large-scale shipping by barge. LanzaTech took title to the first barge shipment earlier this month, and the ethanol […]
In Colorado, Gevo announced that its planned acquisition of the ethanol production plant and carbon capture and sequestration assets of Red Trail Energy, LLC passed an important milestone as the equity holders of Red Trail Energy voted overwhelmingly to approve the transaction. This acquisition will accelerate Gevo’s mission to transform renewable carbon and photosynthetic energy […]
In Latvia, Unified Gas Transmission and Storage System Operator Conexus Baltic Grid AS has signed a contract with Intra-GT SIA for the design and construction of the biomethane injection point “Džūkste”. The total financing of the project, with the EU funds, exceeds EUR 1.5 million. The renewable gas injection pint will be located in Pienava, […]
In Texas, LF Bioenergy announced the expansion of its RNG project footprint with four operating facilities and two under construction across the U.S. The operational RNG projects result in a cumulative environmental benefit equal to reducing 60 million gasoline miles. Farmers face increasing pressure from rising prices on everything from bedding to feed. RNG projects […]
In Washington state, CarbonQuest and Carbfix signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to accelerate emissions reductions in North American “hard-to-abate” facilities by deploying distributed carbon capture and storage (DCCS) solutions. Through the partnership, the two companies will leverage their respective expertise in point-source carbon capture and point-source mineralization to help a variety of distributed medium-scale […]
In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) has announced $52 million in funding for six university and industry projects to advance the production of low carbon intensity, purpose-grown energy crops critical to accelerating a clean energy bioeconomy. These projects will expand a domestic supply chain of alternative carbon sources essential to […]
In Germany, CropEnergies AG, Mannheim, is putting on hold the planned investment in a plant for the production of EnPro high protein animal feed at the production site of its subsidiary Ensus UK Ltd. in Wilton, UK. Currently, CropEnergies is investing in several major projects with high capital requirements. After intensive consideration, this decision was […]
In Denmark, trillions of bacteria work in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, helping produce everything from beer and facial creams to biodiesel and fertilizer. The pharmaceutical industry, in particular, relies heavily on bacteria for producing substances like insulin and penicillin. Harnessing bacteria’s industrial contributions has revolutionized global health, but their work comes at a high […]
In Estonia, the EER news agency reports oil major Orelex has been fined $6.3 million for going beyond the established used cooking oil biofuel blending limit in 2022, which was then discovered during an audit in 2023 by the Environmental Board (Keskkonnaamet). The company plans to appeal because it said it tried throughout 2023 to […]
