By Tony Cartolano, Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Daily Digest In 2021, the US Department of Energy announced its Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge.[1] The intent was to supply at least three billion gallons of SAF per year by 2030 and to produce sufficient SAF to meet 100% of aviation fuel demand by 2050 […]
Last week on the main stage at the G20 Heads of State meetings in New Delhi, there was a photo call with Indian prime minister Modi, Brazil’s president Lula da Silva, and US President Joe Biden, among many other heads of state, celebrating the foundation of the Global Biofuels Alliance. It was certainly the highest […]
By CJ Evans, Managing Director, American Diversified Enterprises, Co-Founder, Alternative Fuels & Chemicals coalition Special to The Daily Digest What Can You Do to Expand Access to Development Capital? A lot. It is neither too late nor too early to begin advocating for federal financing to expedite the development and deployment of projects that will […]
By CJ Evans, Managing Director, American Diversified Enterprises, Co-Founder, Alternative Fuels & Chemicals coalition Special to The Daily Digest There’s good news and bad news about the climate crisis. The good news is that virtually every technology that can mitigate the climate crisis and avert its worst impacts already is under development or being commercialized. […]
By David Peterson, Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Daily Digest When an industry faces significant challenges, which all industries will at some time, quite often the responses not only influence short-term achievements but may also influence the trajectory of the industry, and quite possibly the very survival of the industry. The pulp and paper […]
You may recall, about the time the Digest was founded back in 2007, a multi-national product scandal that erupted when it turned out that a shipment of colorful set of children’s’ design beads, called Bindeez, was improperly made from 1,4 butanediol instead of the non-toxic plasticizer known as 1,5 pentanediol. Sounds like a harmless swap? […]
This past spring on the ABLC stage, a parade of senior US government officials — led by Arati Prabhakar, Science Advisor to the President, and including representatives from USDA, DOE, Defense, Commerce, the National Institute of Health and the National Science Foundation — unveiled the Biden Administration’s Bold Goals for the deployment of the bioeconomy […]
From Illinois comes news that Syngenta Seeds and Sustainable Oils have inked a deal to sell Camelina seed – an ultra-low carbon oilseed crop that can be used as feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel and renewable fuels, and an ingredient for sustainable animal feed. The Structure Camelina seed will be sold through Syngenta’s AgriPro® dealer […]
By James Cogan EU Government Affairs, Industry & Policy Director, ClonBio Special to The Digest In an amazing turn of events, on August 16 the European Commission launched an investigation[1] into possible large scale violations in the used cooking oil, palm oil and biodiesel supply chains from South East Asia to Europe. The amounts are […]
Back when, we observed in The Digest: “The predictable result of a tsunami of new companies formed and no new manufacturing at scale built? The fermentation Squeeze.” It arrived, and it’s been rough. Good news has arrived from upstate New York that LiDestri Foods and Fermentum, Inc.have revealed a joint venture and a 500,000 liter […]
