Category: Top Stories

Hagel resigns as US Defense Secretary

Hagel resigns as US Defense Secretary

November 24, 2014 |

Who’s on the short list to succeed the embattled Nebraska Republican, and what does that mean for Advanced Biofuels? In Washington, US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel resigned this morning, describing his tenure as “the greatest privilege of my life”, while President Barack Obama did not indicate a prospective nominee as Hagel’s successor. Names that […]

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The Advanced Bioeconomy Dashboard for 11/24/14: equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data

The Advanced Bioeconomy Dashboard for 11/24/14: equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data

November 23, 2014 |

The Digest’s Dashboard is a convenient “news you can use” 5-Minute summary of current markets including key commodity prices, relevant futures, bioenergy-related stocks, and historical equities data. Latest prices – key commodities. Most recent commodity closing prices, and price changes, for NYMEX’s crude oil, Brent Crude, Ultra-Low Sulphur Diesel, Natural Gas, RBOB gasoline, and Ethylene; ethanol […]

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The 2014 RFS Rule Left Out in the Cold

The 2014 RFS Rule Left Out in the Cold

November 23, 2014 |

By Brent Erickson, Executive VP, BIO; Head, Industrial & Environmental Section EPA’s November surprise is as big a shock to the system as this year’s early arrival of cold weather. The decision not to finalize a 2014 rule for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) merely compounds the damage done to the advanced biofuel industry by […]

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5 Minutes with Novozymes Americas president Adam Monroe on the EPA and the Renewable Fuel Standard

5 Minutes with Novozymes Americas president Adam Monroe on the EPA and the Renewable Fuel Standard

November 23, 2014 |

We look at EPA delays on RFS, the consequences, the hoped-for silver lining, fueling infrastructure at the heart of the dispute, and the RFS’ strategic intent. Have no doubt about it, the troubles with the United States’ Renewable Fuel Standard has very little to do with carbon, or energy security, or mandates, or renewable fuel […]

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EPA abandons RFS rulemaking for 2014

EPA abandons RFS rulemaking for 2014

November 21, 2014 |

In Washington, the U.S. EPA announced it is delaying finalization of the long-awaited 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard Renewable Volume Obligations until 2015. The proposed 2014 rule ran into a steamroller of opposition from renewable fuel groups, who said the proposed rule substantially cutting biofuels targets “pulled the rug” from underneath billions of dollars investment made […]

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Shell: expects to be producing advanced biofuels at scale, in US, by end of decade

Shell: expects to be producing advanced biofuels at scale, in US, by end of decade

November 20, 2014 |

Shell VP Matthew Tipper, at ABLCNext: “We will likely begin manufacture in the southeast United States. We plan to be operational by late this decade. “We believe our best bet is woody biomass and energy crops as feedstocks. We plan to do this with a scale-up of smaller plants with widespread feedstock availability.” “The RFS […]

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Righteous Heat: 10 hot slides from ABLC Next do the show-and-tell

Righteous Heat: 10 hot slides from ABLC Next do the show-and-tell

November 19, 2014 |

10 hot companies, 10 hot slides explaining where they are, what they’re up to, and where they are going, and when and how and why. Here are new slides from the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference – ABLC Next 2014, as presented in San Francisco. We found these super-hot because they essayed three topics very much on […]

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Amyris, late for its date, but a date with destiny nonetheless

Amyris, late for its date, but a date with destiny nonetheless

November 18, 2014 |

Perky quarterly results prompt a look at the Farnesane Kings, dismissed by the critics some time ago, but lately continuing a big comeback. We have become so accustomed to receiving obituaries of Amyris that recently I was inspired to re-read the Devotions of John Donne to discover if, in fact, he wrote, “Send not to know for […]

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“What about that, er, cellulosic feedstock?”  Pacific Ag CEO Bill Levy on the where, when and how

“What about that, er, cellulosic feedstock?” Pacific Ag CEO Bill Levy on the where, when and how

November 18, 2014 |

Feedstock. Now that cellulosic ethanol has reached scale, it has replaced Motherhood and Apple Pie as staple faves for industry chat. Meanwhile, Pacific Ag has been rolling up the acres, getting it done. How’s it working, where are the challenges, how is energy transformation happening from the stalk on up. Pacific Ag CEO Bill Levy […]

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The Advanced Bioeconomy Dashboard for 11/17/14: equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data

The Advanced Bioeconomy Dashboard for 11/17/14: equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data

November 15, 2014 |

The Digest’s Dashboard is a convenient “news you can use” 5-Minute summary of current markets including key commodity prices, relevant futures, bioenergy-related stocks, and historical equities data. Latest prices – key commodities. Most recent commodity closing prices, and price changes, for NYMEX’s crude oil, Brent Crude, Ultra-Low Sulphur Diesel, Natural Gas, RBOB gasoline, and Ethylene; ethanol […]

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