In New York state, Bloomberg reports that the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York issued subpoenas to Icahn Enterprises as well as CVR Energy while Carl Icahn served as advisor to the president to secure information regarding his activities surrounding the Renewable Fuels Standard. CVR Energy saved about $60 million on […]
In Washington, not to be out done by the oil industry in getting President Trump’s attention via his favorite news channel, Fox, the ethanol industry has jumped in with an ad run on the same channel highlighting video clips of the president as candidate supporting ethanol. The fight between the two lobbies over the RFS […]
In Washington, U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Chris Coons (D-DE), and Representatives Ted Poe (R-TX-02) and Mike Thompson (D-CA-05) re-introduced bipartisan legislation to level the energy playing field by giving investors in a range of clean energy projects access to a decades-old corporate structure whose tax advantage is currently available only to investors in […]
In Washington, D.C., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded the Utah Department of Environmental Quality a $2.3M grant under the National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program to reduce diesel emissions from heavy-duty trucks and school buses based in several counties along the Wasatch Front, an area challenged by levels of particulate matter that exceed federal […]
In Washington, 64 bipartisan Members of the United States House of Representatives, led by Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Steve Womack (R-Ark.), and Jim Costa (D-Calif.), sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt emphasizing the negative impacts of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) on American consumers and the economy and […]
In India, the cabinet approved a 5% increase in ethanol prices to just over 63 cents per liter in order to improve the economic viability for sugar mills the supplying of ethanol to oil marketing companies. The country’s E10 blending mandate has failed to take off due to drought that hit production supplies last year […]
In Washington, a diverse group of biodiesel producers, fuel retailers, and trucking interests sent a letter to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee in support of extending and phasing out the biodiesel blenders’ tax credit, and outlining their opposition to efforts to shift the credit to a producers’ credit, as […]
In Washington, a coalition of mid-sized oil refiners including Valero Energy, Monroe Energy owned by Delta Airlines, and PBF Energy are running a week long ad campaign during Fox & Friends targeted directly as President Trump, slamming him for backing down on proposed changes to the Renewable Fuel Standard. The bluntly-worded ad says, “Donald Trump […]
In Germany, UFOP published a letter expressing its disappointment in the result of the vote in the European Parliament’s Committee on Environment on Monday this week concerning the reform of the biofuel policy for the period from 2020 to 2030 (RED II). UFOP said that as a result of the decision, biofuels made from cultivated […]
In Washington, Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and co-sponsors Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Susan Collins (R-ME), Chris Coons (D-DE), and Al Franken (D-MN) have introduced the Renewable Chemicals Act of 2017 (S.1980) that would create a targeted, short-term tax credit for production of qualifying renewable chemicals from biomass or investment in production facilities. Applicants for the […]
