In Hawaii, biofuels have a strong role to play in helping the islands achieve their 100% renewable energy goals, with Molokai aiming for 2020, Lanai for 2030 and Maui for 2040, ahead of the state’s 2045 target. Though the islands are integrating solar and wind power into the electrical supply, generators continue to provide a […]
In Argentina, the country could double its 12% ethanol blending mandate in the next two or three years to 2 billion liters as it looks to further prop up its sugarcane and corn industries while reducing energy imports. With corn production seen up 23% on the year to 37 million metric tons during 2016/17, sourcing […]
In Washington, in a letter sent to White House Counsel Don McGahn Monday, a group of Senators demand to know what role oil refining executive Carl Icahn is playing in President Donald Trump’s White House, how he affected the selection of Scott Pruitt to be Trump’s nominee for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, and to […]
In Washington, Downsizing Government has issued a treatise arguing for the elimination of biofuel blending policies, taking aim at the Renewable Fuel Standard in general. It claims the top-down approach of a mandate rather than voluntary blending that would maximize consumer benefits instead distorts the economy and that Congress should therefore end it. The please […]
In Washington, in a letter to President Donald Trump this week, the U.S. Grains Council (USGC), Renewable Fuels Association and Growth Energy are asking for help “in urgently addressing China’s recent implementation of protectionist trade barriers that are shutting out U.S. exports of ethanol and distillers dried grains (DDGS).” Specifically, the three groups are asking […]
In Washington, the Renewable Fuels Association, Growth Energy, and the US Grains Council have written a joint letter to President Trump asking for the Administration’s assistance in urgently addressing China’s recent implementation of protectionist trade barriers that are shutting out U.S. exports of ethanol and distillers dried grains (DDGS). They say China’s recent actions are […]
In Washington, Warren Buffett is going head-to-head with Carl Icahn over the future of the Renewable Fuel Standard. The two billionaires are on opposite ends of the policy, with Buffett’s BNSF railroad heavily invested in transport of ethanol while Icahn has been calling for changes to the RFS due to compliance costs for its independent […]
In China, the “number one document,” a key rural policy document, was released late on Sunday indicating the government still aims to cut down around 20 million metric tons of poor quality corn stocks for use in ethanol and bioplastic, a move that saw corn futures prices on the Dalian Commodity Exchange soar to 18-month […]
In Switzerland, India has filed a complaint against the United States at the World Trade Organization complaining of tens of billions of dollars in illegal subsidies for the renewable energy industries in in Washington, California, Montana, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Michigan, Delaware and Minnesota. Included in the list is Montana’s policy promoting the use of ethanol. The […]
In Germany, a research team led by Professor Almut Arneth at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology concluded that “CO2 emissions caused by changes of land use may possibly be higher than assumed so far.” The work presented in Nature Geoscience for the first time considers processes, such as slash-and–burn agriculture or different ways of managing […]
