In Washington, Biodiesel Magazine is hosting a policy webinar on Dec. 5 to talk about the future of the RFS, state mandates, bioheat and other hot topics relevant to the biodiesel industry. Speakers on the webinar will include the National Biodiesel Board, Nazzaro Group, the Minnesota Dept. of Agriculture and Environmental Defense Fund.
In Washington, the Agriculture Committee has still not reached an agreement on a new farm bill after House Chair Frank Lucas, House Ranking Member Collin Peterson, Senate Chair Debbie Stabenow, and Senate Ranking Member Thad Cochran met several times last week without reaching a compromise. Stabenow and Lucas had both stated that it was important […]
In Iowa, Governor Terry Branstad, Lt. Gov Kim Reynolds, Senator Chuck Grassley, Representative Steve King, and Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey joined the RFS Coalition urging the Obama Administration and the EPA to restore stronger blending levels for 2014 at the “Defend the RFS” event at Lincolnway Energy. Branstad rallied the crowed, reminding attendees […]
In Indonesia, the Indonesian biofuels producers association plans to appeal the anti-dumping duties imposed on its biodiesel imports into Europe via the European Court of Justice and are exploring at complaint at the WTO as well. Argentina has already said it will challenge Spain at the WTO for discriminating against its imports, and will likely […]
In Washington, veterans are entering the fight for the RFS, saying that renewable fuels have helped reduce America’s dependence on oil—money that goes towards supporting the wars that lead to the deaths of thousands of American veterans. The 360,000-strong VoteVets.org has teamed with Americans United for Change to try to fight against what they claim […]
In Washington, The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is offering to sell its recently acquired sugar inventory for use as a feedstock for bio-energy production using the authority of the Feedstock Flexibility Program (FFP). CCC successfully sold 143,143 short tons under its previous FFP tenders. CCC acquired 296,500 short […]
In Washington, the Farm Bill is unlikely to come to the floor by the conference leaders’ deadline at the end of November according to commends from Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA). The Congressman stated that “I don’t know if we will get it before thanksgiving but I think we will get one.” The nutrition title remains […]
In Indonesia, the country’s state-owned oil company Pertamina has changed its pricing formula for buying biodiesel during its most recent tender where it bought 6.6 billion liters of biodiesel during the next two years. For the past three years, the national biodiesel producers association as been working with the government to get the benchmark price […]
In Florida, Rep. Matt Gaetz has filed HM 243 urging the US Congress to repeal the RFS. The legislation is set for hearing during the 2014 regular session but hasn’t yet been assigned to a committee. Such types of legislation have no actual bearing on Congress or federal law but if passed is meant to send a […]
In Malaysia, RHB Research says that the national biodiesel mandates implemented by Malaysia and Indonesia should go a long way towards stabilizing palm oil prices. Malaysia will boost its biodiesel blend to 7% in December from 5% currently while Indonesian state-owned oil company just finished a tender to purchase 6 million metric tons of biodiesel. […]
