In Canada, Saskatchewan Government Insurance says it has no experience in on-farm biodiesel production and therefore won’t insure any farms that produce biodiesel, even—or especially—for their own use. Those who have been red-flagged by the government-owned insurer for potentially or actually producing biodiesel could find it harder to get better quotes for insurance elsewhere. SGI […]
In Iowa, a new report on the RIN market asserts that the system is working effectively and as intended in tracking compliance with the RFS. The research, performed at the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University, discovered that a $325 million investment in E85 infrastructure would reduce compliance costs by $1.75 […]
In Spain, the government has published the biodiesel supply quotas for the next two years, quotas that don’t included non-European producers despite the expectation that they must import according to WTO rules. Of the 42 installations that received quotas, 27 are Spanish, five are Italian, five are German, two are British, and one each from […]
In Iowa, governor Terry Branstad has been lobbying the White House and other top level officials including the Secretary of Agriculture and the EPA Administrator hard in an effort to protect the RFS for 2014. He believes that the federal government needs to stand up against the oil lobby and protect the industry that is […]
In Washington, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), Growth Energy, and the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) filed a motion in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to intervene in support of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) 2013 final rule, which is currently being challenged by Monroe Energy, […]
In California, the state’s Air Resources Board has filed a response to petitions filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th circuit in early October seeking a hearing regarding a September ruling that said the state’s Low Carbon Fuels Standard does not violate interstate commerce laws. CARB says that the LCFS does not […]
In Washington, Don Marino of the Louisiana Agri-Radio network reports: “American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman says the first formal conference committee talks on the farm bill has renewed his group’s optimism that we are nearing the end of a three-plus year trek. Stallman notes Farm Bureau has two overarching goals with the conference. […]
In Washington, Renewable Fuels Association CEO Bob Dinneen issued a scathing critique of legislation drafted by Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) that would eliminate the conventional ethanol portion of the Renewable Fuel Standard. “This legislation is monumentally stupid,” said Dinneen. “We all understand that Senator Coburn just wants a world free of […]
In Washington, the last two weeks have seen a frenzy of lobbying efforts by both biofuel producers and oil industry to ensure the EPA gets the RFS for 2014 “right.”. Reuters says that since the government reopened on Oct. 21 that there have been 17 meetings held at the White House over the issue with […]
In Brazil, the energy minister has sent a request to the president to boost biodiesel blending to 7%, with 10% expected for 2020. Blending is currently at 5%. Already 5% was implemented in 2010, ahead of the planned 2013 implementation date, after B2 was successfully brought in during 2012. Industry has already been asking for […]
