In Brussels, the Red Tractor Scheme has finally been approved by the European Commission. This official status will ensure crops with the badge of Red Tractor Assurance can access all European markets without the need for additional audits or paperwork and will prevent the need for multiple schemes for different markets. The Red Tractor Crops and […]
In South Dakota, the Governor’s Office of Economic Development has made available $960,000 in grants to help support installation of blender pumps with $200,000 awarded on a competitive basis while the remaining funds will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. Applications are currently be accepted.
In Washington, Brent Erickson, executive vice president of the Biotechnology Industry Organization’s (BIO) Industrial & Environmental Section, said, “Petroleum refining industry organizations are engaging in a misguided and misleading anti-Renewable Fuel Standard campaign, going so far as to provide factually incorrect information to Congress. “In a letter to House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee leaders, AFPM […]
In Washington, Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Bob Dinneen testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Energy and Power on Tuesday highlighting how the RFS has reduced depending on oil imports and lowered gas prices.
In Washington, the industry is gathering this week at the DOE’s fifth annual BIOMASS meeting at the Washington Convention Center. The DOE team will be live tweeting the conference from the Bioenergy Knowledge Discovery Framework (KDF) Twitter handle (@BioenergyKDF), as well as posting live updates to the KDF Facebook wall, http://www.facebook.com/BioenergyKDF. Attendees and followers are encouraged […]
In Ethiopia, the government says that the country’s ethanol blending policy—at first 5% for the Addis Ababa region, then later boosted to 10% for the region—has saved the country $20.5 million in fuel imports since the policy began in 2008. The country has so far produced 32.86 million liters of ethanol at the Fincha and […]
In Washington, state governors are rallying around an E15 action plan in the state level as Gov. Terry Brandstad (R-Iowa), Gov. Pat Quinn (D-Ill) and Gov. Sam Brownback (R-Kan) sent a letter to the other midwestern governors on the Midwestern Governors Association. The letter calls on the state governments to coordinate their agencies, ensure that […]
In New York, emissions from forest fires and other biomass burning has a greater impact on global warming than previously understood, according to a new study. Carbonaceous aerosol emissions from forest fires and other biomass burning have long been known to include both dark particles that absorb heat, known as black carbon, as well as lighter […]
In New Hampshire, a bill has been proposed in the state legislature that would limit the state’s ability to participate in any Low Carbon Fuel Standards like the one in California by prohibiting participation when there are quotas, caps or mandates on transportation fuels, fuels used for industrial purposes or fuels used for home heating […]
In Washington, in retaliation to the EPA’s cellulosic ethanol quota under the RFS2 where the oil industry has made a fuss over not having sufficient supply access to fulfill blending requirements, Representative Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) has introduced the Phantom Fuel Reform Act (H.R. 6047) that would require the EPA to set quotas based on existing production.
