(NewsWire)  Enerkem Inc., a leading waste-to-biofuels company, today held a groundbreaking ceremony to signify the start of construction of its municipal waste-to-biofuels facility with its partners, the City of Edmonton and the Government of Alberta. …

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)   …We see the battle over rural development flashing at other points around the globe, but nowhere so starkly do we have a choice between the War on Poverty and the War …

(The Dispatch)   …KiOR of Houston, Texas, plans to locate three facilities in Mississippi, the first of which will be in Columbus on the southern fifth of The Island, at the Columbus-Lowndes Port’s east bank. …Additional …

(Blue Fire Renewables)  Name Change Designed to Better Reflect Its Fuel and Energy Production Capabilities
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc., a company focused on changing the world’s transportation fuel paradigm through the production of renewable fuels from non-food …

by Brent Erickson (BIO/New York Times) Letter to Editor:  The refundable investment tax credit for wind, solar and geothermal energy proved the right policy at the right time to mobilize investment. …Parity in tax policies …

(Heinrich Böll Stiftung North America)   In cooperation with 25x’25, the Heinrich Böll Stiftung North America hosted a transatlantic roundtable discussion on its new report Beyond Biofuels: Renewable Energy Opportunities for U.S. Farmers.
As farmers struggle with …

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  …“Iowa is rapidly becoming the development capital of the nation for the replacement of petroleum-based chemicals with bio-based chemicals,” according to a press release from the Iowa Department of …

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, three ethanol industry groups have asked that legislators keep biofuels in mind. “It is likely that the Senate will take …

(Meat Trade News Daily)  BIOFUEL producers want the Government to protect jobs by prioritising home-produced fuels over exports under its new green fuel usage scheme.
The IFA is enraged that the new Biofuels Obligation Scheme (BOS) …

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Washington, the USDA released its highly-anticipated “Regional Roadmap to Meeting the Biofuels Goals of the Renewable Fuels Standard by 2022.”…
USDA identified dedicated energy crops, primarily switchgrass, as the practical …

by Markus Schmidt  (Progress-Index)  The official opening of the Osage Appomattox Bio Energy plant has been pushed back to at least October because of construction delays due to inclement weather.
“Our grand opening got put behind because …

(EERE)  ZeaChem, Inc. held a groundbreaking ceremony on June 2 for a new cellulosic ethanol biorefinery in Boardman, Oregon. Cellulosic ethanol is ethanol produced from non-edible biomass sources, such as agricultural residues, trees, or grasses. The …

(Prairie Star)  Editorial     Age and experience has its benefits. Many of us involved in agriculture have witnessed past oil spills and the devastation they cause and leave behind. Another result is that citizens become more …

(Evening Gazette)  An advanced bioethanol from waste plant, set to be developed on Teesside, has received a multi-million pound boost.
INEOS Bio has been awarded a £7.3m grant from regional development agency One North East and …

(Tampa Bay Online)   Low carbon ethanol and renewable power produced from Florida grown sugar – biomass crops can help displace off-shore drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico and contribute to energy independence, according to …

by Reid Wright (Currrent-Argus, CEHMM)  It takes hundreds of thousands of years for fossil organisms beneath the earth’s crust to simmer into crude petroleum. It takes a single day to make 1,000 gallons of crude …

by Martha Baskin (Seattle Post Globe)     At a time when the US biodiesel industry has been in turmoil – faulted for where it sources raw materials or feedstock – a small producer in Seattle has …

by Andrew Jenner (Lancaster Farming)  A new ethanol refinery in central Virginia, on schedule to begin production this summer, could create a large new market for winter barley — providing farmers with new economic opportunity and …

by David Schwartz  (Algae Industry Magazine)  Seven years ago two former college roommates set up shop in a Palo Alto garage, with the mission of becoming the first company to develop commercial algae-based fuel. They built …

by Jeff Montgomery (The News Journal, DelawareOnline)  A refining industry leader whose company plans to reopen the Delaware City Refinery said today that the new owners hope to expand into renewable fuels production at the …

by Mary Nichols (California Air Resources Board, Sustainable Industries) When California Gov. Schwarzenegger cut the ribbon at the opening of the world’s first bio-butanol plant earlier this year, he credited California’s climate action law Assembly …

by Bryn Weese (Toronto Sun)  Producing renewable fuels – gas from alcohol and diesel from animal fat and plant oils – is a $2.2 billion industry in Canada, according to a new study.
Gordon Quaiattini, the president …

by Brent Erikson (BIO and RenewableEnergyWorld.com)  …Too often, though, resulting jobs are being created overseas, as other countries invest in green technology deployment. As a result, the opportunity to improve our economic competitiveness is lost. …

by Joanne Ivancic (Advanced Biofuels USA)  From time to time, you hear people complain that you can’t make money off of recycling.  Dynamic Fuels gives the lie to that statement.  Not only has it already …

(Environmental and Energy Study Institute)  …The purpose of this project was to determine what incentives best support the commercialization of environmentally sustainable, low carbon, renewable biofuel technologies, to identify ways federal and state incentives can …

by Jake Caldwell (Center for American Progress)  …There is no question that the United States must reduce its dependence on oil. One-fifth of the oil consumed in the United States is imported from nations that …

(US Department of Energy)  More than 600 attendees were able to discuss some of the most pressing issues in the biomass community as well as recent accomplishments and the challenges that lie ahead. We were …

by Kathrine Schmidt  (dailycomet.com)  A businessman from New Iberia is starting a national website that aims to match renewable-energy investors with local landowners and farmers.
Kevin Caffery believes the state of the ethanol industry, which makes …

by Ken Anderson   (Brownfield Ag News)  …IRFA managing director Lucy Norton says E85 is currently running about 90 cents less than E10 gasoline in Iowa.  Even factoring in a 15 percent decrease in fuel economy, …

(POET)  Technology ready, CEO says, but loan guarantee, policy stability and market access still needed to achieve vision.
POET plans to have a hand in producing 3.5 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year by 2022, …

Those interested in the Commonwealth’s developing biofuels and bioproducts industry are invited to participate in the Second Annual Conference on Cellulosic Biofuels this April 30th. The conference is hosted by The Institute for Massachusetts Biofuels …

(PSFK Conference New York)  Following Haiti’s devastating earthquake, new methodologies for organic and economic growth quickly began to sprout. Supported by American bio-diesel company, Sirona Fuels and the Sirona Cares Foundation, Haitian farmers began working …

(Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News)  Funding the existing cellulosic biofuel reverse auction program is a targeted, affordable way to assist pioneer cellulosic biofuel producers in the United States. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) released a March …

(AllAfrica.com)  Sun Biofuels, a British firm that has invested in jatropha plantations in Tanzania, envisages offering full time employment to 1,500 Tanzanians in its jatropha biofuel project at Kisarawe.
Of the 1,500 people, 400 are already …

by Richard Johnson (GlobeGazette.com)  …Mt. Valley will use all types of feed stock — grease, soy, sunflower seeds — in a closed-loop, emissions-free facility.
It will be able to produce 3 million gallons of biodiesel fuel …

by Leah Beth Ward (YakimaHerald.com)  The parent company of the AB Foods-Washington Beef processing plant in Toppenish has won $2 million in grants and loans to create a biofuels company that will transform waste into …

With the theme of “Innovation and Application”, this year’s conference will focus on more than twenty areas of green chemistry and green engineering including:

Biofuels

Environmental health sciences

Biomimicry

International activities

Education

Pharmaceuticals

Energy

Sustainable design concepts

Entrepreneurship

Supply chain management

 
On Monday evening, June 21, …

by Eric Petermann (The Journal-Standard)  Furst-McNess has started a new business that markets a by-product of ethanol production, dry distillers’ grain, for use as a feed supplement for livestock, and has already established a relationship …

Joined by advocates of America’s renewable fuels industry, Congressman Earl Pomeroy (D-ND)  and Congressman John Shimkus (R-IL) unveiled legislation that would extend tax incentives that are critical to the nation’s ethanol industry and the preservation of …

SG Biofuels, a sustainable plant oil company specializing in the development of Jatropha as a low-cost, sustainable source of oil, today announced it has developed the first large-scale Jatropha community-farming initiative in Central America and …

by Mutale Kapekele (The Post Online)  The government should set up a biofuels fund, Biofuels Association of Zambia (BAZ) chairperson Professor Thomson Sinkala has advised. …“Biofuels is a turnkey industry for Zambia. We must go …

Federal tax policies should incentivize commercial deployment of advanced industrial biotechnologies, which can create jobs, reduce reliance on petroleum, and achieve greenhouse gas reductions. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today released a white paper on …

by Per Dahlen (Portelet Asia and Biofuels Digest)  “Saudi Arabia is the largest crude oil producer in the world and produces some 11 million barrels per day. Southeast Asia has the potential of producing 14 million …

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) BIO exec VP Brent Erickson ruefully noted in a conference with reporters that the biofuels industry was “very disappointed in the loan guarantee program. Biomass was mixed in with wind …

by Ryan Howard  (Fergus Falls Daily Journal) …(F)rom North Dakota State University, Dr. F. Larry Leistritz, a professor of agribusiness and applied economics, and Nancy Hodur, a research scientist in the same department, created a …

(DTN Ethanol Center)  President Barack Obama will continue championing biofuels as a job creator, said Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack when he spoke to members of the Governors’ Biofuels Coalition on Monday. Vilsack is hopeful …

(TheBioenergySite)   Daimler AG has started a new project for the cultivation of the biodiesel raw material jatropha in the south of India and the seedlings for the first 100 hectares have been planted.
 
The company …

The United States can lead the world in deploying advanced biotechnology for biofuels and create thousands of new jobs by implementing policies to support the emerging industry. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today applauded President …

by Robert Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA)  The FY 2011 US Budget request is so long, cumbersome and detailed, that we’ve read it and pulled out some salient points related to biofuels so you don’t have …

Homegrown energy could reduce millions of pounds of nutrients from entering the Chesapeake Bay’s streams, creeks and rivers and create more than 18,000 jobs in the region, according to a new report released by the …