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2018 Farm Bill Helps Rural America Become More Resilient: Rural Economies Crucial to Combating Climate Change

(Environmental and Energy Study Institute) The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) commends the Farm Bill conferees and the House and Senate Agriculture Committees for their tireless commitment to produce a Farm Bill, the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, this year. In a year when farmers, ranchers, and rural communities are struggling, and the agricultural economy is down nearly 50 percent compared to 2014, finalizing the Farm Bill is more important than ever.

2018 Farm Bill programs – including conservation, energy and rural lending programs – are already helping rural America become more resilient to a changing climate. Reauthorizing important programs for energy efficiency, renewable energy, and bio-based alternatives to petroleum-based products helps create stability for rural communities and producers as well as offering important climate solutions. New areas included in the 2018 Farm Bill, such as industrial hemp cultivation and soil health pilot programs, will continue to help diversify and create greater resilience in rural communities.

However, we are missing opportunities to improve resilience in rural communities, farms, and forests. According to EESI Policy Associate Jessie Stolark, “Whether it’s producing a greater variety of renewable and bio-based products from forestry residues and agricultural resources, helping farmers and rural communities adapt to climate, or further supporting energy efficiency programs that help rural residents save energy and money, the Farm Bill could be doing even more to deliver economic development, climate adaptation and mitigation tools to rural America. We only get a chance to pass a Farm Bill every four years. The last four have shown us that climate change impacts are ‘here and now.’ Agriculture and forestry can be a critical part of the solution.”

Just last month, the Trump Administration released the 4th National Climate Assessment, which warns that “climate change presents numerous challenges to sustaining and enhancing crop productivity, livestock health, and the economic vitality of rural communities.” The report contains the strongest warnings about the impacts of climate change ever pronounced by the U.S. federal government, and suggests urgent action is needed.

In the 2018 Farm Bill, the Energy Title (IX) continues mandatory funding for a number of important programs that help diversify the agricultural and forestry economies and grow the number of commercially viable bio-based alternatives to petroleum-based fuels, chemicals, plastics, and other products. The bill contains significant mandatory funding for the Renewable Energy for America Program (REAP), an incredibly popular program that helps install renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies on farms, ranches and in rural businesses, and which is always oversubscribed.

EESI is disappointed at the elimination of mandatory funding for the Biomass Crop Assistance Program(BCAP) and the Biomass Research and Development Program (BRDI). Both programs are crucial to diversifying and growing the bio-based economy, and should be expanded.

EESI was pleased to see the inclusion of the Timber Innovation Act, which will help drive markets for mass timber, a sustainable long-lived wood building material that could turn our building sector from a carbon source to a carbon sink—and provide numerous other benefits as well.

The bill also reauthorizes the Rural Energy Savings Program (RESP), providing funding at $75 million per year over five years. RESP provides zero-percent loans to rural electric cooperatives and other rural electric utilities for the purpose of relending the funds to utility members/customers for energy improvements. These can include energy efficiency upgrades, beneficial electrification projects, customer-owned renewable energy, energy storage, and other measures that are projected to lower the participating member-customer’s costs over time. RESP supports “on-bill financing” programs, in which the energy upgrade loans are repaid through the beneficiary’s electric bills. EESI’s On-Bill Financing Project provides technical assistance to co-ops and public utilities seeking to tap into RESP funds for on-bill financing initiatives.

EESI looks forward to working with the new Congress and stakeholders to continue improving the resilience of rural economies in the United States. According to (Jessie) Stolark, “The Farm Bill is our best vehicle for addressing climate change in these sectors, and we should look forward to further incorporating climate adaptation, resilience, and mitigation throughout, whether it’s through research and development, the conservation title, or even a climate title.” READ MORE

Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (Farm Bill)

Senate passes 2018 Farm Bill (Biomass Magazine)

Farm bill headed to Trump after landslide House approval (Politico)

Congress passes $867 billion Farm Bill (Biodiesel Magazine)

2018 Farm Bill And Organics Recycling/Congress’s Conference Report Solidifies Farm Bill Support for Major Food Waste Reduction Measures (Harvard University Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation)

New Year, New Farm Bill: BIO Celebrates Legislation’s Role in Strengthening America’s Bio-based Economy (Biotechnology Innovation Organization/Biofuels Digest)

Excerpt from Biodiesel Magazine: A copy of the conference report released Dec. 10 indicates the bill includes reauthorizes and provides funding for several Energy Title programs, including the Biobased Markets Program, the Biorefinery Assistance Program, the Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels, the Biodiesel Fuel Education Program, the Rural Energy for America Program, the Feedstock Flexibility Program, and the Biomass Crop Assistance Program. The Repowering Assistance Program is repealed.

The bill also establishes an Interagency Biogas Opportunities Task Force to coordinate policies and programs to accelerate biogas research and investment in biogas systems, and a new Carbon Utilization and Biogas Education Program to provide grants to eligible entities for educating the public and biogas producers about the benefits and opportunities biogas offers to rural businesses, communities and utilities.

In addition, the bill changes the name of the Community Wood Energy Program to the Community Wood Energy and Wood Innovation Program and relocates the program under the bill’s Forestry title. READ MORE

Excerpt from Biotechnology Innovation Organization/Biofuels Digest: Contrary to some beliefs, the Farm Bill supports more than just America’s agriculture sector. The bill’s energy title programs provide critical support to companies and manufacturers working on innovations in renewable chemicals, advanced biofuels and other products of industrial biotechnology throughout the value chain. And these technologies are creating new jobs in rural America. READ MORE

RFA CEO Cooper Testifies on the Future Role of High Octane Fuels

(Renewable Fuels Association) While draft legislation recently released by Reps. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) and Bill Flores (R-Texas) represents “an important first step in the debate about future fuels policy and the role of high octane fuels,” the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) cannot support the proposal because it “does not provide the long-term certainty and growth path” that America’s ethanol producers need.

That was the message delivered by RFA President and CEO Geoff Cooper in testimony during today’s House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on the Environment hearing on the Shimkus/Flores proposal, named “The 21st Century Transportation Fuels Act.” While the proposal would establish a higher octane fuel requirement (95 RON) in 2023, the draft also would sunset the Renewable Fuel Standard’s (RFS) conventional biofuel requirements after 2022.

By eliminating the RFS for conventional biofuels, “…the draft bill would destabilize the considerable progress our nation has made toward greater energy security, economic vitality, and environmental health,” Cooper testified. “We simply cannot support eliminating the RFS program, as the draft envisions, without a much stronger signal to the market that ethanol’s role in our fuel supply will continue to grow.”

While any move toward higher octane would seem on the surface to benefit ethanol—the lowest-cost and cleanest source of octane on the market—recent analysis shows that refiners could meet the demand for 95 RON gasoline without using more ethanol. “Even though ethanol is far superior to other octane boosters in terms of cost, greenhouse gas emissions, air quality, health effects, and other factors, a 95 RON standard—when paired with elimination of the RFS conventional renewable fuel requirements—would not result in increased market opportunities for ethanol,” Cooper said. “RFA strongly believes a high octane fuel standard can work in concert with—not in conflict with—the RFS.”

“While a good conversation starter, this discussion draft does not provide the long-term certainty and growth path that America’s renewable fuel producers, farmers, automakers, and consumers need,” Cooper testified. “With proper oversight and implementation, the RFS can work in tandem with a high- octane standard to continue to drive innovation, support rural economies, and provide cleaner and cheaper fuel choices at the pump well beyond 2022,” he added.

A copy of Cooper’s prepared testimony is here. READ MORE WATCH VIDEO

RFS OVERHAUL IN THE SPOTLIGHT: (Politico’s Morning Energy)

House Hearing Delves into Future of Renewable Fuel Standard Program (NGT News)

Renewable fuels advocates defend the RFS in House hearing (RadioIowa)

Biofuels to House: Octane Idea a Dud: Fears Mount That Proposal Leaves Cellulosic Future in Oil Industry’s Hands (DTN The Progressive Farmer)

Excerpt from Politico’s Morning Energy: Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) is using his last days as head of the Energy and Commerce Environment Subcommittee to hold a hearing on his 21st Century Transportation Fuels Act, an overhaul of renewable fuels policy. Lawmakers have filled the witness list largely with renewable fuels advocates, while only one representative of the oil industry will testify: Chet Thompson, president of the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers.

The draft bill no one loves: Despite not appearing on the panel, API sent a letter to subcommittee leadership opposing the bill for locking in a fixed amount of advanced biofuels blending and approving a waiver to allow year-round sale of 15 percent ethanol fuel. Biofuels groups oppose the draft bill for pretty much the same reasons. READ MORE

Excerpt from NGT News: Michael McAdams, president of the Advanced Biofuels Association, noted that the group “supports this committee’s efforts to reform the RFS.”

“We believe that comprehensive reform will actualize the vision for advanced renewable fuels that this committee and Congress as a whole overwhelmingly supported when it passed the RFS in 2007.”

He explained, “With the transportation sector now the greatest contributor to U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions, and with the volume of air traffic doubling every 15 years, we need to ensure that we have a sufficient supply of alternative, low-carbon fuels.”

However, he noted that there are still “numerous barriers to entry under the current RFS program that specifically disadvantage these innovative fuels of the future.”

A potential reform, according to McAdams, would be to “take politics out of the equation as much as possible by making the RFS a rules-based system.”

“For example,” he explained, “we support legislative provisions that would base the annual [renewable volume obligation] on the previous year’s actual production, queuing up mid-year and end-of-year adjustments to account for increases or decreases in production.”

Manning Feraci of the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas (RNG Coalition) also provided testimony on behalf of the renewable natural gas (RNG) industry.

At the outset of his testimony, Feraci noted that RNG currently fuels more than 25% of the nation’s medium- and heavy-duty natural gas vehicles and represents more than 95% of the renewable fuel used to meet the RFS program’s cellulosic biofuel requirements.

“Renewable natural gas is an environmentally friendly fuel that reduces lifecycle emissions by 80 percent or more compared to conventional petroleum diesel,” he said.

Feraci’s testimony noted the importance of long-term certainty for advanced and cellulosic biofuels under the RFS program to the nation’s increased production of clean fuels, to domestic fuel and energy security, and to achieving decreased greenhouse-gas emissions over the long term.

“A long-term RFS program is a vital component of a policy framework that attracts the investment and deployment of capital needed to increase the production and use of clean advanced biofuels like RNG,” he said. “RNG projects require significant capital investment… They often involve 20-year off-take agreements with feedstock providers.”

He testified that cellulosic biofuels industry entrepreneurs, business owners, financiers and marketers have invested over a billion dollars in response to Congress’ enacting the RFS program. Feraci noted that since 2011 with the RFS framework, the RNG industry has developed over 45 production facilities capable of producing high-Btu gas that can be used for transportation applications, with over 50 projects under construction or consideration.

“As a result of the RFS, we have a growing, vibrant domestic industry that is converting waste into a domestically produced cellulosic biofuel that can be readily incorporated into our existing infrastructure and be utilized by natural gas vehicles. Further, this is being done in a way that reduces harmful emissions. This is a win-win scenario.”

A video of the hearing, along with all written testimonies, can be found here. READ MORE

Excerpt from DTN The Progressive Farmer: Biofuel interests generally support the move to 95 RON (research octane number) requirement at the pump. However, industry representatives told the committee the move wasn’t bold enough. Some suggest a move to 98 RON would provide a better incentive for high-octane fuels such as ethanol.

The current proposal, Skor said, would not be much of an incentive for petroleum interests.

“In fact, 98% of all gasoline sold in the U.S. today contains 10% ethanol,” she said. “Moving to a 95 RON baseline fuel would require almost no changes from refiners across the country.”

NO INCENTIVE

Brooke Coleman executive director of the Advanced Biofuels Business Council, said moving to a 95 RON would do little to incentivize the oil industry to buy more ethanol.

“In theory, renewable fuels like ethanol are in the best position to succeed under an octane standard because ethanol is by far the cheapest source of octane available today,” he said. “In practice, and unfortunately, it is in the oil industry’s long-term financial interest to marginalize competition and buy petroleum-based octane enhancers from themselves, even if it means lower downstream profits in the immediate term.”

Coleman said the proposal provides some predictability for advanced biofuels in setting volume standards and feedstock.

“Unfortunately, the volumetric predictability comes in the form of a provision long advocated by the oil industry, namely, the setting of cellulosic biofuel standards based on prior year actual production,” he said. “We strongly oppose the adoption of this provision under current and any future renewable fuel regimes. The problem with setting the cellulosic biofuel standard based on prior year production is it puts the growth trajectory of cellulosic biofuels largely in the hands of the oil industry.”

Kurt Kovarik, vice president of federal affairs at the National Biodiesel Board, said the NBB also is concerned that the proposal lacks incentive to use biofuels such as biodiesel.

“The proposal would direct EPA to set backward-looking volume requirements,” he said. “It may protect existing assets but not drive investment and further growth. And it would not address several of the causes of instability in the program, such as retroactive small refinery exemptions.” READ MORE

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“We’ve been intervening at every point to say (a) the UN’s Special Report says bioenergy is as important as electromobility for the next four decades and (b) no policy discussion can be meaningful unless it looks at the cost of the different measures, and regular ethanol is the cheapest climate measure in transport by a long shot.” Climate Ethanol Alliances’s James Cogan describing work at COP24 this week, quoted in Biofuels Digest. READ MORE

Energy Department Seeks Information on Algae, Biomass, and Waste Feedstock Research — DE-FOA-00002020 FY 2019 Bioenergy Technologies Multi-Topic RFI DEADLINE: January 4, 2019

(Department of Energy) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Bioenergy Technologies Office

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São Paulo Invests in Pioneering Biogas Plant

(Investe São Paulo/NGV Journal) The companies Raízen and Geo Energética have merged in a joint venture to create the first plant

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Study: ‘No Scientific Basis’ For Challenges To EPA Endangerment Finding

by Barbara Moran (WBUR News) There’s more proof that greenhouse gases are dangerous to human health. That’s the conclusion of a study published Thursday in the

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Algae Biomass Summit — September 16-19, 2019 — Orlando, FL DEADLINE: January 31, 2019

The Summit is the algae industry’s premier event, where leading producers of algae products go to network with industry suppliers

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Algae Agriculture Triumphs in Farm Bill Compromise

(Algae Biomass Organization) In a historic day for the algae industry, the U.S. Senate Tuesday approved a Farm Bill compromise that dramatically expands

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Democrats Shift toward Impact on Jobs as Climate Change Moves to Front of 2020 Agenda

by Michael Sherer (Washington Post) … Democrats preparing to run for president have been rushing to shift their plans for combating climate

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The Climate Battle: Fuels vs Emissions

by Amy Harder (Axios) Getting off fossil fuels or reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a central sticking point emerging here

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The Andersons to Implement ICM Technologies at Multiple Plants

(ICM/Ethanol Producer Magazine) ICM Inc. and The Andersons Inc. have announced plans to implement value-added technologies in multiple ethanol plants operated

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The Oil Industry’s Covert Campaign to Rewrite American Car Emissions Rules

by Hiroko Tabuchi (New York Times) When the Trump administration laid out a plan this year that would eventually allow cars to

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Maharashtra Government to Produce Ethanol, CNG from Cashew Apple

(DNA India) Amidst rising chorus for green fuel, the Maharashtra government has proposed to produce ethanol and compressed natural gas (CNG)

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Benefuel Looking to British Columbia for New Biodiesel Facility

(Benefuel Inc./Biodiesel Magazine) Benefuel Inc. responded to British Columbia’s recently publicized climate change plan that included an expanded Low Carbon Fuel Standard

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Chipinge Villagers Sue Greenfuel to Stop Seizure of Communal Land

(Radio VOP) VILLAGERS in Chipinge, Manicaland province have dragged ethanol producer, GreenFuel to court to stop it from occupying their communal land and

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Farm Bill Energy Title Contains Climate Tweaks, Slimmer Funding

by Jessie Stolark (Environmental and Energy Study Institute) … While the bill is largely viewed as a status-quo farm bill, the

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Intellectual Property for Project Development

by Terry Mazanec and Justin Krieger (Lee Enterprises Consulting, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, LLP/Biofuels Digest) … Careful and thoughtful planning for obtaining intellectual

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Biofuels for Marine Engines and Pathways to Success: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide ABLC Guide to BETO

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) focuses on several bioproducts for R&D and

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Biobased Beer Can Rings, Algae and Bugs, Chitin-Based Plastic Breakthrough, Gribble Gut Enzymes, Banana-Based Products: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of December 14th

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) The pace of bioeconomy invention and change continues at a frenetic pace. Here are the top

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School of ExxonMobil: Algae Biofuel

(ExxonMobile)Discover the wonderful world of algae, along with a very inquisitive young scientist. WATCH VIDEO

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Batteries Could Worsen CO2 Emissions — Study

by Christa Marshall (E&E News) Home batteries like the Tesla Powerwall could spike greenhouse gas emissions significantly unless current policies governing

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Exclusive: White House Delays New Farm Aid Payments on China Trade Hopes – Sources

by Humeyra Pamuk and Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) The White House is delaying additional payments from a $12 billion aid package for farmers

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House GOP Pushes Elimination of Ethanol Mandate

by James Osborne (Houston Chronicle) House Republicans are pushing to eliminate the federal mandate that ethanol be blended into the nation’s

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RSB Assembly Approves Groundbreaking Standard for Advanced Products

(Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials) In a leap forward for the sustainable bioeconomy, the members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials approved

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Collaboration Is the Name of the Game at RSB’s 2018 Annual Meeting – Event Wrap-up

(Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials) Each year RSB brings its community together for the highlight of our calendar: our Annual Meeting. An

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Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) and the Queensland Renewable Fuels Association (QRFA) Signed an MOU Partnership Agreement to Support the Certification of Biofuels and Endorsement of Future Low Carbon Fuel Projects in Queensland, Australia.

(Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials) In Philadelphia, on 19th July 2018 the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) and the Queensland Renewable Fuels

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Shipping Leaders Look to Develop a Roadmap for Biofuels with Commitment to Real Sustainability at Heart

(Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials) The Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) grouping of leading maritime organisations, and the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) – the world’s

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Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials Building a Sustainable Bioeconomy Together

(Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials) The Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials premiered a brand new animation – a new tool for all partners

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Congress Urged to Investigate Why DOE Is Sitting on $600 Million in Clean Energy Funding

(Natural Resources Defense Council) The Natural Resources Defense Council today urged Congress to investigate why the Department of Energy (DOE) still

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BBE High School Visits CVEC

(Minnesota Bio-Fuels Association) Twenty students from Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa (BBE) High School toured Chippewa Valley Ethanol Company (CVEC) in Benson this morning to

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Springfield High School Tours Highwater Ethanol

(Minnesota Bio-Fuels Association) Eighteen students from Springfield High School toured Highwater Ethanol today to learn more about homegrown renewable energy production.

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Milaca High School Tours Central Minnesota Renewables

(Minnesota Bio-Fuels Association) Thirty students from Milaca High School toured the Central Minnesota Renewables (CMR) plant today to gain a better

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Benson High School Tours CVEC

(Minnesota Bio-Fuels Association) Twenty students from Benson High School toured the Chippewa Valley Ethanol Company (CVEC) plant today to get a

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MN Biofuels Awards Plymouth Station Holiday 2018 Distinguished Retailer; Releases 2018 Annual Report

(Minnesota Bio-Fuels Association) The Minnesota Bio-Fuels Association (MN Biofuels) named Plymouth Station Holiday as its 2018 Distinguished Retailer yesterday at the

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SfL’s Kawamura Tells COP24 Participants Ag Needs Help – And Must Help Itself – in Taking on Climate Change

(Solutions from the Land) A.G. Kawamura, co-chair of Solutions from the Land (SfL) and a member of the North America Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance (NACSAA),

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New Climate Response Model Calculates Impact of Road Traffic Fast

(Delft University of Technology/Phys.Org) Vanessa Rieger created a model which assesses the impact and the contribution of road traffic emission scenarios

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Researchers at IT Tralee Secure over €1.2m in Funding for Research in Bioeconomy and Marine Sectors.

(Institute of Technology Tralee) Institute of Technology Tralee has been awarded €1.26 million in new funding to partner in two

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Torrefaction of Biomass: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide ABLC Guide to International Biomass Torrefaction Council

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) The International Biomass Torrefaction Council aims to promote biomass torrefaction and let the world know that

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Year of the Tree, CORSIA Fuels, Mabus’ Remarks, a Breakthrough on Woody Biomass?: Heard on the Floor at the CAAFI General Meeting

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) When the world’s leaders for sustainable aviation fuels have a general meeting the week before the

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A Kill Switch For Genetically Modified Algae

(Hiroshima University/Asian Scientist Magazine) By preventing bioengineered microalgae from growing outside the lab, researchers have reduced the risk of the genetically

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Scientists Convert Wet Biological Waste into Fuel We Can Blend with Diesel

by Christian Nordqvist (Market Business News) A team of scientists has converted wet biological waste into diesel-compatible fuel. We are now a

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ACT Expo to Recognize Sustainable Transportation Leaders Nomination DEADLINE: February 22, 2019

(ACT News) The Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo Fleet Awards are the ultimate recognition of fleet operators who show true leadership

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Biofuels Lead Efforts to Protect the Climate

by Craig Willis (EurActiv/Growth Energy) With every passing year, the pathway to a stable climate gets narrower and more difficult to

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Biofuels and Environmental Groups Commend New Pilot Environmental Quality and Incentive Program in 2018 Farm Bill Report

(Grain Net) The American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE), Environmental Entrepreneurs(E2), the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) thank the Farm Bill conferees

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UNILORIN to Commence Installation of Mini-Refinery for Biodiesel

(News Diary Online) The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. Sulyman Abdulkareem, says the university will soon install a mini-refinery

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Port of St. Helens Acts on Crude Oil Shipments to Clatskanie Area

by Chole Skaar (TDN.com) In a unanimous vote, the Port of St. Helens commissioners on Wednesday agreed to allow a wider

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“Years of Litigation ahead” in Edeniq vs Aemetis Dispute

(Biofuels International) The ongoing legal dispute between renewable fuels and chemicals company Aemetis and cellulosic and biorefining technology company Edeniq has

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I’m Just a Bill: Incoming House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter DeFazio Signaled He Was on Board with Nancy Pelosi’s Plan to Establish a Select Committee

(Politico’s Morning Energy) Incoming House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter DeFazio signaled he was on board with Nancy Pelosi’s plan

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Agriculture Sector Must Take Active Role in Creating Climate Policy

(Solutions from the Land) Events at the last round of global climate talks in Katowice, Poland over the past two weeks

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NFU Urges House Subcommittee to Expand Use of High-Octane, American Grown Biofuels

(The Fence Post/National Farmers Union) As Congress looks to revamp and coordinate federal-level policies that govern the transportation fuels and vehicles

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Neste Strengthens Its Global Leading Position in Renewable Products with a Major Investment in Singapore

(Neste) Neste Corporation has made the final investment decision on additional renewable products production capacity in Singapore. The decision is based

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Pre-Flight Checklist for Biofuture Takeoff: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide ABLC Guide to Biofuture Platform

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Biofuture platformwas launched at COP22 by 20 countries and top representatives of FAO, IEA, IRENA, UNIDO,

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Zymergen, the Porsche 911 of the Materials Superhighway, Raises $400M in Monumental Series C Round

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) … In California, Zymergen has raised over $400 million in Series C funding led by

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2018 Farm Bill Helps Rural America Become More Resilient: Rural Economies Crucial to Combating Climate Change

(Environmental and Energy Study Institute) The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) commends the Farm Bill conferees and the House and Senate

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Scaling the Ethanol ‘Blend Wall’ Ultimately Consumers’ Decision

by John Duff (Delta Farm Press/National Sorghum Producers) … The Biofuels Infrastructure Partnership program is a grassroots effort to fund new