by Krista Eastman (Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center) In an article published last summer in Science, researchers at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) reported on ten years of work assessing the
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by Mark E. Griffin (Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center) Zymomonas mobilis is a creature of habit, a bacterial species that loves to eat simple sugars and produce ethanol, but shows little interest in
April 30, 2018
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(Globe Newswire/ Renewable Industries Canada (RICanada) and Advanced Biofuels Canada (ABFC)) Canada’s two largest biofuels stakeholders – Renewable Industries Canada (RICanada) and Advanced Biofuels Canada (ABFC), together representing almost 50 member
April 30, 2018
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(National Biodiesel Board) New Fleet Survey Reveals Biodiesel is Top Alt Fuel, and Diesel Engines Still in Demand — North America’s top fleets have spoken, and their #1 choice for greening their
April 30, 2018
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(VietNamNet Bridge)The Ministry of Finance (MOF) is compiling the amended Environment Protection Tax Law. From July, every liter of petrol will be charged an additional VND1,000 in environmental tax. The
April 30, 2018
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by Corine Orline Nzeteu, Anna Christine Trego, Florence Abram, and Vincent O’Flaherty (Biotechnology for Biofuels) … In recent years, organic waste streams have been investigated as attractive and sustainable feedstock alternatives. In
April 30, 2018
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) The estimable and always fascinating and quotable James Iademarco gave this illuminating overview of the state of renewable chemicals – as he aptly puts it
April 30, 2018
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by Helena Tavares Kennedy (Biofuels Digest) In Missouri, soybean farmers and biodiesel processors, distributors, and retailers have come together to launch a new partnership, the Biodiesel Coalition of Missouri, which aims to
April 30, 2018
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by Sarantis Michalopoulos (EurActiv) Ireland’s environment ministry has decided to increase the crop-based biofuel share in transport to 10% from the existing 8% and draw a 2030 plan aiming to provide
April 30, 2018
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by Jarrett Renshaw and Chris Prentice (Reuters) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted a financial hardship waiver to an oil refinery owned by billionaire Carl Icahn, a former adviser to
April 30, 2018
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by Kelsey Tamborrino (Politico’s Morning Energy) The Trump administration plans to argue that California does not have the authority to enforce stringent greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars, despite the Obama administration’s
April 30, 2018
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(IEA Bioenergy) IEA Bioenergy has started to make a collection of success stories in the field of bioenergy. This is not intended to be a comprehensive exercise, but to provide a
April 27, 2018
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(U.S. Energy Information Administration) While most fossil fuels in the United States are burned, or combusted, to produce heat and power, EIA estimates that the equivalent of about 5.5 quadrillion British
April 27, 2018
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(Urban Air Initiative) The resistance to ethanol expansion is really about politics and a desire to squash competition. But if you weed through all of PR campaigns and simply evaluate fuel
April 27, 2018
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by Agnes Walton (Vice News) The Department of Energy is trying to turn a lake in the California desert called the Salton Sea into a farm for renewable fuels — and
April 27, 2018
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(South Africa Today/Mongabay) -A union of palm oil smallholders is challenging the allocation of a billion-dollar fund that they say fails to help them rejuvenate their low-yielding oil palms and
April 27, 2018
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(GreenAir Online) In a peer-reviewed research article published in the journal Climate Law, air transport economist Chris Lyle examines ICAO’s role in addressing international aviation’s growing emissions since referral by the UNFCCC to
April 27, 2018
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(GreenAir ONline) Canada’s Green Aviation Research and Development Network (GARDN), a non-profit organisation that brings together government, academia and the aerospace industry to develop technologies and processes to lessen the sector’s
April 27, 2018
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(GreenAir Online) … Canada’s Biojet Supply Chain Initiative (CBSCI) is a three-year project between 14 stakeholder organisations, including Air Canada, which are working to enable a biojet supply chain in the country,
April 27, 2018
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by Meghan Sapp (Biofuels Digest) In Mexico, researchers from the National Institute of Forestry, Agriculture and Livestock Research are making headway on the production of biodiesel from pine nuts with three high oil
April 27, 2018
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Adam Klauber of the Rocky Mountain Institute gave this presentation about working with airports to increase sustainable alternative jet fuel use at ABLC in Washington,
April 27, 2018
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by Emily Druckman (Renewable Fuels Association) Ethanol has played a key role in the success of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) and is poised to make even greater contributions to
April 27, 2018
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by Chrysa Glystra (Platts) The UK wants to push the country’s transition to waste-based biofuels, but some revisions are possible depending on how the market responds to the new increased Renewable Transport
April 27, 2018
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(Argus Media) Ethanol producers selling fuel in California may emerge as a beneficiary of a technology often associated with the coal industry. The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has proposed changes
April 27, 2018
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ETIP Bioenergy will present several low TRL biofuel technologies during a workshop taking place on 4th June at the NH Brussels EU Berlaymont in Brussels, combined with offering opportunities for
April 26, 2018
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by Susanne Retka Schill (Ethanol Producer Magazine) Technologies for feed coproducts are evolving, pumping out high-protein ingredient alternatives. Experts assure the market is ripe. — The pile of distillers grains at nearly
(Syngenta/Ethanol Producer Magazine) As ethanol plants seek new ways to be more competitive, advances in corn kernel fiber to ethanol processes have shown significant promise in adding value through the diversification
April 26, 2018
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(DTN The Progressive Farmer) Oil state partisans, including certain refiners, have raged about a credit-trading market within the program that they say causes undue economic pain. The biofuels industry counters that
April 26, 2018
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by Chris Clayton (DTN The Progressive Farmer) In another blow to support for the House version of the farm bill, the National Farmers Union’s board of directors early Wednesday passed a
April 26, 2018
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by A.J. Higgins (Maine Public) Members of the Municipal Review Committee (MRC) said Wednesday that it will work with communities that are uncomfortable with an interim plan to temporarily send their
April 26, 2018
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(EconoTimes/Aemetis) Pre-treatment Unit Passes First Production Tests Required to Supply BP Singapore Under Three-year Agreement — Aemetis, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMTX) announced today that its Universal Biofuels subsidiary completed the production of high quality distilled
April 26, 2018
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Praj is an India-based process solutions specialist with continued leadership in ethanol & brewery space over many years — aiming to emerge as a significant water
April 26, 2018
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(Burn) Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) announced Kenya-based BURN Manufacturing, makers of the JikokoaTM and KuniokoaTMcookstoves, has been awarded this year’s Bloomberg New Energy Pioneers Award. The annual award recognizes “game-changing companies”
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) … US gasoline prices are at a three-year high, says CNBC. This time, the response has been to dither on biofuels and to point to reasonably dismal
April 26, 2018
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by Tom Callis (Hawaii Tribune-Herald) … The state’s Agribusiness Development Corp. is proposing to build a $1.5 million facility at the Shipman Business Park that would grow algae from leftover produce,
April 25, 2018
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by Emily Druckman (Renewable Fuels Association) EPA’s recent actions in exempting small refineries from their Renewable Fuel Standard blending obligations for 2016 and 2017 have effectively lowered the volumetric obligations
April 25, 2018
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(EIN PressWire) Biofuels (Biodiesel And Bioethanol) – Global Market Demand, Growth, Opportunities, Manufacturers, Analysis of Top Key Players and Forecast to 2023 The Biofuels (Biodiesel And Bioethanol) market revenue was xx.xx
(Algae Biomass Organization) Algae is on a roll in Congress. Despite a challenging fiscal environment, the latest federal spending bill passed by Congress includes new funding for algae R&D that will
April 25, 2018
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(Minnesota Bio-Fuels Association) The Minnesota Bio-Fuels Association (MBA) and KS95 FM teamed up today at the Tesoro station on Riverside Avenue in Minneapolis to reward drivers who switched to E15. From
(American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute) The ACS Green Chemistry Institute® is pleased to announce the opening of the 2018 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. The U.S. EPA supports the continuation of
(Bio-Based News) From cashew nut residuals and cellulose fibrils over roof shingle sealer from soy-bean oil up to innovative composite and packaging materials — For the 11th year in a row, the
April 25, 2018
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by Steve Bi* (Advanced Biofuels USA) At one of a series of bioenergy conferences in Brussels, April 10-12, 2018, some combination of hearty guffaws, inward chuckles and solemn nods greeted
by Joanna McWilliams (Colorado State University) A Colorado State University project to grow and harvest ocean macroalgae for biofuel production has received support from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).
(Air Liquide/Biomass Magazine) Since the beginning of 2018, Air Liquide has commissioned three new biomethane production units, in the U.S, France, and the U.K. With these units, Air Liquide has doubled
April 25, 2018
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(Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas/Biomass Magazine) The Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas (RNG Coalition) announced the release April 19 of a new map and project database of renewable natural gas (RNG)
April 25, 2018
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by Erin Voegele (Biomass Magazine) The U.S. EPA is seeking nominations for its Mobile Sources Technical Review Subcommittee, which is designed to provide the Clean Air Advisory Committee with independent advice,
April 25, 2018
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(Globe Newswire) UPM Biofuels’ continuous efforts for a more sustainable supply chain and operations has been recognized by the world’s first RSB (Roundtable of Sustainable Biomaterials) low ILUC (indirect land use
April 25, 2018
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(Growth Energy) Today, Growth Energy announced a new partnership initiative between its American Ethanol program and Universal Technical Institute (UTI), the nation’s leading provider of technical training for automotive, diesel,
April 25, 2018
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(Hero BX/Biodiesel Magazine) Biodiesel producer Lake Erie Biofuels LLC, doing business as Hero BX, recently announced a strategic partnership with Iowa Renewable Energy LLC based in Washington, Iowa, to manufacture and market
April 25, 2018
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(BBI International/PR Newswire) Adoption of both D3MAX and Whitefox Technologies will result in making the Stanley ethanol plant one of the most efficient ethanol facilities in the world. — D3MAX, LLC and Ace Ethanol,
April 25, 2018
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by Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis (The Washington Post) Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt moved Tuesday to limit what science can be used in writing agency regulations, a change long sought
April 25, 2018
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(Stanford University/Phys.Org) Although considered critical to avoiding catastrophic global warming, the feasibility of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it underground – known as negative emissions – has been
April 24, 2018
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by Tim Albrecht (Ethanol Producer Magazine) Canada recently filed its 2017 annual biofuels report with the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service’s Global Information Network, showing Canadian production is at full capacity and
April 24, 2018
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Aiming to discuss the main issues of the global Sugar and Ethanol industries and to bring together representatives of the international community of producers, traders, brokers, investors, and from the
April 24, 2018
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Generating the highest value from co-products at ethanol facilities is critical in today’s turbulent ethanol market. What are the opportunities to produce high-value protein to maximize co-product value? In this Ethanol
April 24, 2018
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(VTT) A joint study by the University of Turku and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has shown that the ability of photosynthesising microbial cells to produce biohydrogen from solar energy
April 24, 2018
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The two day event will bring together senior executives and experts from the full value chain to provide a forum
April 24, 2018
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Aim: To promote quality research and real-world impact in an atmosphere of true international co-operation between scientists, engineers and industry
Aim: To promote quality research and real-world impact in an atmosphere of true international co-operation between scientists, engineers and industry
April 24, 2018
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The two day event will bring together senior executives and experts from the full value chain to provide a forum
April 24, 2018
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(Bioenergy Insight) A project called Biogo-for-Production has developed new nanocatalysts to create an integrated modular and highly efficient process for producing fuels from
April 24, 2018
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(Bioenergy Insight) The scaling up of renewable energy production needs to be drastically accelerated if the world is to meet the
April 24, 2018
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by Betsy Lillian (NGT News) Pittsburg Unified School District (PUSD), a public school district based in Contra Costa County, Calif., has
April 24, 2018
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by Betsy Lillian (NGT News) Ameresco Inc. says its gas-to-energy facility at Waste Management’s Woodland Meadows Landfill in Michigan has achieved
April 24, 2018
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by Betsy Lillian (NGT News) New Hudson, Mich.-based Icom North America and Ayr, Ontario-based Hiller Truck Tech have signed an exclusive
April 24, 2018
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by Jerica Phillips (WBRC) FedEx celebrated Earth Day by showing off how the company is becoming more eco-friendly. The Memphis-based shipping
April 24, 2018
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(Braskem/WebWire) Braskem expands strategy for the future of renewable chemicals — Braskem (B3: BRKM3, BRKM5 and BRKM6; NYSE: BAK; LATIBEX: XBRK), the largest
April 24, 2018
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by Meghan Sapp (Biofuels Digest) In Georgia, in a meeting with members of the forestry community, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection
April 24, 2018
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This unique international conference creates a great platform to researches, scientists, academicians and industry experts to share experiences, discuss research
April 24, 2018
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by Yuthana Praiwan (Bangkok Post) The Thai Biodiesel Producer Association (TBPA) has called for energy policymakers to accelerate their enforcement of
April 24, 2018
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(Ireland Department of Communications Climate Action and Environment/4-Traders) The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Denis Naughten, T.D.,has published a draft
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Conifex’s business is the harvesting of timber and the manufacture and sale of lumber, primarily for North
April 24, 2018
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ABLC 2018 wrapped up with the ABLC Wolfpack including James Iademarco from Strategic Avalanche, David Dodds with Dodds &
April 24, 2018
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) For many people, the key question is — what is Amyris becoming, and when, and
April 24, 2018
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ABLC featured a well-received session on renewable chemicals moderated by longtime Digesterati David Dodds. His initial
April 24, 2018
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) The pace of invention and change is just too strong, we’ve realized, to highlight annual or
April 24, 2018
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) … For those newer to the field, one of the problems of using biomass to make
April 24, 2018
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by Mario Bonaccorso (Renewable Matter) … 700 million tonnes of sugarcane treated in one year; 30.23 billion litres of bioethanol
April 23, 2018
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by Alyssa Danigelis (Energy Manager Today) A new map and project database show at least 76 operational renewable natural gas production
April 23, 2018
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by Gunjan Mukherjee* (Advanced Biofuels USA/Chandigarh University Institute of Biotechnology (UIBT)) The International Conference on Sustainable Biofuel was held at
April 23, 2018
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by Emmanuel Desplechin (ePURE/Ethanol Producer Magazine) … They rely on “multipliers” that artificially inflate the contribution of certain renewables, while doing nothing
April 23, 2018
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by F. Todd Davidson (Forbes) A seemingly small action from the Environmental Protection Agency could spark a new war between Big Oil
April 23, 2018
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by Barry Amundson (Grand Forks Herald) U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D, is concerned about two major issues that can affect farmers and
April 23, 2018
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by Kelsey Tamborrino (Politico’s Morning Energy) Despite efforts by President Donald Trump to settle a long-running dispute between ethanol backers and
April 23, 2018
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by D’lyn Ford (North Carolina State University/Phys.Org) A new systems biology model that mimics the process of wood formation allows scientists
April 23, 2018
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The Iowa Biodiesel Board has developed a Food Safety Program for biodiesel producers, designed to assist producers who want to
April 23, 2018
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(Iowa Biodisel Board) Iowa Biodiesel Board launches program to meet industry need; Webinar takes place May 10 — Biodiesel producers who want
April 23, 2018
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(World Business Council for Sustainable Development) Today, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development released its first below50 insights report, outlining key
April 23, 2018
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(Dane County Wisconsin) Creates Economic Incentive for Development of Lakes Clean Up Efforts — Today (April 19, 2018), Dane County Executive Joe
April 23, 2018
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Driving Profit in Biofuels Production through Innovation: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to ICM
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ICM’s equipment and processes are already used in the majority of U.S. ethanol plants, and continues
April 23, 2018
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by Jonathan Saul and Libby George (Reuters) The International Maritime Organization said it approved on Friday an amendment that would ban
April 23, 2018
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(BBI-Europe) The BBI JU is the largest and most ambitious initiative ever launched in the EU to develop competitive and sustainable
April 20, 2018
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by Mattie Hensley (Sandia National Laboratory) The United States could increase its domestic fuel supplies by 25 billion gallons per year
April 20, 2018
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by Jieyi Lu (Environmental and Energy Study Institute) Making Vehicles More Efficient Is Critical to Reduce Emissions — … Over the next
by Dominique Patton (Reuters) Grain trader and processor China Beidahuang Industry Group has signed an agreement with the mayor of Inner
April 20, 2018
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(Delaware Business Now) PBF Logistics LP will invest in ethanol loading infrastructure at the Delaware City refinery marine terminal. An ethanol project
April 20, 2018
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by Terry Anderson (Midwest Messenger News) … One day after President Trump told a group of governors and lawmakers invited to
April 20, 2018
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by John Siciliano and Josh Siegel (Washington Examiner Daily on Energy) …The other big bailout concern is the Environmental Protection Agency’s
April 20, 2018
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by Jennifer MacKellar (ACS Green Chemistry Institute/Chemistry Community Online) Over the years, there have been many efforts to provide green chemistry
April 20, 2018
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by Chuck Abbott (Successful Farming) … In May 2017, during his (Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue) first month as secretary, he created
April 20, 2018
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by Erin Voegele (Ethanol Producer Magazine) … In a statement, House Ranking Member Collin Peterson, D-Minn., criticized the legislation, calling
April 20, 2018
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) With the launch of the Biochemical Technology Leadership Roundtable (BTLR), the ACS GCI seeks to provide
April 20, 2018
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by Jim Lane (Biofuel Digest) … Clearly, meat isn’t going away very soon, the cow isn’t going away very soon. So,
April 20, 2018
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by Tim Albrecht (Ethanol Producer Magazine) The ethanol industry has polished its coproduction of distillers grains. Now, a handful of companies
April 20, 2018
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by Evan Halper (Los Angeles Times) The Trump administration is embracing a curious — and some would say dated —
April 20, 2018
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by John Siciliano and Josh Siegel (Washington Examiner) A study showing that U.S. ethanol leader Iowa doesn’t use a lot of its
April 20, 2018
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(Commission for Environmental Cooperation) The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is requesting proposals from prospective consultants to work in collaboration
April 20, 2018
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Over the past decade, existing dry grind ethanol plants have sought to extract value out of the corn kernel through
April 20, 2018
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by Will LeRoy (CleanTech Canada) Canada’s Biojet Supply Chain Initiative (CBSCI) will on Earth Day mix 230,000 litres of biofuel into
April 20, 2018
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(Clean Electricity Generation/PR Newswire) At several locations around the world, a partnership of international companies will start construction of facilities, where
April 20, 2018
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by Tom DiChristopher (CNBC) Bipartisan senators on Tuesday asked the EPA to stop issuing waivers that allow oil refiners to
April 20, 2018
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by Stephanie Searle and Kristine Bitnere (International Council on Clean Transportation) Indonesia promotes biodiesel consumption through a blending mandate and a
April 20, 2018
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(National Non-Food Crops Centre) Today we have published the fifth edition of our annual ‘Anaerobic Digestion Deployment in the UK’ report.
April 20, 2018
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) LanzaTech has developed a fully sustainable integrative gas to fuels and chemicals platform that has no
April 19, 2018
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) The pace of invention and change is just too strong, we’ve realized, to highlight annual or
April 19, 2018
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by Betsy Lillian (NGT News) Today, the California Senate Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications advanced a pro-renewable natural gas
April 19, 2018
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by Bill Poteat (Gaston Gazette) … Walyak Energy has proposed building the $45 million facility on vacant land at the intersection
April 19, 2018
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by Lara Webster (ABC Rural) The Australian sugar cane industry is being told to look beyond biofuels due to the risk
April 19, 2018
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by Michael Bastasch (The Daily Caller) The federal biofuel mandate “has failed to achieve its policy goals while imposing significant other costs
April 19, 2018
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(Clean Energy Fuels Corp./ NGV Journal) Clean Energy Fuels Corp. introduced ZERO NOW, a fueling solution that combines the world’s
April 19, 2018
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(U.S. Department of Energy) Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $39 million in available funding to
April 19, 2018
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(Brookhaven National Laboratory/Biodiesel Magazine) Scientists studying plant biochemistry at the U.S. DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered new details about biomolecules
(National Biodiesel Board) The next generation of science thought leaders are gearing up to lead America’s energy efforts. And biodiesel, our
April 18, 2018
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by Cindy Zimmerman (Energy.AgWired.com) A former co-chair of the Next Generation Scientists for Biodiesel has been selected to participate in the World Energy Council’s Future Energy
April 18, 2018
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(albawaba.com) ENOC Group, in collaboration with Dubai Municipality recently launched a pilot project using Biodiesel5 to fuel Dubai Municipality’s fleet of
April 18, 2018
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(ASTM International/Ethanol Producer Magazine) Members of ASTM International recently revised a key test method (D1613) that has been used to measure
April 18, 2018
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(Detroit Zoological Society/Biomass Magazine) The Detroit Zoological Society will be number one at giving away number two when it hosts its
April 18, 2018
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by Erin Voegele (Biomass Magazine) On April 12, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., introduced the Hemp Farming Act of 2018,
April 18, 2018
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Messages from Brussels: More Biofuels for Transport Are Badly Needed and Can Be Produced Sustainably
(BioFuture Platform) Several international initiatives and organizations met in Brussels to discuss the need and the ways to scale up
April 18, 2018
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(Biomass Magazine) BBI International and Biomass Magazine named its annual industry award winners at the 11th International Biomass Conference & Expo underway in Atlanta,
April 18, 2018
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology/EurekAlert!) Several different carbon-pricing approaches would help reduce emissions, and some would be fair as well, researchers report
April 18, 2018
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IEA Bioenergy invites you to participate in an international webinar entitled, “Biofuels for the Marine Sector: New Opportunities and New
April 18, 2018
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(European Investment Bank) New financing initiative targets investments by private cooperatives and companies in the agriculture and bioeconomy sector; The EIB financing
April 18, 2018
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(U.S. Department of Energy) While vehicles and fuels currently on the market get travelers from Point A to Point B,
April 18, 2018
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by Erik Shilling (Jalopnik) … Higher compression ratios, and thus higher octane, can have the additional benefit of greater fuel efficiency if
April 18, 2018
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(4-Traders) Congressman King Pledges Continued Biofuel Support to Iowa Renewable Fuels Association — Congressman Steve King, a member of the House Agriculture
April 18, 2018
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(U.S. Grains Council) The U.S. Grains Council (USGC), the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA), Growth Energy and their member organizations welcome the
April 18, 2018
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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Sierra Energy has created what is billed as “the world’s most efficient gasifier,” FastOx, developed in
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In the Netherlands and England, Shell released its most definitive statement yet on its low-carbon future
April 18, 2018
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by Francois De Beaupuy and Ania Nussbaum (Bloomberg) Global Bioenergies looks to extract fuels from non-food crops; Unlike ethanol, fuel works in any
April 18, 2018
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by Benjamin Storrow (E&E News) … Transportation emissions threaten to undercut blue states’ climate goals, raising questions about their ability
April 18, 2018
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(Viking Analytics/Seeking Alpha) REX consistently outperforms its peers in making ethanol profitably. REX has zero debt, a large cash position, and has
by Paloma López Bermejo (The Parliament Magazine) We must establish concrete criteria for determining how sustainable growing, manufacturing, transporting and
April 17, 2018
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(The Telegraph/Associated Press) A company has received final approval to start building a renewable-biofuels plant in south-central Oregon. The Herald and
April 17, 2018
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(Ethanol Europe Renewables/EurActiv) The Energy Directive (RED 2) transport decarbonisation ambitions ostensibly promote major capital investment in truly advanced biofuels
April 17, 2018
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(American Coalition for Ethanol/Ethanol Producer Magazine) American Coalition for Ethanol board member and past board president Ron Alverson of Dakota Ethanol
April 17, 2018
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Isobutanol: Now on the Radar for USA COMMENTS DUE April 30, 2018
by Jess Hewitt (Biofuels Digest/Lee Enterprises Consulting) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has opened a comment period for the registration of the use of Isobutanol in gasoline. Why is this important?