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Exclusive: White House Considers Plan to Clear Record Backlog of Small Refinery Biofuel Waivers

by Jarrett Renshaw and Stephanie Kelly (Reuters) ... The White House is considering granting many of the 19 requests for exemptions from 2024, and issuing a rule seeking input on how to deal with the others, some of which date back to 2016, the sources said.

The Trump administration sees approving some requests and delaying others as less of a shock to the multi-billion-dollar credit market than deciding on all of them at once, the sources said.

The White House would also likely force larger refiners to make up for the exempted gallons in a process known as reallocation, but the details are still being worked out, the sources said.

No final decision on a path forward has been made, the sources said, and details could change as industries step up engagement with the administration.

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Decisions on small refinery exemptions are made in a collaborative effort by the U.S. Department of Energy and the EPA, but the White House's Energy Dominance Council - along with White House aide Stephen Miller - has taken a lead role this time around, underscoring its importance, the sources told Reuters.

During the first Trump administration, the EPA significantly increased the number of exemptions approved, driving down the price of the renewable fuel credits and angering the Farm Belt, which said the exemptions hurt a program that drove investment in the Midwest.

The administration of former President Joe Biden was critical of the exemptions and let the applications linger without any decisions, resulting in the buildup.

The RFS gives refiners who need to buy credits to comply with the program roughly two years to submit them to the EPA, complicating the administration's efforts to resolve outstanding credits from 2016 until 2022 that are effectively worthless. READ MORE

Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs Halted by Court of International Trade

by David J. Lynch and Cat Zakrzewski (Washington Post) Most of President Trump’s tariffs were halted late Wednesday by a US trade court in a sharp rebuke of the president’s signature trade war policy. -- A specialized federal court in New York on Wednesday ruled that most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs — including those on Chinese goods — are illegal, upending negotiations with more than a dozen nations and creating fresh uncertainty for countless American businesses that depend upon foreign suppliers.

The decision by the little-known Court of International Trade neuters the president’s signature trade initiative: the comprehensive flurry of import taxes he announced on April 2 under the banner of “Liberation Day.”

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The trade court’s ruling that Trump exceeded his authority in imposing tariffs on all imported goods brought an immediate, albeit perhaps temporary, halt to his signature trade war policy.

“The challenged Tariff Orders will be vacated and their operation permanently enjoined,” a three-judge panel ruled.

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Justice Department said in a federal court filing that it will appeal.

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The president invoked a 1977 law that granted him emergency powers over the economy, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act or IEEPA.

The trade court’s ruling also freezes separate tariffs on Mexican, Canadian and Chinese goods, which Trump imposed to coerce those governments into taking action to counter human and drug trafficking. But import taxes on specific products such as automobiles, auto parts, steel and aluminum will remain in effect.

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The court noted that IEEPA says the president may only use his emergency powers “to deal with an unusual and extraordinary threat with respect to which a national emergency has been declared.”

Trump pointed to the merchandise trade deficit that the United States has run each year since 1975 as the “emergency” justifying his sweeping tariffs.

Wednesday’s ruling also applies to other tariffs that the president imposed on Mexico and Canada, citing an emergency over illegal migration and drug trafficking, and China for its alleged role in facilitating production of the opioid fentanyl.

The trade court rejected those tariffs, saying they failed to meet the law’s requirement that they “deal with an unusual and extraordinary threat.” Instead of addressing the president’s stated objective of curbing illicit cross-border trafficking in people and drugs, the tariffs were designed to “create leverage” to get other governments to do so, the court said.

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The government argued that the economic emergency law’s language authorizing the president to “regulate … importation” granted him full powers over tariff rates. But the trade court disagreed, saying the law did not authorize “the President to impose whatever tariff rates he deems desirable.”

Legal experts have told The Post that the lawsuits are likely to succeed if they make it to the Supreme Court.

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“When the White House is itself touting this as the largest tax increase in American history, I think that’s going to make the justices sit back and think the Constitution gives Congress, and Congress alone, the authority to levy duties, impose tariffs and to regulate foreign commerce,” said (Tim) Meyer, who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, a Trump nominee, when he served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. READ MORE

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Excerpt from DTN Progressive Farmer: The ruling, at least temporarily, requires the administration to remove tariffs imposed on Canada, Mexico and China -- the three largest buyers of U.S. agricultural products.

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The ruling also blocks 25% tariffs Trump had imposed on Canada and Mexico over border security and fentanyl trafficking, as well as another 20% tariff on most products from China.

Effectively, the court's order removes a 30% tariff on China by blocking both sets of tariffs. Trump had declared tariffs on China would go as high as 145% but those were never set in place.

In announcing Liberation Day, Trump said at the time that his tariff policies "are standing up for farmers and ranchers" who are "brutalized by nations."

The court said, "The worldwide and retaliatory tariff orders exceed any authority granted to the president by IEEPA to regulate importation by means of tariffs. The trafficking tariffs fail because they do not deal with the threats set forth in those orders. This conclusion entitles plaintiffs to judgment as a matter of law; as the court further finds no genuine dispute as to any material fact, summary judgment will enter against the United States."

Stephen Vaden, President Trump's nominee to be Agriculture deputy secretary, sits on the International Trade Court, but he was not one of the judges who considered this case. The three judges who issued the ruling were Gary Katzmann, Timothy Reif and Jane Restani.

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Farm groups and agribusinesses have expressed concerns that Trump's tariffs on goods imported to the United States would lead to retaliation against U.S. products.

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Trump "might still be able to temporarily launch import taxes of 15% for 150 days on nations with which the U.S. runs a substantial trade deficit," the Associated Press said. "The ruling notes that a president has this authority under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974." READ MORE

Excerpt from Politico: The ruling on Wednesday came down in two cases — one filed by a group of small businesses and the other by 12 Democratic state attorneys general. There are at least five other cases challenging the tariffs pending at the Court of International Trade and other courts throughout the country (including one that dealt Trump another defeat Thursday), but Wednesday’s decision was importantly the first ruling on the merits that Trump had exceeded his authority in imposing such sweeping tariffs. It will also likely pave the way for a more definitive resolution — the administration quickly filed notices of appeal and moved to stay the ruling — perhaps going all the way up the Supreme Court.

There were recent signs of desperation on the part of the administration as the court’s skepticism became increasingly evident over the course of lengthy oral arguments in the two cases.

Late last week, Justice Department lawyers told the court that a ruling against the government would undermine the administration’s “leverage” and “unravel the complex and delicate foreign-affairs negotiations unfolding around the globe.” “Interfering with the negotiations in their present state,” DOJ added, “would create a foreign-policy disaster.”

The argument was backed by declarations from three Cabinet secretaries — Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick — along with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. The gambit — arguably a not-so-subtle form of political blackmail — evidently flopped with the three judges, who are appointees of Trump, Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan.

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To fully understand the legal headwinds that continue to face the administration, it is helpful to zero in on a 50-year-old decision that quickly emerged as a central point of contention among the parties — and that the Court of International Trade relied upon heavily in ruling against Trump.

The case in question is known as United States v. Yoshida International, which affirmed President Richard Nixon’s power to impose a 10 percent tariff on imports that he announced in August 1971, under a statute known as the Trading with the Enemy Act (TWEA). The TWEA was the predecessor statute to the International Economic Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA), which Trump invoked to support his tariffs.

Nixon justified the tariff by claiming that an overvaluation of the U.S. dollar at the time had contributed to a trade imbalance and a deficit in America’s “balance of payments” (a broader economic measure that includes both trade and capital flows). The tariff was short-lived — Nixon terminated it in December 1971 after negotiating a realignment of exchange rates with a group of developed countries — but in the meantime, U.S. importers that paid the additional tax challenged Nixon’s legal authority.

One of those companies was Yoshida — now known as YKK — which challenged the tariff on zippers imported from Japan. The company filed a lawsuit and won in the lower court, but the decision was overturned on appeal several years later. (The lower court was then known as the Customs Court, and the appellate court was known at the time as the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals. Those courts have since been renamed the Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, respectively. As a result, the decision binds the current Court of International Trade.)

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The court concluded that the tariff was legally justified under the TWEA to address the trade imbalance and pointed to language in the statute that authorized the president to “regulate” the “importation” of foreign goods in the event of an emergency. That language was carried over into IEEPA as part of a much longer list of actions permitted by the president, though that list does not explicitly mention either tariffs or taxes (a point to which we will return).

In light of the parallel statutory language in TWEA and IEEPA, the Justice Department argued that Yoshida “continues to control today” and requires the Court of International Trade to rule in favor of the Trump administration.

As Wednesday’s decision makes clear, it was not so simple.

In several crucial respects, the Yoshida decision cut sharply against the administration’s position. That put the Justice Department in the awkward — and generally unenviable — position of having to pick and choose which parts of the decision that it likes, and which parts of the decision the courts should ignore.

For starters, the Yoshida decision rejected a key proposition that is at the heart of the government’s defense of Trump’s tariffs — the notion that courts have no power to review a president’s actions under IEEPA.

The court ruled in Yoshida that each presidential action under the statute “must be evaluated on its own facts and circumstances.” The court went on to emphasize that its ruling, while favorable to the Nixon administration, was not a blanket approval of “any future surcharge of a different nature, or any surcharge differently applied or any surcharge not reasonably related to the emergency declared;” that the president’s actions under the statute “must also bear a reasonable relation to the particular emergency confronted;” and that “emergencies are expected to be shortlived.”

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Nixon’s tariff was fixed at 10 percent and in place for less than five months. Trump’s tariff framework is far more ambitious, open-ended and has been all over the place since his inauguration — with the effective dates and applicable countries, rates, exceptions and concessions under seemingly constant revision.

And if Trump and some of his advisors are to be believed, there would be no end in sight. “If President Trump succeeds like he wants to succeed,” Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro said earlier this year, “we are going to structurally shift the American economy from one over-reliant on income taxes and the Internal Revenue Service, to one which is also reliant on tariff revenue and the External Revenue Service.” That is a far cry from a five-month, supplemental 10 percent tariff like what Nixon imposed.

Two other, subtler points in the Yoshida decision made things worse for the administration.

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Under the so-called major questions doctrine, when an executive action exceeds an undefined threshold of “economic and political significance,” the justices insist on a clear delegation of authority from Congress on the matter. That does not exist in the case of Trump’s claim to sweeping, open-ended and unreviewable tariff powers.

And in overruling the Chevron doctrine last summer, the court’s conservatives emphasized that judges should not simply defer to the executive branch’s interpretation of ambiguous statutes when evaluating legal questions. READ MORE

Excerpt from Politico: A federal appeals court has temporarily reinstated President Donald Trump’s sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs as it considers the administration’s request to leave the tariffs in place while litigation over their legality continues.

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an order Thursday afternoon granting “an immediate administrative stay” of a ruling Wednesday by the U.S. Court of International Trade that found Trump could not use emergency powers in an almost 50-year-old statute to impose tariffs on imports from countries around the globe.

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The decision temporarily reimposes Trump’s sweeping 10 percent global tariffs and the paused “reciprocal” tariffs that Trump imposed on more than 60 trading partners and has used as a leverage point in trade negotiations. It also applies to his 25 percent duties on Canadian and Mexican products and a 20 percent tariff on Chinese products in response to a purported national emergency on drug trafficking.

The appeals court said the temporary stay would remain in place until it rules on the administration’s motion for a longer-term pause of the lower court decision. The stay is likely to run through at least mid-June, according to a schedule laid out by the Federal Circuit judges.

In a separate case, a federal district judge also ruled against Trump’s tariffs on Thursday. That ruling — from U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington — is not covered by the Federal Circuit’s stay, and the Trump administration’s appeal of Contreras’ ruling will go to a different federal appeals court. But Contreras put his own ruling on hold for 14 days to give the administration time to appeal. He also restricted its ultimate effect to the two companies that filed the lawsuit. READ MORE

Excerpt from AgWeb:

How could this ruling potentially impact trade? We asked Alan Brugler of Brugler Marketing that question before the appeals court weighed in. He says to answer that, you first need to ask two main questions.

“In the short run, not much. You have to assume the administration is going to appeal the ruling and the question is going to be ‘Will the appeals process result in a stay, either freezing the tariff implementation or allowing it to continue during the appeal process?’ That’s the first question,” Brugler says.

Brugler says his second question is how this could impact current trade negotiations. Just last week, treasury secretary Scott Bessent said he expects several large trade deals to be announced in the next couple of weeks.

“What does it do to the administration’s leverage on the deals that they said we were coming close to,” Brugler adds. “The EU is one example. For now, I think we have to take it with a grain of salt. We also need to remember that it does not affect some of the tariffs, such as the aluminum and steel. Those were implemented under a different section of law that had been used back in the 2017 and 2018 era. Those are still in place. So, it does offer some potential for a lot less aggressive tariff war. But again, this is probably just the first step in the overall process.” READ MORE

Biofuels Groups Optimistic About EPA’s RFS Proposal: Refute Talk of Lower Volumes

by Michelle Rook (AgWeb) Recent rumors put volumes for biomass based diesel at 4.65 billion gallons, but Paul Winters, Director of Public Affairs, Clean Fuel Alliance America says, EPA has assured them that number is false. -- ... Geoff Cooper, President and CEO, Renewable Fuels Association says the administration has been listening to their recommendations on setting volumes that encourage growth and demand.

“We recommended at least 15 billion gallon for conventional, 5.25 billion for biomass based diesel, and then when you layer on top a little bit of growth for advanced and cellulosic, you can easily see where EPA could be setting the volumes at, the total RFS volume at around 24, 25 billion RINs.”

EPA Says Rumors on Bio-Mass Based Diesel Aren’t True

Recent rumors put volumes for biomass based diesel at 4.65 billion gallons, but Paul Winters, Director of Public Affairs, Clean Fuel Alliance America says, EPA has assured them that number is false.

“They certainly have indicated that the rumor circulated last week was incorrect that the volumes would not be that low. And they do seem to understand and have definitely heard the message from our industry and the unified position on that 5.25 billion gallon volume,” he explains.

Still, Clean Fuels and 48 of its members sent a letter to EPA advocating for the 5.25 billion and reminded the agency that level was agreed upon with the American Petroleum Institute.

Cooper says that is unprecedented. “We have alignment with the oil refiners. That’s not something we’ve ever had before when we go the discussions around renewable volume obligations and the RFS. So that makes everyone’s job easier.”

OMB Holding Stakeholder Meetings

Stakeholders also have scheduled meetings with OMB through June 9 to provide comments, but EPA could fast track the process by canceling meetings to finalize the rule more quickly.

Winters says, “You know, clean fuels is would be very happy to have the rule out in public and simply forego a formal meeting with OMB.”

Either way, after OMB’s review EPA will publish the proposed rule and start a formal comment period, then take that input to craft the final rule.

Cooper says, “Administrator Zeldin has said many times, including on Capitol Hill just this week, he intends to have a final rule in place by the end of October this year, which would help, I think, restore and kind of get things back on the right timeline when it comes to the RFS.”

Zeldin also indicated EPA will be addressing a longstanding backlog of 160 plus small refinery exemption petitions. READ MORE; includes VIDEO

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Excerpt from Bloomberg/Yahoo!Finance: “If we’re going to get behind this America First policy, let’s make sure that we have a great domestic policy strategy,” said Lucas Lentsch, a North Dakota farmer who heads the United Soybean Board. “Let’s make sure we’ve got good demand here at home.”

Creating more markets at home is easier said than done. The US cattle herd is already at the lowest since the 1950s, curbing demand for crops in feed rations. That’s leaving farmers reliant on the so-called renewable volume obligation, or RVOs — a rule that’s been controversial since being enshrined into law two decades ago to safeguard energy security.

Farmers benefit from a higher biofuels mandate, but oil refiners have historically opposed it. Some of that has since changed as Big Oil invested in biofuels in recent years as part of their decarbonization efforts.

“We need a robust RVO to keep US soybeans a profitable business to be in,” said Greg Anderson, who grows the oilseed in Nebraska.

Biofuel Mandates

Agribusiness giants Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., Bunge Global SA and Cargill Inc., as well as trade groups including the Clean Fuels Alliance America want the Environmental Protection Agency to set the RVO at no less than 5.25 billion gallons for biomass-based diesel starting next year, up 60% from 2025 levels.

Farm lobby groups and US Midwestern governors also want a mandate for US ethanol of at least the 15 billion gallons currently in place.

The American Petroleum Institute is also backing the requests.

“We’re certainly doing our job to push administration to help us and help the industry,” Christopher Cuddy, ADM’s president of carbohydrate solutions, said at a BMO conference in New York this month. “The most encouraging piece for me is the fact that we’re aligned with the Petroleum Institute, which at least in my time has never happened.”

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Randall Stuewe, chief executive officer of Darling Ingredients Inc., said the previous quotas set under former President Joe Biden were far too low. The company’s Diamond Green Diesel venture with Valero Energy Corp. is a top producer of renewable fuels.

That led to a number of factory closures. Biodiesel plants in the US produced at just 51% of capacity in the year through April, while facilities that make renewable diesel — a fuel that’s chemically identical to its fossil fuel peer — ran at a rate of 72%, according to Bloomberg Intelligence’s Project Tracker.

“We used to have more demand than supply, it’s now reversed,” said Peter Zonneveld, US president for biofuels producer Neste Oyj. “Some companies are reducing run rates or shelving their investment plans for renewable fuels,” which will make it harder to curb emissions from heavy-duty industries, he said.

“It’s resulting in difficulties for the ag industry too because farmers can’t get rid of their soybeans,” Zonneveld said.

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A higher RVO is a chance to get domestic biofuels back up to normalized run rates of around 80%, said Brett Gibbs, a renewable energy analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, who estimates the mandate will need to be at least 3.9 billion gallons to bring some facilities back online.

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Sales of next season’s crops to Mexico and Japan, the second and third-largest soybean buyers, are lagging well behind historical levels for this time of year. And China continues to snap up supplies from rival Brazil.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has openly hinted at a bailout, and nearly two thirds of farmers in the March Purdue/CME barometer said aid was either likely or very likely. Still, many growers say they want to sell their crops instead of receiving aid.

“As a farmer, I’d rather receive it from the market,” said Philip Good, a Mississippi farmer who’s the chair of the United Soybean Board. “We go back to the domestic markets, and developing domestic uses.” READ MORE

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If Europe is serious about decarbonizing transport, we should be encouraging more biofuel use, not less. -- Dickon Posnett, President, European Biodiesel Board READ MORE

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by Jim Kendrick (Biofuels Digest) In China on May 21 in Nantong, China Merchants Energy Shipping launched the world’s first methanol dual-fuel roll-on/roll-off car carrier with a capacity of 9,300 vehicles, built by China Merchants Industry; the vessel is scheduled for

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Biofuels Groups Optimistic About EPA’s RFS Proposal: Refute Talk of Lower Volumes

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Bureau Veritas Strengthens Support for Wind Propulsion with Union Maritime’s Methanol-Ready Tankers

(Bureau Veritas) Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore (BV) is reinforcing its commitment to sustainable shipping by classing a series of methanol-ready oil and chemical tankers for Union Maritime, which are currently being equipped with wind propulsion systems, including Norsepower Rotor Sails™

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A New Sodium Metal Fuel Cell Could Help Clean up Transportation

by Casey Crownhart (MIT Technology Review) Fuel cells powered with the metal could provide a new source of electric power that's far more energy-dense than lithium-ion batteries. -- A new type of fuel cell that runs on sodium metal could one day

May 28, 2025 Read Full Article

New Method Promises to Upend Accounting for Short-Lived Pollutants

by Jim Giles (Trellis) Efforts to reduce methane and black carbon can deliver critical short-term benefits, according to the Global Heat Reduction Initiative. Conventional carbon accounting measures impact over 100 years, lessening the focus on short-lived drivers of global warming. The Global Heat

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Cover Crops May Not Be Solution for Both Crop Yield, Carbon Sequestration

(Cornell University/EurekAlert!) People have assumed climate change solutions that sequester carbon from the air into soils will also benefit crop yields. But a new study from Cornell University finds that most regenerative farming practices to build soil organic carbon – such as

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Lifetime Achievement Award: Ian Thomson

(Canadian Biomass) There are few people whose names are more synonymous with biofuels in Canada than Ian Thomson. Just ask Fred Ghatala, president of Advanced Biofuels Canada. “Ian is a pioneer leader in the development of Canada’s renewable and low carbon fuel

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Major Collaborative Research Study Launches to Measure Real-World Hydrogen Emissions

(Environmental Defense Fund) A new international research initiative will measure hydrogen emissions from operating infrastructure in North America and Europe, filling a gap where little empirical data exist today. With commercial hydrogen operations poised for global expansion, the new information will

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First U.S. Machine to Turn Air into Gasoline Debuts in NYC

(Aircela) In a rooftop demonstration in Manhattan’s Garment District, New York–based fuels company Aircela unveiled the first working machine in the U.S. that produces gasoline directly from air. Compact and modular, the unit combines direct air capture and on-site fuel synthesis into a

May 28, 2025 Read Full Article

Remora’s Carbon Capture Technology Targets Heavy-Duty Transportation

by Kim Kisner (SBN Detroit) Co-Founder and CEO Paul Gross Talks Tech, Scale, and Strategy -- Founded in 2020 and based in Wixom, Michigan, Remora is developing a carbon capture device designed to attach directly to semi-trucks and locomotives and collect emissions. The captured

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Bioenergy Devco Announces Name Change to BTS Bioenergy

(BTX Bioenergy/PR Newswire) Rebranding reflects the Company's history and sets the tone for its future. -- Bioenergy Devco, a leader in the design, engineering, construction, financing, and operation of advanced anaerobic digester systems, has announced that the company is now known as BTS

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California Dairy Farms Achieve Major Methane Reduction Milestone

(Dairy Cares/PR Newswire) California dairy sector is reducing 5 million metric tons of methane (CO2e) annually. -- Dairy Cares and the California dairy sector today announced a major milestone in planet-smart dairy farming. This year, the state's dairy farms will achieve an annual reduction of

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CALL FOR SPEAKER ABSTRACTS International Biomass Conference and Expo --- March 31-April 2, 2026 --- Nashville, TN DEADLINE November 21, 2025

the premier event for the biomass industry. As we continue to see growth across bioenergy sectors — from pellets to renewable natural gas to sustainable aviation fuel — this event remains the central hub for collaboration, deal-making and the advancement

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International Biomass Conference and Expo --- March 31-April 2, 2026 --- Nashville, TN

The International Biomass Conference & Expo continues to be recognized as one of the world’s leading conferences in the biomass industry. As we continue to see growth across bioenergy sectors — from pellets to renewable natural gas to sustainable aviation fuel

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Basingstoke and Deane and Hart Save 1,500 Tonnes of Carbon

by Samanta Gladkauskaite (Gazette) Two councils have saved more than 1,550 tonnes of carbon emissions by switching to a low-emission biofuel for their bin trucks. Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council and Hart District Council began fuelling their kerbside collection trucks with hydrogenated

May 28, 2025 Read Full Article

Can We Fly Guilt-Free with Britain’s New Stance on Sustainable Aviation Biofuel?

by Bhok Thompson (Green Prophet) The United Kingdom has taken a significant step in advancing sustainable aviation by approving an increase in the co-processing blend limit for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) from 5% to 30%. This decision, endorsed by the UK Ministry of

May 28, 2025 Read Full Article

New York Climate Justice Fellowship (Program Opportunity Notice 4772) DEADLINE June 30, 2025

(New York State Energy Research and Development Authority) NYSERDA seeks applications to fund and provide professional development training/mentoring for year-long, full-time fellowships. These fellowships are intended for individuals from priority populations and/or a disadvantaged community to work within organizations and businesses

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$1.5M Gift to Help ABPDU Advance U.S. Biomanufacturing

(BioSciences) Since 2011, the Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit (ABPDU) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has helped over 90 companies scale up innovative biotechnologies, advancing them from the lab to commercial relevance. Now, the ABPDU will be enhancing its efforts

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Gevo to Sell Luverne, Minnesota Ethanol Facility to A.E. Innovation; Will Retain Isobutanol Assets for Future Innovation

(Gevo/Globe Newswire) Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Agri-Energy, LLC (“Agri”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Gevo, to A.E. Innovation, LLC (“A.E.”) for $7 million. The transaction includes Agri’s

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Iowa Legislature Passes Bill to Create SAF Tax Credit

by Erin Voegele (Ethanol Producer Magazine) Iowa state lawmakers in May approved tax legislation that, in part, aims to create a tax credit to incentivize sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production within the state. The bill is now under consideration by Iowa

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RIC Energy and Siemens Partner to Jointly Develop Renewable Hydrogen, Green Ammonia, and e-Fuels

(RIC Energy) RIC Energy and Siemens have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop innovative projects in the fields of renewable hydrogen, green ammonia, and e-fuels in Spain. The collaboration will especially boost the sustainable aviation fuel (e-SAF) plant

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Construction Starts for Södra's New Plant - Becoming the World's Largest Producer of Sulphate Lignin

(Södra/CISION (Google Translation)) The sulfate lignin can also be used as a basis for new biofuels and biostimulants. -- Wednesday, May 28, marked the start of construction for Södra's new sulphate lignin factory in Mönsterås. The facility is an important step in

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McLaren Racing Announces Major Investment in Sustainable Aviation Fuel Programme in 2024 Sustainability Report

(McLaren Racing) “I’m immensely proud of what we have achieved in 2024" McLaren Racing today (May 19, 2025) publishes its annual Sustainability Report, a transparent overview of the team’s environmental and social impacts in 2024, including details of a major investment

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Cargolux and AIT Worldwide Logistics Sign Historic SAF Deal

(Cargolux) Cargolux and global freight forwarding partner AIT Worldwide Logistics have signed the largest Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) deal in their history, in collaboration with Microsoft, for the transportation of their server racks (Microsoft Cloud Logistics). This groundbreaking partnership will result

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Trade Groups Weigh in on Closure of Greenergy Biodiesel Plant in Immingham, UK

by Ron Kotrba (Biobased Diesel Daily) Greenergy announced May 20 the temporary suspension of operations at its biodiesel plant in Immingham, North East England. The company said it is conducting a strategic review to evaluate the plant’s commercial viability amid “the significant

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South Europe Ground Services Uses 100% Renewable Diesel in Ground-Support Equipment at Select Airports in Spain

(Moeve/Biobased Diesel Daily) South Europe Ground Services, the handling subsidiary of International Airlines Group operating at 38 airports in Spain, is advancing its commitment to airport decarbonization through the use of 100 percent hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO100), also known as renewable

May 27, 2025 Read Full Article

Infinium Announces Construction of Large Scale eFuels Production Facility in Texas

(Infinium) Project Roadrunner, a sustainable aviation fuel plant in West Texas, to bring skilled jobs and generate economic growth for the region -- Infinium, the world’s leading producer of commercially available eFuels, announced today that construction is underway on its second U.S.-based

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UAlbany Converting Heavy-Duty Vehicle Fleet to Renewable Diesel

(University at Albany) On Wednesday, May 28, the University at Albany will accept its first delivery of renewable diesel fuel and begin replacing petroleum diesel with the cleaner-burning, non-fossil biofuel in campus-operated vehicles and equipment. UAlbany is the first SUNY campus

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Schmid Engages in Ethanol Policy Discussions in Paris

(U.S. Grains Council) U.S. Grains Council (USGC) Multilateral Ethanol Policy Manager Linda Schmid attended the International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) Fuels Workshop in Paris to engage in discussions on the challenges and areas that call for greater policy attention to energy production

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E85 Pilot Program In Mexico Shows Positive Results

(U.S. Grains Council) During the past six weeks, 10 taxis in Monterrey, Mexico converted to Flex Fuel technology and traveled more than 43,000 miles, using in excess of 1,500 gallons of E85—gasoline blended with 85% bioethanol—cutting operating costs by more than

May 27, 2025 Read Full Article

UPM Sharpens Its Focus on Biofuels Growth Strategy and Plans to Discontinue the Rotterdam Biofuels Refinery Project

(UPM) Following extended technical, commercial and strategic evaluations UPM plans to discontinue the development of its potential second biomass-to-fuels refinery at the Port of Rotterdam. As a result, UPM plans to halt all engineering work related to the CAPEX investment in

May 27, 2025 Read Full Article

Aboveground Storage Tank (AST) Conference & Trade Show --- September 23-25, 2025 --- Long Beach, CA

The event kicks off Tuesday, September 23rd with two co-located training courses: Tanks 101 and Liquid Terminals 101—both designed to enhance your understanding of storage tank operations, safety, regulations, and maintenance. These courses are ideal for professionals seeking practical knowledge

May 27, 2025 Read Full Article

Homegrown Fuels Podcast with Keith Kor

by Sue Retka Schill (Ethanol Producer Magazine) Long time ethanol manager Keith Kor recounts the early days of ethanol production, in what would now be considered primitive facilities. READ MORE/LISTEN includes transcript

May 27, 2025 Read Full Article

Homegrown Fuels Podcast with Doug Durante

by Sue Retka Schill (Ethanol Producer Magazine) Doug Durante began working in Washington, DC, in 1977, becoming director of public affairs for the National Alcohol Fuels Commission. In 1988, he formed the Clean Fuels Development Coalition, supporting programs and policies to

May 27, 2025 Read Full Article

Homegrown Fuels Podcast with David Hallberg

by Sue Retka Schill (Ethanol Producer Magazine) Homegrown Fuels podcast features David Hallberg who began advocating for ethanol in the late 1970s as a Congressional staffer. He helped craft language for the tax credit (VEETC) that supported ethanol blending, started the

May 27, 2025 Read Full Article

Synhelion’s Solar Fuel Powers Steamboat in World First

(Synhelion) The Lake Lucerne Navigation Company (SGV) AG has used solar fuel from Synhelion for the first time. The steamboat Gallia was symbolically fueled with solar diesel from Synhelion’s industrial scale plant DAWN – a milestone for more sustainable mobility on

May 27, 2025 Read Full Article

Canada's New Energy Chief Pushes Oil Sands to Build Carbon-Capture Systems

by Brian Platt (Bloomberg/World Oil) Canada’s new energy minister said it’s critical to build carbon-capture systems for the oil sands and identified crude and natural gas exports as a major priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government. “Energy is Canada’s power,” Tim

May 27, 2025 Read Full Article

Top 5 Greenest Airlines in the USA (2025)

by Prakriti Mitra (Business Upturn) Leading the charge towards sustainable air travel, the top five greenest airlines in the USA demonstrate innovation, investment, and commitment to reducing aviation’s carbon footprint. ... In the USA, several airlines have made remarkable strides toward reducing their environmental

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Sorghum's Rise as an Alternative Feedstock Poses a Threat to Corn and DDGS

by Paola Caballeros (S&P Global) The grain gains popularity as a drought-resistant feedstock; Lower sorghum prices could reduce corn-based DDGS demand; Mexico increases US sorghum imports as China reduces demand -- Sorghum's rising availability and lower prices are putting pressure on corn demand

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Brenmiller bGen(TM) Green e-Methanol Project in Spain Secures +€25 Million Funding from European Hydrogen Bank

(Brenmiller Energy Ltd./Access Newswire) --bGen™ thermal energy storage system to be charged using renewable energy to store and provide 56 MWh of clean heat for green e-methanol production at SolWinHy Cadiz S.L. -- SolWinHy selected as one the European Union's top

May 27, 2025 Read Full Article

AM Green and Port of Rotterdam Authority to Establish Green Energy Supply Chain Enabling up to 1,000,000 Tons per Year

(Port of Rotterdam) USD 1 Billion dollar trade between India and Europe -- AM Green and the Port of Rotterdam Authority signed a Memorandum of Understanding to focus on building a green energy supply chain between India and Northwestern Europe via Rotterdam,

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Virgin Australia and Boeing Release Report on Sustainable Aviation Fuel Accounting by Independent Advisory Firm

(Virgin Australia) Virgin Australia and Boeing have today (May 27, 2025) released a report by Pollination on the challenges and opportunities of an International Book and Claim system for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) accounting. The report, completed by independent advisory firm,

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Castlerock Biofuels

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Castlerock Biofuels, in collaboration with Ensyn, holds exclusive US rights to RTP® fast thermal conversion technology. They plan a facility in Maine to produce 20 million gallons annually of Renewable Fuel Oil (FPBO) from woody biomass

May 27, 2025 Read Full Article

When the Spotlight Moves On, Does Carbon Still Matter? Looking at Big News from Pyran, Carbon Clean, HutanBio

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) We’ve rarely had a week in the bioeconomy where so much worthy advancement on carbon-smart technology won so less applause. Pyran announced that an independent cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment for its 1,5-pentanediol, confirms that Pyran’s bio-based PDO

May 27, 2025 Read Full Article

Kondayama Biofuels Investment Team Ethanol Cook Stove Training in Allen Town

by Moses Moseray (Kondayama Biofuels Investment Team) In collaboration with Empower Sierra Leone Foundation, We trained and distributed 50 ethanol cookstoves to women in the Allen Town Community, Freetown Sierra Leone. Moses Moseray with ethanol cook stoves and bottles of ethanol fuel

May 26, 2025 Read Full Article

Wallem Group Sets out Best Practice Guidance for Marine Biofuels

(Wallem Group) Wallem Group, a leading global maritime partner, has published a new whitepaper to ensure ships, ships systems and crews are fully prepared to load, store and use biofuels in everyday vessel operations. ‘Marine Biofuels: Adoption, use and best practice’ recognises the

May 26, 2025 Read Full Article

Energy Asia: Delivering Asia’s Energy Transition --- June 16-18, 2025 --- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Energy Asia is a premier thought leadership and business advocacy forum, championing Asia’s pivotal role in the global energy transition. As the “Voice of Asia”, the conference will bring together policymakers, industry captains and energy professionals to drive practical, collaborative,

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SAF APAC Summit 2025 (#SAFAPAC25) --- July 16-17, 2025 --- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The SAF APAC Summit 2025 (#SAFAPAC25), set to be held in Melbourne, Australia, is poised to be APAC's leading event for advancing sustainable aviation fuels. This summit will cover the entire SAF value chain and address the unique dynamics across the

May 26, 2025 Read Full Article

Global Cassava Sustainability Forum 2025 --- June 16-18, 2025 --- Bangkok, Thailand

This event represents a cornerstone of our “Global Network on Sustainable Bioeconomy in Agri-Business: Cassava Value Chain as a Successful Model” project. The forum aims to drive meaningful transformation across the global cassava industry through targeted knowledge exchange, innovation sharing,

May 26, 2025 Read Full Article

Gasum and Wilhelmsen Ship Management Agree FuelEU Maritime Compliance Surplus Trade through Hecla’s FuelEU Maritime Exchange

(Hecla-em) --Hecla’s FuelEU Maritime Exchange (FME) has facilitated the completion of a first of its kind deal to trade a compliance balance token through a third-party platform. --Hecla’s FME makes it easy for shipping companies turn compliance surplus into a tradeable

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Companies Behind Dairy Industry’s First Methane Targets Show Early Success

by Jim Giles (Trellis) ... Danone is also partnering with Sistema, a company that has developed a modular biodigestor that smaller farms can use to process manure into fertilizer and biogas. READ MORE Related articles Sistema.bio Signs MoU with Danone to Deploy 6,500

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EU Parliament Backs Exempting 90% of Companies from Carbon Border Levy

by Kate Abnett (Reuters) The European Parliament backed changes on Thursday to the European Union's carbon border tariff that would exempt from the scheme companies that import less than 50 metric tons per year of relevant goods. The proposed changes exclude more

May 26, 2025 Read Full Article

Renewable Materials Conference 2025: Nominees for the Innovation Award & Final Programme Unveiled

(nova-Institute) Latest update on the world's largest conference on innovative and renewable chemicals and materials, fossil-free plastics and related policies from 22-24 September 2025 in Siegburg/Cologne (Germany) -- The Renewable Materials Conference (RMC), organised by the nova-Institute, will present leading solutions and

May 26, 2025 Read Full Article

Draft Corporate Net-Zero Standard V2 Explained: Environmental Attribute Certificates Public Comment DEADLINE June 1, 2025

(Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi)) This blog outlines how the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) defines environmental attribute certificates (EACs), which includes carbon credits, and how the revised draft of the Corporate Net-Zero Standard proposes they are used. SBTi has released the

May 26, 2025 Read Full Article

Trump Could Clamp Down on EVs Even More with New Fuel Economy Rules

by Rob Stumpf (Inside EVs) Trump is targeting EVs in new fuel economy rules. ... Now, Trump's U.S. Transportation Department seems to be going after fuel economy rules that were used by the Biden administration as a key driver of zero-emission cars. Sounds

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK -- Michelle Miano

“I think it’s even more important now that New Mexico pursues actions that it can take on its own without the help of the federal government — the clean fuel standard is a prime example of that. This is a

May 26, 2025 Read Full Article

NMED Seeks Approval to Enact Clean Fuels Rule by End of the Year Public Comment DEADLINE TBD

by Danielle Prokop (Source NM/Yahoo! News) New Mexico put forward draft rules for its clean fuels program, and officials hope hearings will begin later this year. -- ... Last week, the New Mexico Environment Department proposed the Clean Transportation Fuel Program to the

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Sarawak Eyes Biofuel Revenue from Palm Oil Waste through Legal Reforms

by Lim How Pim (Borneo Post) The Sarawak government is currently reviewing existing legal provisions in a bid to put palm oil waste to better use, with the aim of promoting downstream activities and increasing revenue for the state. Premier Datuk Patinggi Tan

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Budzinski Continues Biofuel Leadership as Newly Appointed Co-Chair of Congressional Biofuels Caucus

(Office of Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (D-IL 13th)) Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) announced she will be serving as a new Co-Chair of the Congressional Biofuels Caucus. The Congressional Biofuels Caucus is made up of a bipartisan group of lawmakers dedicated to advancing policies

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Envigas and Skellefteå Kraft Eye Large-Scale Biocarbon and Pyrolysis Oil Production

(Bioenergy International) In Sweden, biocarbon and pyrolysis oil producer Envigas AB, and compatriot municipal energy utility Skellefteå Kraft AB have announced plans to jointly explore the feasibility of establishing a large-scale production facility for biocarbon and pyrolysis oil in Hedensbyn, Skellefteå. According

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Researchers in Hydrogen Engineering and Composite Materials Appointed as Part of Wrexham University’s Enterprise Engineering and Optics Centre Project

(Wrexham University) Two researchers in Hydrogen Engineering and Composite Materials have been appointed at Wrexham University, as part of the institution’s pioneering Enterprise Engineering and Optics Centre (EEOC) project. Barry Johnston has joined Wrexham University as Research Associate in Hydrogen Engineering, while Dr.

May 26, 2025 Read Full Article

Magnon, Power2X and ErasmoPower2X to Explore Development of e-Methanol at Magnon’s Industrial Complex in Puertollano

(Ence Group) • Renewable fuels: The project aims to produce 200,000 tonnes of e-methanol per year. Carbon capture: The project will capture an estimated 380,000 tonnes of biogenic CO₂ from the Magnon plant per year. An integrated value chain at the Puertollano valley: Green hydrogen

May 26, 2025 Read Full Article

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to a Public Call for Investments in Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) and Low-Carbon Shipping Fuels

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) This presentation summarizes the key information presented by Artur Yabe Milanez regarding the BNDES’s Public Call for investments in sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) and low-carbon shipping fuels. The initiative, launched in August 2024 with an initial

May 26, 2025 Read Full Article

Renewable Race Fuel: Powering Progress at 225mph

(Shell) For the third year, the NTT INDYCAR SERIES is lowering emissions by 60% as the first US-based motorsports series to power racing with Shell’s 100% renewable race fuel.* -- Back-to-Back Wins in 2024 -- It was truly a historic moment as one of

May 26, 2025 Read Full Article

What Is Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and How Does It Fit into the Renewable Energy Supply Chain?

By Timothy Worledge (Fastmarkets) Fastmarkets is due to launch a new European based sustainable aviation fuel price, but what is the significance of this renewable energy? -- Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is a renewable fuel that can replace jet fuel – derived from

May 24, 2025 Read Full Article

Exolum Invests €50 Million in Improving Infrastructure for Aviation Fuel at Barcelona-El Prat Airport

(Biofuels International) Exolum has renewed the concession for the provision of aviation fuel storage and distribution services at Josep Tarradellas Barcelona - El Prat Airport, as the successful bidder of the tender process called by AENA. This agreement, which will remain in

May 24, 2025 Read Full Article

Biodiesel’s Evolution in a Changing Renewable Fuels Market

(Biofuels International) ... The increased focus on HVO and SAF has put pressure on biodiesel producers as they compete for the same feedstocks. In certain regions, however, biodiesel has maintained a stronghold. In Brazil, for example, biodiesel is a very strong market.

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FedEx Takes Delivery of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) from Neste at LAX

(FedEx) One-year, over three-million-blended gallon deal marks the first major U.S. SAF deployment by FedEx, building upon years of successful fuel efficiency improvements in its air operations. -- FedEx (NYSE: FDX) today announced an agreement with Neste, the world’s leading producer of

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Hapag-Lloyd Achieves Bio-Methane Milestones Under ZEMBA Initiative

(Bunker Market) Hapag-Lloyd, World’s leading shipping liner company, has reached significant milestones in its efforts to decarbonize the shipping industry under the Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA) initiative. The company successfully completed its bio-methane bunkering operations, marking a major step toward the

May 24, 2025 Read Full Article

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to ICF’s SAF and Carbon Outlook

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ICF forecasts LCFS prices potentially hitting ~$100/ton by early 2026, trending toward $150 by 2032. They anticipate D3 RIN prices recovering, pushing above $3/RIN in 2026 once the 2023 Set Rule lapses. Policy issues include Treasury’s

May 24, 2025 Read Full Article

EU Greenlights Nearly €1 Billion for Green Hydrogen Projects

by Aiden Green) (CarbonCredits.com) The European Union (EU) has approved €992 million in funding for 15 renewable hydrogen projects in 5 countries across the European Economic Area. This investment, under the EU Innovation Fund, is a key part of Europe’s clean