by Andy Balaskovitz (MiBiz) ... “Any reduction in the statutory amount is a roadblock to biofuels like ethanol,” said Jim Zook, executive director of the Michigan Corn Growers Association. “By failing to set (blend) levels at the statutory amount, it appears the
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Back TO HOMERFS Rule Undercuts U.S. Commitment to Reducing GHGs
(25 x '25) It was with some ironic bemusement that biofuel advocates read the headlines from the mainstream media that said the Obama administration “raised’ the biofuel blending requirements under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) rule announced this week by
December 03, 2015 Read Full Article
Columbia Journalism Dean Fires Back At ExxonMobil: Allegations ‘Unsupported By Evidence’
by Jordan Chariton (The Wrap) Steve Coll disputes oil company’s allegations that postgraduate students’ story misled regarding Exxon ignoring risks of climate change Columbia University Journalism school’s Dean of Students Steve Coll fired back on Tuesday at Exxon Mobil’s allegations that
December 02, 2015 Read Full Article
Will Congressional Opposition to RFS Rule Lead to Reform?
by Tiffany Stecker (E&E/Governors' Biofuels Coalition) The ink on U.S. EPA’s final rule for the renewable fuel standard is barely dry, but long-standing foes in Congress are already aiming to block the biofuels program. Yesterday, Rep. Bill Flores (R-Texas), who spearheaded
December 01, 2015 Read Full Article
Obama Dials Back Ethanol Fuel Standard
by Tim Devaney (The Hill) The Obama administration set new standards Monday for ethanol levels in fuel, enraging competing industries that had battled for months to influence the contentious regulations. The final renewable fuel standard (RFS) unveiled by the Environmental Protection Agency
December 01, 2015 Read Full Article
EPA Bumps up US Renewable Fuel Standard Volumes for 2015-2016, in Final Ruling
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Washington, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced final volume requirements under the Renewable Fuel Standard program today for the years 2014, 2015 and 2016, and final volume requirements for biomass-based diesel for 2014 to
December 01, 2015 Read Full Article
EPA Improves Final RVOs
(Growth Energy) Final rule breaks through so-called blend wall -- Growth Energy and its members are pleased to see that the President and the Environmental Protection Agency have recognized the need to move the renewable fuel industry past the so-called blend
November 30, 2015 Read Full Article
RFA: EPA’s Final RFS Rule Puts Future of Biofuels & Climate Policy in Hands of Oil Industry
(Renewable Fuels Association) Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) renewable volume obligations (RVOs) for 2014, 2015 and 2016 that refiners have to meet in blending biofuels with gasoline. The agency increased the blending
November 30, 2015 Read Full Article
EPA’s Final RVO Rule and the Myth of Falling Gasoline Demand
by Geoff Cooper (Renewable Fuels Association) One of the oil industry’s favorite talking points in its campaign to repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) is the argument that “gasoline demand is falling,” and thus refiners have fewer gallons of gasoline
November 17, 2015 Read Full Article
Sit on the RINs
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ... The US Environmental Protection Agency has discovered the following way of interpreting Energy Independence and Security Act. To wit, if the transportation fuels supply chain — controlled by guess whom — does not build renewable
November 16, 2015 Read Full Article
Anti-Ethanol Ad Sparks Outrage Among Ohio’s Corn, Ethanol Producers
by Karen Kasler (Ohio Public Radio) Ohio’s corn and ethanol industry is fighting back at ads it says are misleading and funded by big oil. ... The ad comes from the American Council for Capital Formation. It’s a conservative organization that
November 13, 2015 Read Full Article
Fuels America Launches TV Campaign to Counter Anti-RFS Letter
(Fuels America/Ethanol Producer Magazine) Fuels America is announcing a significant television campaign today calling out Rep. Peter Welch (VT-AL) for signing on to a Congressional letter that was authored by oil industry lobbyists. The first phase of the campaign includes 250
November 13, 2015 Read Full Article
Is Obama Doing Inhofe's Dirty Work on Biofuels?
by Paul Alexander (Huffington Post) ... "That's the biggest risk we face -- not acting," Obama said. "Today, we're continuing to lead by example. Because ultimately, if we're going to prevent large parts of this earth from becoming not only inhospitable but
November 12, 2015 Read Full Article
Oil Lobby Had Hand in House Lawmakers’ Anti-Ethanol Note to EPA
by Mark Drajem (Bloomberg) An odd-bedfellows group of lawmakers — led by an oil-industry ally from Texas and a progressive Vermonter — raised a familiar-sounding concern about ethanol in a letter this week to EPA chief Gina McCarthy. Their argument that the Environmental
November 09, 2015 Read Full Article
Ethanol Reduces Emissions: Clean Fuels Development Coalition
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Hungary, Clean Fuels Development Coalition Executive Director Douglas Durante said as a way for ethanol to find value beyond limitations of government imposed limits, both in the EU and the U.S., the focus should be on providing
November 09, 2015 Read Full Article
New York Is Investigating Exxon Mobil for Allegedly Misleading the Public about Climate Change
by Chris Mooney (The Washington Post) The state of New York is investigating whether Exxon Mobil misled the public and investors about the risks of climate change, a move sought by environmentalists that could signal a broader reckoning with the
November 06, 2015 Read Full Article
House Science Committee Hearing Exposes Fundamental Flaws in RFS Opponents Attacks
(Renewable Fuels Association) Today (November 3, 2015), the House Science, Space and Technology committee held a joint hearing of the subcommittees on Environment and Oversight titled “Renewable Fuel Standard: A Ten Year Review of Costs and Benefits.” Renewable Fuels Association
November 04, 2015 Read Full Article
Fuels America: How Did the Oil Industry Suddenly Become Obama Administration Climate Policy Advisors?
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Washington, Fuels America will launch a seven-figure TV and digital ad campaign Friday morning depicting President Obama’s choice of who to listen to when it comes to the Renewable Fuel Standard: his own experts
November 02, 2015 Read Full Article
Everyone’s Favorite Climate Change Fix
by Cristina Maza (The Christian Science Monitor) Economists, officials, and executives across the globe increasingly support carbon pricing to stem the rise of greenhouse-gas emissions. Can it work? --- ... “Pricing carbon obviously adds a cost to our production and our products,”
October 29, 2015 Read Full Article
Oil Lobby Launches New Campaign against Ethanol Mandate
by Devin Henry (The Hill) The American Petroleum Institute (API) will run a “multifaceted advocacy campaign” against the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) for the next month ahead of a deadline for the Obama administration to finalize three years of standards
October 29, 2015 Read Full Article
Big Oil's Not So Smart Campaign
(Minnesota Bio-Fuels Association) ... If Big Oil truly believed its product (oil) was better than ethanol, why not launch a campaign on the greatness that is oil. Perhaps Big Oil could tell us how oil doesn't raise food prices. Nevermind that recent
October 28, 2015 Read Full Article
Kyle Nixon: EPA Biofuels Rule Could Hurt Economy
by Kyle Nixon (Novozymes/Omaha.com) Opinion: Instead of sending money to overseas oil producers, the biofuels sector has provided financial stability for rural farming communities right here at home. At the end of November the Environmental Protection Agency is due to issue
October 28, 2015 Read Full Article
President Obama Is Turning His Back on the Renewable Fuel Standard
by former Senator Jim Talent (The Gazette) I’m old enough to remember when energy first became a national security issue during the original energy crisis in the early 1970s. That was the first time America realized that we were dependent
October 27, 2015 Read Full Article
EPA OIG Plans to Look at RFS Lifecycle Impacts Should Be Good for Biofuels
(25 x '25) The announcement by EPA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) that it will begin preliminary research on lifecycle impacts of the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) should be good news for the biofuels industry, providing the agency’s investigators
October 23, 2015 Read Full Article
Exxon Sowed Doubt About Climate Science for Decades by Stressing Uncertainty (Part 6)
by David Hasemyer and John H. Cushman Jr. (Inside Climate News) Collaborating with the Bush-Cheney White House, Exxon turned ordinary scientific uncertainties into weapons of mass confusion. ... No wonder: in the opening days of the oil-friendly Bush-Cheney administration, Exxon's chief lobbyist had
October 23, 2015 Read Full Article
Highlighting the Allure of Synfuels, Exxon Played Down the Climate Risks (Part 5)
by John H. Cushman Jr. (InsideClimate News) In the 1980s, Exxon lobbied to replace scarce oil with synthetic fossil fuels, but it glossed over the high carbon footprint associated with synfuels. Early in the 1980s, ... Exxon believed oil supplies could not
October 23, 2015 Read Full Article
Exxon's Business Ambition Collided with Climate Change Under a Distant Sea (Part 4)
by Neela Banerjee & Lisa Song (Inside Climate News) Throughout the 1980s, the company struggled to solve the carbon problem of one of the biggest gas fields in the world out of concern for climate impacts. In 1980, as Exxon Corp.
October 23, 2015 Read Full Article
Exxon Confirmed Global Warming Consensus in 1982 with In-House Climate Models (Part 3)
by Lisa Song, Neela Banerjee, David Hasemyer (Inside Climate News) The company chairman would later mock climate models as unreliable while he campaigned to stop global action to reduce fossil fuel emissions. Steve Knisely was an intern at Exxon Research and Engineering
October 23, 2015 Read Full Article
Lack of Strong RFS Policy Could Put Michigan Jobs at Risk
(Farmers Advance) Jeff Sandborn, a Portland farmer and member of the board of the National Corn Growers Association, highlighted a new nationwide study demonstrating the economic impact of ethanol production, noting that ethanol is tied to more than 22,000 Michigan
October 21, 2015 Read Full Article
Bernie Sanders Calls For Federal Investigation Of Exxon
by Emily Atkin (Think Progress) Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wants ExxonMobil investigated by the Department of Justice. In a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Tuesday, Sanders charged the oil giant of engaging in a cover-up
October 21, 2015 Read Full Article
RFA Statement on Big Oil Anti-RFS Campaign
(Renewable Fuels Association) The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) released the following statement regarding an ad campaign that is being launched by Smarter Fuel Future to call on Congress and the administration to repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). “The oil industry
October 19, 2015 Read Full Article
Climate Scientist Faces Backlash for Urging Investigation of Fossil Fuel Companies
by Katherine Bagley (Inside Climate News) A climate scientist who was the lead signatory on a letter urging President Obama to launch a federal investigation into whether fossil fuel companies "knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change"
October 14, 2015 Read Full Article
Oil CEOs Differ on Carbon Strategy, Highlighting Industry Divide
by Sarah Kent And Amy Harder (Morningstar) The chief executives of Royal Dutch Shell PLC and ExxonMobil Corp. laid out contrasting visions this week for reducing fossil-fuel emissions, illustrating a divide between American and European energy companies ahead of a
October 14, 2015 Read Full Article
Grassley on the Oil Export Ban, Attempt to Diminish Ethanol
(Office of Senator Chuck Grassley) Note: This week, the Senate Banking Committee voted to lift the ban on U.S. oil exports. The committee defeated an amendment that would have eliminated the corn ethanol blending requirements under the federal Renewable Fuel
October 04, 2015 Read Full Article
Michigan State University Partners with ExxonMobile to Advance Biofuel Research
(Michigan State University) A new $1 million relationship between Michigan State University and ExxonMobil will expand research designed to progress the fundamental science required to advance algae-based fuels. David Kramer, MSU’s John Hannah Distinguished Professor in Photosynthesis and Bioenergetics at the
October 02, 2015 Read Full Article
Total Plans $500 Million Annual Investment in Renewable Energy
by Javier Blas (Bloomberg Business) French oil company targets `fast growing' solar and biofuels; Total already owns majority stake in U.S. solar firm SunPower -- Total SA plans to invest $500 million a year in renewable energy, a step by Europe’s
September 24, 2015 Read Full Article
Exxon's Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels' Role in Global Warming Decades Ago (Parts 1 and 2)
by Neela Banerjee, Lisa Song and David Hasemyer (Inside Climate News) Top executives were warned of possible catastrophe from greenhouse effect, then led efforts to block solutions. ... This untold chapter in Exxon's history, when one of the world's largest energy
September 17, 2015 Read Full Article
Why Activists Are Pushing a ‘Supply Side’ Strategy for Fighting Climate Change
by Chris Mooney (The Washington Post) Even as President Obama further amplifies his rhetoric about addressing climate change, a coalition of environmental organizations released a letter Monday seeking to push his administration much further still. Not content with recently announced curbs on emissions
September 15, 2015 Read Full Article
Jerry Brown: “Oil Lobby Gutted California’s Climate Bill”
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In California, Gov. Jerry Brown called the derailment of efforts to cut gasoline cosumption “a well-financed oil industry effort”, but Brown vowed to keep pushing on efforts to reduce the state’s petroleum usage. From California, the
September 14, 2015 Read Full Article
Jerry Brown, Kevin de Leon Abandon Legislative Push to Require 50 Percent Cut in Gasoline Use
by David Siders and Jeremy B. White (Sacramento Bee) Major setback for California governor’s climate agenda; Decision comes amid resistance from moderate Democrats; Brown pledges to use executive power to reduce emissions In a major setback for Gov. Jerry Brown’s climate agenda,
September 10, 2015 Read Full Article
Dumping Energy Stocks Might Cost Harvard $100 Million a Year
by Simon Constable (The Street) Harvard's $32.7 billion endowment would generate significantly lower returns if climate-change activists convince the university to abandon fossil fuel investments, according to a new study. Such a strategy might cost the fund more than $100 million
September 09, 2015 Read Full Article
World’s Largest Producer Of Industrial Enzymes Comes Out Swinging For Biofuel (CT Exclusive Interview)
by Tina Casey (Clean Technica) The global biotech firm Novozymes has been sailing under the CleanTechnica radar, but we did take note earlier this year when Novozymes CEO Peder Holk Nielsen had some pithy things to say about the global
September 09, 2015 Read Full Article
More Job Losses Coming To U.S. Shale
by By Gaurav Agnihotri (OilPrice.com) ... A recent Bloomberg report stated that U.S. driller’s debts stood at $235 billion at the end of first quarter of 2015, which is quite worrying. Does this mean that the U.S. oil sector is likely to
August 05, 2015 Read Full Article
Top 6 Myths Driving Oil Prices Down
by By Leonard Brecken (OilPrice.com) ... Earlier in the year I documented half a dozen media reports which turned out to be 100 percent false. Now I expose another half dozen in just the past few weeks. Prices remain unchanged as a
August 04, 2015 Read Full Article
Climate Deniers Uncovered
by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com) A paper published by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), “The Climate Deception Dossiers,” reveals decades of corporate misinformation campaigns by the fossil fuel industry. The paper focuses on seven deception dossiers, or collections containing nearly
August 03, 2015 Read Full Article
Big Oil’s Mouthpiece Distorts the Facts
by Geoff Cooper (Renewable Fuels Association/The Hill) Sofie E. Miller may have left the Charles Koch Institute in 2012, but she clearly continues to do the bidding of her former employer and the rest of the oil industry (“RFS hurts
July 30, 2015 Read Full Article
Big Oil and Big Corn Blitz EPA on Biofuels Plan
by Chris Prentice (Reuters) U.S. farmers, biofuel makers, and oil companies have mounted last-ditch efforts to push regulators to overhaul a controversial plan for biofuel use, homing in on the price Americans pay for gasoline mixed with such fuels as
July 28, 2015 Read Full Article
More unused oil, gas wells linger without permanent seals increasing risk
by Jeff Donn (Associated Press/Los Angeles Daily News) Five years after the Obama administration promised to move swiftly to permanently plug unused oil and gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico, even more shafts are lingering for longer periods with
July 20, 2015 Read Full Article
Fossil Fuel Industry Must 'Implode' to Avoid Climate Disaster, Says Top Scientist
by Damian Carrington (The Guardian) ‘The age of carbon is over’ and a transition to a greener economy is inevitable, says Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, adviser to the German government and Pope Francis ... Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, an adviser to the German government
July 13, 2015 Read Full Article
Why Is EPA Proposing to Continue Delaying the Arrival of Advanced Biofuels?
by Brent Erickson (Biofuels Digest/Biotechnology Industry Organization) ... Stakeholders are all well aware of the RFS (Renewable Fuel Standard) waiver provision that allows EPA to rewrite the statutory volumes after 2016, if it is required to waive volumes by more than
July 08, 2015 Read Full Article
Renewable Fuel Policy Lagging
by Ken McCauley (Garden City Telegram) ... American farmers stepped up when called upon, increasing production levels of corn ethanol to meet the growing standards. We restructured our production plants and ways of life to help wean the United States off
July 07, 2015 Read Full Article
As EPA Hands Down New Rules on Renewable Fuel Standard, Critics Say 'Blend Wall' a Fiction Created by Big Oil
by Paul Alexander (Huffington Post) ... For the first time since it was conceived a decade ago, the Obama Administration has proposed weakening the RFS -- a blow to the green movement, the biofuels business, and especially the ethanol industry. The reduced
July 01, 2015 Read Full Article
U.S. Oil Glut An EIA Invention?
by Leonard Brecken (OilPrice.com) In the latest weekly production data from the EIA, on the back of recent March revisions, the U.S. managed to post a 76,000 barrel per day increase in the lower 48. Production from Alaska fell by 61,000 barrels
June 29, 2015 Read Full Article
Keystone XL Pipeline Debate: Canadian Oil Sands Crude Produces Greater Emissions Than Conventional Oils, DOE Study Finds
by Maria Gallucci (International Businesss Times) ... A new study funded by the U.S. Department of Energy found crude extracted from Canada’s oil sands region leads to greenhouse gas emissions that are 20 percent higher on average than emissions from conventionally
June 29, 2015 Read Full Article
Looking at Next-Generation Biofuel, Converting Waste into Fuel: Brekelmans of Shell
by Anilesh S Mahajan (Business Today) Shell Global's Harry Brekelmans is very optimistic about the India story. Brekelmans sits on the board of the Executive Committee of Royal Dutch Shell PLC and is the director in-charge of projects & technology. He,
June 22, 2015 Read Full Article
EPA Renewable Fuel Standard Management Scrutinized at Hearing
by Anna Simet (Biomass Magazine) U.S. EPA Acting Assistant Administrator Janet McCabe fielded dozens of hard questions and endured heavy scrutiny during a June 18 hearing held to discuss the agency’s management of the federal renewable fuel standard (RFS). Chairing the hearing
June 19, 2015 Read Full Article
Big Oil Companies Want a Price on Carbon. Here’s Why.
by Ben Geman (National Journal) Natural-gas profits have Shell and BP, among others, calling for increased use of carbon-emissions fees ahead of a make-or-break climate summit in Paris. Six oil and gas giants based in Europe have delivered an unusual joint
June 02, 2015 Read Full Article
Peterson: RFS Announcement a Setback for Rural America; Grassley: EPA, Administration Fail Consumers on Biofuels
(Office of Congressman Collin Peterson) House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson today said the Renewable Fuels Standards (RFS) released today by the EPA will set back production of domestic renewable fuels and hurts the rural economy. Peterson’s statement is
May 29, 2015 Read Full Article
Biofuels Decision May Signal Big Oil’s Influence in White House | Commentary
by Anne Weismann (Roll Call/ Campaign for Accountability) On June 1, the Environmental Protection Agency is scheduled to release its new plan for implementing the Renewable Fuel Standard. ... When the number finally comes out, the American people might find out
May 19, 2015 Read Full Article
Thrive, Survive, Jive or Take Five: Who Is Weathering the $50 Oil Storm in Biofuels, and How?
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ... Survive -- First-Gen ethanol producers. So-so. Corn prices have fallen, and though margins have been compressed and gone negative in some cases, balance sheets remain strong and the margin outlook is improving and positive
May 14, 2015 Read Full Article
Biofuel Developers Like Neste Oil, Diamond Green Can Thrive Despite Cheap Oil
(Lux Research/Market Wired) While alternative fuels like biofuels had obvious appeal when oil prices were well over $100 a barrel, the plummet in oil prices to $50 levels can threaten the cost-competitiveness of alternative fuels. However, many developers have planned
May 13, 2015 Read Full Article
US Taxpayers Subsidising World's Biggest Fossil Fuel Companies
by Damian Carrington and Harry Davies (The Guardian/MSN.com) The world’s biggest and most profitable fossil fuel companies are receiving huge and rising subsidies from US taxpayers, a practice slammed as absurd by a presidential candidate given the threat of climate change.
May 12, 2015 Read Full Article
Study Shows: Big Oil Is Chicken Little over Ethanol
by Ryan Koopmans (Des Moines Register) ... For the last decade, Big Oil has been running nervously through the halls of the U.S. Capitol and the EPA, screaming — to anyone who will listen — that the Renewable Fuel Standard is
April 06, 2015 Read Full Article
Group of Lawmakers Continues to Seek Ways to Block Biofuels, Through Any Means Possible
(Energy and Environmental Study Institute) On March 23, a letter signed by 18 members of Congress to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture asked the subcommittee to include “language to limit continued government support for corn ethanol,” primarily by limiting
March 30, 2015 Read Full Article
Ethanol Debate Could Come to a Head in Washington This Year
by Christopher Doering (Des Moines Register) The ethanol and oil industries have dug in for what could be a pivotal year for the future of the renewable fuel mandate in Washington, with the victor poised to add jobs and reap millions
March 27, 2015 Read Full Article
Senator Cruz's Legislation Promotes Big Oil, Denies Consumer Choice
(Growth Energy) In response to S. 791, the American Energy Renaissance Act, legislation that was introduced last week by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), which would seek to further our addiction to fossil fuels and eliminate consumer choice by repealing the
March 27, 2015 Read Full Article
Advanced Biofuels Community Leaders Meet: Persistent and Dogged in the Throes of a Tough Slog
by Joanne Ivancic* (Advanced Biofuels USA) Every year, the annual Washington, DC gathering of leaders in the advanced biofuels world at the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference sports a different "vibe." In the early days of the late 2000's, the atmosphere
March 16, 2015 Read Full Article
Fuels America Launches 'Clean, Secure, American Energy' Campaign
(Fuels America/Ethanol Producer Magazine) As America marks the 102nd anniversary of tax breaks for oil companies this week, the Fuels America coalition is launching a “Clean, Secure American Energy” campaign that will highlight the success of the renewable fuel standard (RFS).
March 09, 2015 Read Full Article
Investors Ask Oil Companies to Disclose Refineries' Risks from Climate Change
by Siri Srinivas (The Guardian) Shareholders ask the five largest US oil companies – Valero, Exxon Mobil, Marathon Petroleum, Phillips 66 and Chevron – to disclose the risks their operations and facilities face from rising sea levels and storm surges. ... In letters
March 02, 2015 Read Full Article
South Dakota Driver Wins Renewable Fuels Association’s E85 “Post Your Price” Contest
(Renewable Fuels Association) Today, the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) is pleased to announce Scott LeBrun as the winner of RFA’s E85 “Post Your Price” contest. The contest, which was announced last October and concluded just before midnight on Tuesday, allowed
February 20, 2015 Read Full Article
Looking Down the Road at Biofuels, Coal, Gas, and Oil
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) “The short-term picture of a well-supplied oil market should not disguise the challenges that lie ahead as reliance grows on a relatively small number of producers,” warns the International Energy Agency. Why all the gloom amidst boom
February 06, 2015 Read Full Article
Declaring “The Truth Matters”, Biodiesel Leaders Say Policy Makers Need to Consider the Facts to Get the Renewable Fuels Standard Back on Track
(National Biodiesel Board) The National Biodiesel Conference and Expo opens with a fiery speech by the industry’s chief spokesperson. Arguing that federal policy makers must see through the false attacks by renewable fuels opponents and provide certainty for their advanced biofuel
January 20, 2015 Read Full Article
BP’s Exit from Cellulosic Ethanol: the Assets, the Auction, the Process, the Timing, the Skinny
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) The complete details on BP’s exit and the considerable physical and intellectual assets available for acquisition, in part or in whole. As BP continues to reel from its oil leak capital calls and the impact
January 19, 2015 Read Full Article
Jack Gerard Delivers 2015 State of American Energy Address
(American Petroleum Institute) ... As part of this event, we publish our report on the State of American Energy, but this year’s report is different, because for the first time it includes contributions from all major sources of energy: solar, nuclear,
January 09, 2015 Read Full Article
2014 Brought Ethanol Both Ups and Downs
by Andy Eubank (Hoosier Ag Today) This year has been one of both good news and bad news for the ethanol industry. Renewable Fuels Association CEO Bob Dinneen says there was enough positive happening to call this an extraordinarily exciting
December 30, 2014 Read Full Article
Lawsuit Puts Biodiesel Use under Spotlight
(China Daily/Ecns.cn) Yingding Biofuel Technology Co Ltd, the privately owned Chinese biodiesel producer, has won its monopoly case against the country's biggest oil refiner, China Petrochemical Corp Ltd. The company had accused the industry giant of blocked sales of its fuel
December 23, 2014 Read Full Article
10 Biggest Bioeconomy Blockbuster Stories of 2014 (Americas)
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) POET-DSM, Abengoa, Enerkem, GranBio, Raizen plant openings lead the list; REG’s M&A campaign, EPA’s RFS debacle, are other key trends. They said that cellulosic fuels were “five years away, and always will be,” but five major
December 23, 2014 Read Full Article
Early Slowdown Signs Emerge for U.S. Oil States after Crude Slide
by Tim Reid (Reuters) ... In Houston, Texas, the first oil industry layoffs have been announced, with realtors there predicting a sharp decline, up to 12 percent, in home sales next year. Alaska's 2015 fiscal year budget revenue forecast will have
December 15, 2014 Read Full Article
E85 Prices Shock EPM Reader
by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine) Big Oil isn't above stooping to dirty tricks to mislead consumers into thinking E85 isn't a good fuel to buy, including by trying to price the fuel right out of the market. We recently received
December 11, 2014 Read Full Article
4 Minutes with…Larry Sullivan, Consultant, Lawrence D. Sullivan & Company
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ... The industry must come to grips with the disconnect between feedstock producers and companies that convert feedstocks to products. In petroleum, the oil and gas producers enjoy higher returns than the oil refiners fitting
December 09, 2014 Read Full Article
Congress Should Not Fix What Isn’t Broken
by Brent Erickson (Biotechnology Industry Organization) The underlying legal constructs of the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) remain in working order, despite the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) failure to issue a final 2014 rule and its other regulatory missteps. Over the
December 09, 2014 Read Full Article
BP to Make Major Job Cuts, Sell Assets as Energy Prices Fall: Lignocellulosic Business Goes on the Block
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Butamax, KRL, Vivergo, sugarcane ethanol business not impacted by cuts; consolidation to Brazil; San Diego research center, Highland feedstock operation also up for sale. In the UK, news broke from BP headquarters that the company has
December 09, 2014 Read Full Article
Inside OPEC Room, Naimi Declares Price War on U.S. Shale Oil
by Alex Lawler, Amena Bakr and Dmitry Zhdannikov (Reuters) Saudi Arabia's oil minister told fellow OPEC members they must combat the U.S. shale oil boom, arguing against cutting crude output in order to depress prices and undermine the profitability of
December 01, 2014 Read Full Article
Guest Opinion: Ethanol Policy and the Economy
by Paul Kenney (North Platte Bulletin) Recent reports from the University of Nebraska clearly document the impressive economic benefits that occur when the corn, cattle and ethanol industries are efficiently integrated. Economists describe the economic “bounce” we realize in the
November 21, 2014 Read Full Article
Shell: Expects to Be Producing Advanced Biofuels at Scale, in US, by End of Decade
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Shell VP Matthew Tipper, at ABLCNext: “We will likely begin manufacture in the southeast United States. We plan to be operational by late this decade. “We believe our best bet is woody biomass and energy
November 21, 2014 Read Full Article
IEA: ‘The Cost of Fossil Fuels to an Economy Is Not Reduced by Subsidies; It Is Just Redistributed’
by Katherine Tweed (GreenTechMedia) Global subsidies for fossil fuels totaled nearly $550 billion in 2013. Countries around the globe have committed to reducing subsidies for fossil fuels, primarily oil and gas. But that commitment is not being put into practice quickly
November 14, 2014 Read Full Article
Rich Countries Subsidising Oil, Gas and Coal Companies by $88bn a Year
(The Guardian) US, UK, Australia giving tax breaks to explore new reserves despite climate advice that fossil fuels should be left buried Rich countries are subsidising oil, gas and coal companies by about $88bn (£55.4bn) a year to explore for new reserves,
November 11, 2014 Read Full Article
Toxic Chemicals in Gasoline Are Killing Americans
by Larry Pearce (The Hill) In 1990, Congress passed the Clean Air Act Amendments and directed the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce the dangerous chemical additives in gasoline. Today, 24 years later, this law has yet to be enforced
November 05, 2014 Read Full Article
BlueFire Plays the China Card? Ex-Im Bank of China Issues $270M LOI for Mississippi Biofuels Project
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In California, BlueFire Renewables has received a Letter of Intent from The Export Import Bank of China (China EXIM) to provide up to $270 million in debt financing for its 19 million gallon bioenergy project
October 27, 2014 Read Full Article
4 Minutes With…Joost Dubois, Director Branding & Communications, Bio-based Products, DSM
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ... I am responsible for developing the communication & branding approach to ensure delivery of DSMâs messages on the bio-renewable age to all internal & external stakeholders, including marketing communications and external affairs management. The
October 20, 2014 Read Full Article
New Report Sheds Light on the Old "Food Vs. Fuel" Bioenergy Debate
by Jennifer Runyon (RenewableEnergyWorld.com) There was never any conflict between using corn for food or for ethanol since corn growers send most of their product to animal feedlots. That product isn’t even meant for human consumption anyway. It was an abundant year
October 14, 2014 Read Full Article
Advanced Ethanol Makers Are Trying To Give Big Oil A Run For Its Money
by Ken Silverstein (Forbes) Big Oil can’t put the brakes on a new renewable fuels factory in Iowa — one that will seek to supplement petroleum with next-generation cellulosic ethanol. The “Project Liberty” facility will consume 285,000 tons of biomass
October 10, 2014 Read Full Article
New RFA Case Study: Evidence of E85 Price Gouging?
(Renewable Fuels Association) E85 retailers in the St. Louis area may be purposely price gouging Missouri drivers, according to an in-depth case study released today by the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA). During the 2014 summer driving season, average E85 prices
October 10, 2014 Read Full Article
Novozymes Looks beyond the 'Fantasy Fuel' It Helped to Turn into Reality
by Sabina Zawadzki (Reuters) * Three of four advanced biofuel plants use Novozymes enzymes * Biomass conversion could transform Novozymes in future * Biofuel sector in continuing U.S. regulatory battle When Denmark's Novozymes first wondered in 2000 how its mass-produced enzymes could be used
October 09, 2014 Read Full Article
State of the Algae Industry: 10 Top-Level Commercial Leaders Look at the Path to Scale
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) 10 leaders, 10 enterprises, 10 paths to scale — what’s really key to making algae a commercial crop for feed, fuel and pharma, soon? This week at the Algae Biomass Summit, a pair of key sessions
October 02, 2014 Read Full Article
EPA Should Uphold Law on Ethanol
by Bartholomew L. Mcleay (Kansas City Star) ... Congress led rural America to believe strict volume purchase requirements in RFS for corn ethanol, for example, would keep them safe. The law is clear. RFS is not to be reduced through 2022
October 01, 2014 Read Full Article
PUMP, Documentary on Oil Monopoly, to Hit Theaters in September
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In New York, PUMP, the latest documentary feature film from Joshua Tickell and Rebecca Harrell Tickell, will be making its long awaited premiere this September in specially selected theaters around the country. The initial presentations take
July 28, 2014 Read Full Article
Reassessment of Inter-related Biofuel, GHG and FFV Policies Needed
(25 x '25) Reports out of Washington this week that the Obama administration’s lengthy delay in releasing a final 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) biofuel blending rule due to a White House desire to re-evaluate the blending requirements in context
July 18, 2014 Read Full Article
Oil Lobby Turns Focus to EPA in Ethanol Fight
by Timothy Cama (The Hill) The American Petroleum Institute (API) is focusing on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its fight to reduce the ethanol blending mandate, conceding that there’s little short-term hope in congressional action. Bob Greco, API’s director of downstream
July 18, 2014 Read Full Article
U.S. Senators Press for Probe of Report that Oil Companies Blocked Ethanol
by Ayesha Rascoe (Reuters) Two U.S. farm-state Senators on Wednesday urged federal regulators to investigate allegations raised by a biofuel trade group that the oil industry uses "strong arm tactics" to prevent widespread use of higher blends of ethanol in gasoline. A
July 10, 2014 Read Full Article
Pain at the Pump: Exxon, BP, ConocoPhillips, Chevron & Shell Earn “F” in Consumer Choice Report Card
(Renewable Fuels Association) A new “Consumer Choice Report Card” released by the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) grades some of the largest, most well-known retail gasoline chains based on whether they are providing consumers with alternatives to regular gasoline that cost less,
July 09, 2014 Read Full Article
BP June 2014 Statistical Review of World Energy: 53 Years of Oil Left
by Robert Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA) BP’s 63rd annual Statistical Review of World Energy was recently released. Some key findings. Oil Prices Stay Above $100/Barrel for Third Year In the face of these disruptions and heightened risks to supply, average oil
July 09, 2014 Read Full Article
Don’t Turn Your Back on the RFS
by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com) With no end in sight on the turmoil in Iraq and oil prices and gas prices on the rise as a result, Americans United for Change (AUFC) have launched a new ad campaign encouraging the U.S.
July 03, 2014 Read Full Article
The Greensome Foursome: POET, Novozymes, Abengoa, NexSteppe on the Industry Outlook for 2014
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) As several major cellulosic biofuels ventures head for scale in 2014, we look at the companies, the major barriers (as they see them) for further capacity-building, sources for future investment, and a focus on feedstock. In
July 02, 2014 Read Full Article
CREW Requests Investigation Into Industry Influence on RFS
(Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics/Biomass Magazine) Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has requested U.S. EPA Inspector General Arthur Elkins investigate whether the Carlyle Group and Delta Airlines improperly influenced the EPA’s proposed renewable fuel standards (RFS). The proposed standards actually
July 01, 2014 Read Full Article
The Myth and Reality of Biodiesel Feedstock Availability
by Ron Kotrba (Biodiesel Magazine) Since its commercial inception in the 1990s, the biodiesel industry has faced obstacles from all sides. The technical merits of the fuel have been challenged time and time again. Manufacturing costs and fuel pricing have been
June 17, 2014 Read Full Article
Oil Industry Kills California Assembly Bill to Support Biofuel Expansion
by Peter Waldman (Bloomberg BusinessWeek) The oil industry did some intellectual gymnastics last week over California’s low-carbon fuel standard, a 2007 mandate that gasoline refiners reduce the carbon intensity of their transportation fuels 10 percent by 2020. After arguing for
June 12, 2014 Read Full Article
Majority of Americans Support the RFS
by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association/Ethanol Producer Magazine) A recent poll of 1,000 Americans shows 65 percent support the renewable fuel standard, writes Bob Dinneen, president and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association. And, 78 percent favor requiring auto makers to
May 14, 2014 Read Full Article
New TV Ad Exposes Saudi Oil Money Bankrolling RFS Smear Campaign
(Americans United for Change/Biodiesel Magazine) Pro-renewable fuel standard, pro-American jobs groups Americans United for Change and VoteVets.org held a press call April 30 to reveal damaging IRS documents showing that Saudi oil money is clearly helping finance the millions of dollars
May 07, 2014 Read Full Article
Ag Secretary Blames Oil Industry for RFS Attacks
by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com) ... “The oil industry has made a concerted, organized, well-financed attack on the Renewable Fuel Standard,” said (Agriculture Secretary Tom ) Vilsack when asked about the EPA’s proposal to lower volume requirements for the RFS. “A lot of
May 07, 2014 Read Full Article
The American Ethanol Industry Needs to Innovate to Avoid Disaster
by Maxx Chatsko (Motley Fool) The United States is the world's leading ethanol producer, accounting for nearly 62% of world production. It holds down the top spot by sporting 211 ethanol production facilities with a combined nameplate capacity of 14.6
May 06, 2014 Read Full Article
Why Renewable Fuel Standard Matters
by Jess Oestmann (The Hays Daily News) When it comes to developing alternatives to fossil fuels and foreign oil, should the United States move forward or backward? That's the issue before the federal Environmental Protection Administration as it decides whether to reverse
April 18, 2014 Read Full Article
Old Math Casts Doubt on Accuracy of Oil Reserve Estimates
by Asjylyn Loder (MSN Money/Bloomberg) Jan Arps is the most influential oilman you’ve never heard of. In 1945, Arps, then a 33-year-old petroleum engineer for British-American Oil Producing Co., published a formula to predict how much crude a well will produce
April 03, 2014 Read Full Article
Push Continues for Greater Scrutiny on Petroleum Coke in Detroit and Beyond
by David Muller (MLive.com) U.S. Rep. Gary Peters, D - Bloomfield Hills, joined a counterpart in Illinois on Wednesday to call on the Environmental Protection Agency to investigate the best methods for storing and transporting petroleum coke, as well as
March 21, 2014 Read Full Article
National Biodiesel Day Celebrates Growth in America's Advanced Biofuel
(National Biodiesel Board) Biodiesel Offers Renewable Alternative to Fuel Economy You wouldn’t be reading this if it weren’t for diesel power. Diesel engines are responsible for moving the majority of goods, including electronics, from manufacturer to consumer. And more than ever
March 18, 2014 Read Full Article
National Farmers Union Discusses 2014 Priorities
by Jerry Hagstrom (AgWeek) The National Farmers Union will try to increase its membership and fight for the preservation of country-of-origin labeling for red meat, the Renewable Fuel Standard and fair trade agreements in 2014, NFU President Roger Johnson said
March 18, 2014 Read Full Article
USDA Wants Ethanol Available Nationwide
by Jerry Hagstrom (AgWeek) Higher grade levels of ethanol need to be available outside the Midwest and the U.S. Department of Agriculture will help make that possible, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said. Higher grade levels of ethanol need to be available outside
March 18, 2014 Read Full Article
Scientists Urge CARB to Revisit LCFS Land Use Change Penalties
by Geoff Cooper (Renewable Fuels Association) According to the Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) and other media organizations, 14 scientists and researchers submitted a letter to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) on March 6 urging the agency to meaningfully reduce its
March 11, 2014 Read Full Article
Budget Proposal Extends Biofuel Tax Credit, Cuts Oil Subsidies
by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine) President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2015 budget proposal released March 4, calls for extending a tax credit for cellulosic biofuels and puts forward the idea of cutting billions in fossil fuel subsidies. ... The tax credit for cellulosic biofuels
March 05, 2014 Read Full Article
Why We Are Producing Biofuels
by Robert C. Brown and Tristan Brown (The Gazette) In the face of criticism about ethanol, delays in the commercialization of advanced biofuels and the recent development of domestic supplies of fracked gas and petroleum, some people are asking, “Why are
March 04, 2014 Read Full Article
Arming for a Fact-Based Fight Over Ethanol
by John Davis (DomesticFuel.com) It’s not always fact-based arguments proponents of ethanol are up against when battling Big Oil. But that’s why it’s all more important to make sure you have good facts on your side in the fight. Farmers
March 04, 2014 Read Full Article
Mark Dayton and Terry Branstad: Don’t Mess with the RFS
by Mark Dayton and Terry Branstad (Winona Daily News) We are governors from neighboring states and different political parties. We don’t agree on everything, but we stand united in our belief that our nation needs a robust Renewable Fuel Standard
February 24, 2014 Read Full Article
Big Oil to Ethanol: Build Your Own Dang Distribution, If You Think E85 Has Blend-Wall Busting Potential
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Reform, repeal or compete: the options laid out for ethanol by Big Oil by Marathon’s Product Supply & Optimization Director in a frank keynote at the National Ethanol Conference. The RFA’s Geoff Cooper and ISU’s
February 20, 2014 Read Full Article
Ethanol Tariff Induces Debate at NEC
by Tom Bryan (Ethanol Producer Magazine) It is rare that a conference panel needs to be truly moderated, but the rabble-rousing conversation that ensued between international ethanol industry representatives at the National Ethanol Conference kept Bliss Baker busy Tuesday morning.
February 19, 2014 Read Full Article
Big Oil, Bad Air: Fracking the Eagle Ford Shale of South Texas
(The Center for Public Integrity, InsideClimate News and The Weather Channel) ...With more than 50 wells drilled within 2½ miles of their home, the days when the Buehrings could sit on the deck that Shelby built and lull away an
February 18, 2014 Read Full Article
Keep Our Tax Breaks: We Only Make $93B in Profit
by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com) Dear Congress, Please keep our millions of dollars in tax breaks in place. We only make $93 billion in collective profit per year. This is not enough money to operate our businesses and overcharge our customers.
February 13, 2014 Read Full Article
The Oil Industry's Fight to Kill Renewable Fuels—and Why It May Win
by Elizabeth Douglass (InsideClimate News) The American oil industry could be on the verge of winning its war on the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), as the Obama administration weighs changes that could severely undermine the nation's most successful—and most
February 11, 2014 Read Full Article
Bring Out Your Dead! As Renewable Equities Soar, Integrated Oilcos Sputter
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) What’s going on – aren’t biofuels supposed to be dead, and fracking changing everything forever in oil & gas? Yet, tough times for growth at the public oil companies, while bellwether renewable fuel equities are
February 07, 2014 Read Full Article
Sapphire Energy And Phillips 66 To Advance Commercialization Of Algae Crude Oil
(Sapphire Energy/PR NewsWire) Agreement to Co-Process Algae Crude Oil with Conventional Crude Oil and Complete Fuel Certifications Sapphire Energy, Inc., one of the world leaders in algae-based Green Crude oil production, and Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX), an integrated energy manufacturing and logistics
December 10, 2013 Read Full Article
RFS Needs to Be Protected
by Bill Northey (The Gazette) ...The renewable fuels industry has the capacity to produce well beyond the levels set by the EPA. What they need now is fair access to the fuel distribution system, which is unfortunately controlled by the
December 09, 2013 Read Full Article
Renewable Fuel Standard; Petitions for a Waiver Published in Federal Register
(Federal Register/Environmental Protection Agency) EPA has received a number of petitions for a waiver of the renewable fuel standards that would apply in 2014. The American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) submitted a joint
December 02, 2013 Read Full Article
Big Oil Reaps $23 Billion Windfall - In One Day
(Americans United for Change) What a difference a day makes for Big Oil. The oil industry scored a big victory on Friday, November 15 as the U.S. EPA released a draft rule that – if allowed to stand – rolls
November 25, 2013 Read Full Article
Iowa Governor Makes Case to Washington on Ethanol Requirements
by Christopher Doering (Des Moines Register) Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad made an aggressive push last week to defend the country’s ethanol policy during three calls with members of the Obama administration as the White House considers making changes to the
November 07, 2013 Read Full Article
Wall Street Demands Answers From Fossil Fuel Producers on 'Unburnable' Carbon
by Elizabeth Douglass (InsideClimate News) Groundbreaking initiative is forcing an investor rethink: What's the value of fossil fuel stocks if companies must leave reserves in the ground A well-heeled coalition of investors is asking top fossil fuel companies to calculate the
October 25, 2013 Read Full Article
It's Proper Oversight, Not Bullying
by Senator Charles Grassley (The Wall Street Journal) Letter to editor: In response to you editorial "The Ethanol Enforcers" (Oct. 8): It's no secret that Big Oil has done nearly everything possible to keep ethanol out of the marketplace. Why? Because it
October 21, 2013 Read Full Article
Analyzing the Impacts of Big Oil’s RFS “Dream Scenario”
by Geoff Cooper (Renewable Fuels Association) ...Slashing the “renewable fuel” portion of the RFS from 14.4 BG to 13.0 BG could have the following impacts: 1. Corn Prices Sink and Farm Income Falls Cutting the requirement by 1.4 BG would reduce demand for
October 18, 2013 Read Full Article
Column: Ethanol Mandates Are Working for the Economy
by Adam Monroe (Gaston Gazette) The Gazette’s Oct. 4 editorial says the nation’s renewable fuel mandate – called the “RFS” – was “intended to reduce dependence on foreign oil, make emissions cleaner and decrease gasoline prices.” Contrary to the writers’
October 14, 2013 Read Full Article
Report: US Oil Growth Having Limited Effect on Energy Security
by Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Fuel Fix) ... According to the analysis by Roubini Global Economics and Securing America’s Future Energy, the nation’s heavy reliance on petroleum fuels threatens to undo U.S. gains in efficiency and oil and gas production. “Heavy oil dependence still renders the country
October 14, 2013 Read Full Article
Shell Biofuels Take Vehicles Back to the Future
by Zain Shauk (Fuel Fix) ... The fuel, which Shell has produced from waste and inedible crops through at least two different methods, is being developed at a test plant in Houston and a small-scale demonstration project in suburban Chicago. “I
October 04, 2013 Read Full Article
Ethanol Requirements Good, Not Bad, for America's Economy, Energy Security
by Pam Johnson (Fox News) Opinion: ...That critique has been around for years. But it doesn't jibe with the facts. Indeed, Big Oil's call to loosen the nation's ethanol requirements is misguided. Corn-based fuel has proven to be a clean-burning
September 23, 2013 Read Full Article
How Big Poultry Sided with Big Oil
By Reid Detchon (The Baltimore Sun) Our ability to break our dependence on foreign oil is threatened by the effort to repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard Oil is essential to our economic and national security because our transportation system runs on
September 12, 2013 Read Full Article
Kansas Ethanol Future at Crossroads
(Seattle PI/Associated Press) Ethanol producers say they are running up against market and regulatory pressures that are putting a crimp on the industry's future, despite lower prices for a key commodity to produce the fuel. The ethanol industry is distilling enough product
September 09, 2013 Read Full Article
GRAY: Critics Driving Spurious Campaign against Ethanol
by C. Boyden Gray (The Washington Times) ANALYSIS/OPINION: A media campaign is underway to malign a cleaner, cheaper challenger to gasoline’s virtual monopoly on transportation fuel. If it succeeds, this campaign will deprive American drivers of the next generation of high-octane,
August 28, 2013 Read Full Article
Difficult but Important Conversation at a Craft Fair
by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine) Talking to someone that has negative views about the ethanol industry isn't always easy. But if the conversation stays respectful it's possible for both parties to come away with a little better understanding of
August 27, 2013 Read Full Article
The U.S. Tight Oil Boom: Geopolitical Winner or Long-Term Distraction?
(PR NewsWire/American Security Project) New ASP Report examines geopolitical effects of the surge in U.S. oil production The American Security Project released a new report analyzing the geopolitical effects of the boom in tight oil production. The major findings are that the recent surge in
August 22, 2013 Read Full Article
Reflections on Hot Biofuel Issues: August 2013 Pull Off Those Big Oil Blinders!
by Tim Rudnicki (Minnesota BioFuels Association) Race horses can’t remove their blinders, but thoughtful, engaged people can remove their metaphorical blinders to understand energy issues and ideas that surround them. When it comes to fueling our motor vehicles, big oil would
August 22, 2013 Read Full Article
The Need for the Renewable Fuel Standard
by Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) ...The state of Iowa is proving that our farmers can simultaneously produce the food, feed, fuel and fiber that our country needs. During the past 30 years, we’ve witnessed tremendous growth in the renewable biofuel industry.
August 19, 2013 Read Full Article
Biofuels At A Crossroads
by Mike DeVito (PlanetForward) Can biofuels play a significant part in the fuel market by 2030? In partnership with National Geographic’s Great Energy Challenge, we ask some of the experts in the biofuels arena what it will take to make it happen, and
August 19, 2013 Read Full Article
Big Oil Already Pushing for Partial Waiver of 2014 RFS Volumes
by Erin Voegele (Ethanol Producer Magazine) One week after the U.S. EPA finalized the 2013 volume requirements for the renewable fuels standard (RFS), the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers and American Petroleum Institute are already gearing up to fight the 2014 RFS standards.
August 14, 2013 Read Full Article
Pioneers Get the Arrows, Settlers Get the Gold
by Mike Bryan (Ethanol Producer Magazine) ...In the years ahead, as cellulose, algae, sweet sorghum and other promising feedstocks emerge, corn will take its rightful place as the pioneer of this industry. As the saying goes, the “Pioneers get the
August 13, 2013 Read Full Article
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