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USDA Office Told to Use ‘Weather Extremes’ instead of 'Climate Change'

by Devin Henry (The Hill)  Officials at a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) office told staffers to avoid the term “climate change” in their communications and use language like “weather extremes” instead, The Guardian reported Monday. According to emails obtained by The Guardian, officials told

August 08, 2017 Read Full Article

National Study Puts Timeline on Impact of Sea-Level Rise in Maryland and Virginia

by Joe Heim (The Washington Post)   On Maryland’s Eastern Shore, rising seawater levels and chronic flooding threaten to disrupt daily life, damage homes and businesses, and swallow land in the relatively near future, according to a new study. For

July 25, 2017 Read Full Article

Published Study Identifies When Hundreds of Coastal Communities Will Face Inundation, Possible Retreat

(Union of Concerned Scientists)  Meeting Paris Agreement Goals Could Spare Many Communities from This Fate  --  More than 90 U.S. communities already face chronic inundation from rising seas caused by climate change, and the number could jump to nearly 170

July 12, 2017 Read Full Article

ICAO and Airlines Reinforce Support for CORSIA Following US Decision to Quit Paris Climate Agreement

(GreenAir Online)  ...  The sustainable alternative aviation fuels resolution approved at the AGM calls on governments to implement policies to accelerate the deployment of such fuels, including the creation of the appropriate regulatory framework to further the development of production

June 15, 2017 Read Full Article

Teachers and Parents: Are You Teaching Climate Change?

by Amy Harmon (The New York Times)  Last week I wrote about a teacher, James Sutter, who is teaching the basics of climate change — the planet is warming and humans are primarily responsible — in a Ohio high school

June 14, 2017 Read Full Article

Scholarships Available for Summer Institute for Climate Change Education — June 26-28, 2017 — St. Paul, MN

We are excited to be able to offer scholarships to attend Climate Generation: A Will Steger Legacy’s Summer Institute for Climate Change Education in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 26-29, 2017. We are able to offer this scholarship due to the

May 31, 2017 Read Full Article

Tackling Climate Change Will Boost Economic Growth, OECD Says

by Anmar Frangoul (CNBC)  A new report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says that the integration of measures to fight climate change into economic policy will aid economic growth, both in the medium and long term. The

May 24, 2017 Read Full Article

Rising Conservative Voices Call for Climate Change Action

by Saskia de Melker and Laura Fong (PBS News Hour)  STEPHANIE SY: In the rising Eco-Right movement, you could say these are the Eco-Righteous. EVANGELICAL MARCHERS: Hey, hey! ho, ho! Fossil fuels have got to go! STEPHANIE SY: Among the throngs of environmentalists

May 15, 2017 Read Full Article

OPINION: Reflections on the Marches for Science and Climate

by Joanne Ivancic* (Advanced Biofuels USA) 200,000 people joined the People's Climate March in Washington, DC on April 29, 2017; with another 100,000 at sister marches around the country. 40,000 Marched for Science on Earth Day in the rain in

May 08, 2017 Read Full Article

CCS CEO Identifies Conditions Needed to Achieve Climate Goals

(Center for Climate Strategies)  Tom Peterson, President and CEO of Washington-DC based Center for Climate Strategies, joined an expert panel of thought leaders at a Pace University-sponsored policy colloquium to discuss “Foundations and Principles for a New Era of Environmental

April 26, 2017 Read Full Article

Changes to Energy Dept. Websites Downplay Renewables as a Replacement for Fossil Fuels

by Chelsea Harvey (The Washington Post)  The Energy Department is changing its website to cut down on Obama-era language touting renewable energy sources as a climate-friendly replacement for fossil fuels, according to reports from an environmental watchdog group. ... the department’s website now focuses

April 25, 2017 Read Full Article

Scientists Made a Detailed “Roadmap” for Meeting the Paris Climate Goals. It’s Eye-Opening.

by Brad Plumer (Vox)  ... They start with the big picture: To hit the Paris climate goals without geoengineering, the world has to do three broad (and incredibly ambitious) things: 1) Global CO2 emissions from energy and industry have to fall in

March 24, 2017 Read Full Article

Bloomberg G-20 Poised to Signal Retreat From Climate-Change Funding Pledge

by Joe Ryan (Bloomberg) Draft statement encourages private funding for climate change; Previous communique emphasized strong government support  --  Finance ministers for the U.S., China, Germany and other members of the Group of 20 economies may scale back a robust

March 13, 2017 Read Full Article

Do Scott Pruitt’s Statements on CO2 and Global Warming Misrepresent Scientific Consensus?

by Alex Kasprak (Snopes)  EPA administrator Pruitt told CNBC that he does not agree that carbon dioxide is "a primary contributor to the global warming that we see," arguing that scientists are still debating the issue. ... While climate science is, indeed,

March 13, 2017 Read Full Article

Who's Still Fighting Climate Change? The U.S. Military

by Laura Parker (National Geographic)  Ten times a year, the Naval Station Norfolk floods. The entry road swamps. Connecting roads become impassable. Crossing from one side of the base to the other becomes impossible. Dockside, floodwaters overtop the concrete piers, shorting

February 08, 2017 Read Full Article

Trump Team May Emphasize Climate Science Uncertainty

by Scott Waldman (E&E News/Climatewire)  ... The Trump administration landing team at NOAA may focus on data used by the agency to formulate its climate research, calling into question the accuracy of temperature measurements that inform the public's understanding of global

February 05, 2017 Read Full Article

In America’s Heartland, Discussing Climate Change Without Saying ‘Climate Change’

by Hiroko Tabuchi (The New York Times)  ... Here in north-central Kansas, America’s breadbasket and conservative heartland, the economic realities of agriculture make climate change a critical business issue. At the same time, politics and social pressure make frank discussion complicated.

February 02, 2017 Read Full Article

Trump Administration Backs off Plan to Scrub Climate Pages from EPA Website

by Brady Dennis and Juliet Eilperin  (The Washington Post)  The Trump administration on Wednesday backed away from plans to take down some climate-change information from the Environmental Protection Agency’s website, which employees said had been planned for this week. But political appointees

January 26, 2017 Read Full Article

Trump Administration Tells EPA to Cut Climate Page from Website: Sources

by Valerie Volcovici (Reuters)  U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to remove the climate change page from its website, two agency employees told Reuters, the latest move by the newly minted leadership to erase ex-President Barack

January 25, 2017 Read Full Article

Perry's Time to Shine Today

by Anthony Adragna (Politico's Morning Energy)  PERRY PARTY: Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry finally has his day in the spotlight this morning to make his case for running the Energy Department. Given the agency’s mishmash of responsibilities — which outgoing

January 19, 2017 Read Full Article

Unlike Trump, Americans Want Strong Environmental Regulator

by Chris Kahn (Reuters/Ipsos)  More than 60 percent of Americans would like to see the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's powers preserved or strengthened under incoming President Donald Trump, and the drilling of oil on public lands to hold steady or drop,

January 18, 2017 Read Full Article

Scientists Have a New Way to Calculate What Global Warming Costs. Trump’s Team Isn’t Going to Like It.

by Chelsea Harvey (The Washington Post)  How we view the costs of future climate change, and more importantly how we quantify them, may soon be changing. A much-anticipated new report, just released by the National Academy of Sciences, recommends major

January 13, 2017 Read Full Article

Why You Should Care about Low Carbon Fuels and Vehicle Initiatives

by Tammy Klein (Future Fuel Strategies/OurEnergyPolicy.org)  Citizens and policymakers in many countries have never been more committed to combating climate change across all sectors. One high-emitting sector that is often overlooked, when compared to industry and manufacturing, is transportation. Transport

December 19, 2016 Read Full Article

Unlocking Willpower and Ambition to Meet the Goals of the Paris Climate Change Agreement (Part One): Shifting Needs of Law, Policy, and Economics

(Center for Climate Strategies) Since 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties (COP) used the term ambition formally in agreements to implement activities and address the need for expanded environmental goals and aspirations. This can be likened

December 01, 2016 Read Full Article

Argonne Researchers Study How Reflectivity of Biofuel Crops Impacts Climate

by Joan Koka (Argonne National Laboratory)  ... The new analysis, published in The Royal Chemistry Society's Energy & Environmental Science, incorporates the additional effect of changes in reflectivity, or “albedo.” Albedo effects sum up the amount of incoming solar energy that

November 21, 2016 Read Full Article

Big Oil Pledges $1 Billion for Gas Technologies to Fight Climate Change

by Karolin Schaps and Ron Bousso (Reuters/Yahoo! News)  Some of the world's biggest oil companies, including Saudi Aramco and Royal Dutch Shell , pledged on Friday to invest $1 billion to develop climate-friendly technologies as a global deal to wean the

November 05, 2016 Read Full Article

Six Charts Show Why No One Is Talking about Climate Change

by Jeremy Deaton (Planet Forward/Nexus Media)  If you’re like the average American, you are probably worried to some degree about climate change. But odds are you don’t spend a lot of time talking about it. At least that’s what the data show. Social

November 04, 2016 Read Full Article

Investors Warn Car Industry over Climate Change

by Terry Macalister (The Guardian)  Car manufacturers told they must address climate change by switching to low-emission models − or face a sell-off of their shares, reports Climate News Network  --  Major investors have warned the automotive industry it needs

October 18, 2016 Read Full Article

We’re Placing Far Too Much Hope in Pulling Carbon Dioxide out of the Air, Scientists Warn

by Chelsea Harvey (The Washington Post)  ... This is largely a market problem, according to Howard Herzog, a senior research engineer and carbon capture expert at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “There’s no doubt you can do it,” he said. “We have coal

October 13, 2016 Read Full Article

What a Donald Trump EPA Will Look Like with Climate Change Skeptic Myron Ebell at the Helm

by Paul Raeburn (Newsweek)  ... (Myron) Ebell, the director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and a prominent climate-change skeptic, was chosen at the end of September to head the Environmental Protection Agency’s transition team

October 04, 2016 Read Full Article

World Needs Transport Biofuels

by Bliss Baker (Ethanol Producer Magazine/Global Renewable Fuels Alliance)  ... The transport sector is one of the largest contributors of greenhouse gases (GHGs), estimated to be approximately 25 to 30 percent of global emissions, but has the lowest renewable energy share

September 29, 2016 Read Full Article

When It Comes to Science, Trump and Clinton Have Common Ground — But Not Much

by Brady Dennis (The Washington Post) Earlier this summer, the folks behind ScienceDebate.org sent the presidential candidates a list of 20 questions that likely won't garner much airtime in the televised debates this fall. They asked about climate change, mental health, space exploration, vaccinations, antibiotic-resistant

September 14, 2016 Read Full Article

Jill Stein Calls for ‘Green New Deal’ to Address Climate Change

by Devin Henry (The Hill)  ... Climate change, she (Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein) said during a National Press Club event on Tuesday, is an “emergency expounded by racial disparities. … We call for a joint solution that solves these two

August 25, 2016 Read Full Article

Hillary Clinton's Climate and Energy Policies, Explained

by David Roberts (Vox)  ... I'm going to break this down as a series of numbered lists — not one, not two, but five lists of three: The three key facts the campaign took as starting points The three overarching goals of

August 01, 2016 Read Full Article

Doing More (and Better) with Less: 2016 Global Agribusiness Forum Shows the Ways to Provide Food and Bioenergy, with Sustainability, for an Increasing Population

by Lais Thomaz* and Dan Quadros** (Advanced Biofuels USA) With diverse and dynamic programming involving agribusiness, food safety, nutrition, sustainability and bioenergy, the 2016 GAF achieved its mission to gather producers, companies and academia to discuss the importance of agribusiness supply

July 26, 2016 Read Full Article

New Documents Reveal Denial Playbook Originated with Big Oil, Not Big Tobacco

(Center for International Environmental Law)  Industry documents show common playbook is decades older than previously recognized  --  New research by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) not only confirms that the tobacco and fossil fuel industries used a shared

July 20, 2016 Read Full Article

GOP Platform Proposes Turning EPA into a Commission

by Eric Wolff, et al. (Politico Morning Energy)  ... The Republican Platform 2016 offers a fresh plan for an old GOP target: it calls for converting the EPA into a bipartisan commission. As Pro's Alex Guillén writes, the platform says that

July 19, 2016 Read Full Article

The Paradox of American Farmers and Climate Change

by Beth Kowitt (Fortune Magazine)  Some U.S. farmers are skeptical of climate change, even though they’re among the most affected by it -- ... A survey conducted by Iowa State Professor J. Arbuckle and Purdue University professor Linda Prokopy of 5,000

July 01, 2016 Read Full Article

Top Science Groups Tell Climate Change Doubters in Congress to Knock It Off

by Jason Samenow (The Washington Post)  ... The effort to draft the letter was spearheaded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), whose leader, Rush Holt — a former member of Congress, vigorously promoted its message. “Climate change is real and

July 01, 2016 Read Full Article

Reconciling Food Security and Bioenergy: Priorities for Action

by Keith L. Kline, Siwa Msangi, Virginia H. Dale, Jeremy Woods, Glaucia M. Souza, Patricia Osseweijer, Joy S. Clancy, Jorge A. Hilbert, Francis X. Johnson, Patrick C. McDonnell, Harriet K. Mugera (Global Change Biology: Bioenergy) ...  Understanding the nexus of food security, bioenergy sustainability, and resource management facilitates achievement of the 2030

June 15, 2016 Read Full Article

Bloomberg Task Force Should Recommend Companies Be Required to Stress Test Their Business Plans against Risks of Climate Change Actions and Impacts

( London School of Economics and Political Science)  Companies that fail to plan for business scenarios in a low-carbon economy risk decline or even bankruptcy, according to a submission to the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures published today (PDF) (6

June 13, 2016 Read Full Article

Donald Trump Just Made an Extremely Important Promise. It’s One of His Worst Yet.

by Greg Sargent (The Washington Post)  Believe it or not, Donald Trump has now made a very important policy statement. Introducing what he billed as an “energy plan,” Trump promised to “cancel the Paris Climate Plan.” Unlike so much of what

May 31, 2016 Read Full Article

Smoke & Fumes

(Center for International Environmental Law)  This is a story about how the world’s most powerful industry used science, communications, and consumer psychology to shape the public debate over climate change. And it begins earlier—decades earlier—than anyone suspected. Explore our documents and

May 22, 2016 Read Full Article

Big Oil Could Have Cut CO2 Emissions In 1970s — But Did Nothing

by Chris D'Angelo (The Huffington Post)  New documents show the industry chose to prioritize costs over the planet.  In 1963, Esso (now Exxon Mobil) patented a design for a “novel and highly efficient electrode“ for use in fuel cells —

May 20, 2016 Read Full Article

This Scientist Just Changed How We Think about Climate Change with One GIF

by Chris Mooney (The Washington Post)  Ed Hawkins spends his days doing, you know, climate science. A professor at the University of Reading in the UK, he has published widely on the overturning circulation in the north Atlantic Ocean, as well

May 12, 2016 Read Full Article

Hillary Clinton's Climate and Energy Policies, Explained

by David Roberts (Vox.com)  Media coverage of the Democratic primary has not shed much light on Hillary Clinton's proposals for climate change and clean energy policy.  But oh, she has proposals. Lots of them! I read the white papers. And

May 10, 2016 Read Full Article

There’s One Group Not Ready to Ditch the Donald: Ethanol Producers

by Mark Drajem (Bloomberg)  Bob Dinneen, president of the Renewable Fuels Association, says he’s confident that the next president — whether Donald Trump, or Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton — would be fine for the biofuel industry. ... Both Trump and Clinton advocated

May 10, 2016 Read Full Article

University of Maryland Publishes Study: Considering the Cost of Clean: Americans on Energy, Air Quality and Climate

(University of Maryland Program for Public Consultation) ... To find out what Americans would recommend when given facts and arguments, the Program for Public Consultation at the University of Maryland developed an in‐depth survey instrument called a ‘policymaking simulation’ to be used for

May 04, 2016 Read Full Article

Half of U.S. Conservatives Say Climate Change Is Real

by Eric Roston (Bloomberg)  Trump and Cruz reject global warming, while more Republicans see it as a threat.  --  The percentage of conservative Republicans who consider global warming a threat shot up 19 points in two years, to 47 percent, according

May 03, 2016 Read Full Article

The U.S. Oil and Gas Boom Is Having Global Atmospheric Consequences, Scientists Suggest

by Chelsea Harvey (The Washington Post)  Scientists say they have made a startling discovery about the link between domestic oil and gas development and the world’s levels of atmospheric ethane — a carbon compound that can both damage air quality and contribute

April 28, 2016 Read Full Article

RIMS 2016: Sea Level Rise Will Be Worse and Come Sooner

by Don Jergler (Insurance Journal)  ... Sea levels could rise by much more than originally anticipated, and much faster, according to new data being collected by scientists studying the melting West Antarctic ice sheet – a massive sheet the size of

April 25, 2016 Read Full Article

New EPA Stats Confirm: Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Far Exceed Prior Estimates

(Environmental Defense Fund)  Higher Baseline Plus Year-on-Year Increase Make Sector the Top Emitter over Ag  --  The oil and natural gas industry has moved into first place as the highest sources of U.S. methane emissions, according to a long-awaited inventory

April 18, 2016 Read Full Article

Investors with $6 trillion in Assets Back ExxonMobil Climate Change Resolution: UK Church Fund

by Simon Jessop  (Reuters)  Institutions managing $6 trillion in assets plan to back a call for U.S. oil major ExxonMobil to disclose the impact of climate change policy on its business, one of the organizers of the vote said On

April 18, 2016 Read Full Article

Coal Companies’ Secret Funding of Climate Science Denial Exposed

by Elliott Negin (Union of Concerned Scientists/Huffington Post)  According to recent press reports, Peabody Energy — the nation’s largest investor-owned coal company — is now on the verge of bankruptcy. Among the many consequences: The company’s court-ordered disclosures are likely

April 12, 2016 Read Full Article

Putting a Price on Carbon: Ensuring Equity

by Noah Kaufman, Michael Obeiter and Eleanor Krause (World Resources Institute)  Putting a Price on Carbon: Ensuring Equity finds that the revenues form a carbon price can be used to address regional disparities and ensure that unfair burdens are not imposed

April 08, 2016 Read Full Article

A Heated Mirror for Future Climate

by Richard B. Alley (Science Magazine)  Climate has always changed naturally, and this is not good news when contemplating a human-forced future. The natural responses have been as large as, or larger than, those simulated by leading models for shorter time

April 08, 2016 Read Full Article

Observational Constraints on Mixed-Phase Clouds Imply Higher Climate Sensitivity

by Ivy Tan, Trude Storelvmo, Mark D. Zelinka (Science Magazine)  How much global average temperature eventually will rise depends on the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS), which relates atmospheric CO2concentration to atmospheric temperature. For decades, ECS has been estimated to be between

April 08, 2016 Read Full Article

The Problem With Hillary Clinton Isn’t Just Her Corporate Cash. It’s Her Corporate Worldview.

by Naomi Klein (The Nation) Clinton is uniquely unsuited to the epic task of confronting the fossil-fuel companies that profit from climate change. ... The Clinton camp really doesn’t like talking about fossil-fuel money. ... The very suggestion that taking this money could impact Clinton’s

April 07, 2016 Read Full Article

Investigation Broadens into whether Exxon Mobil Misled Public, Investors on Climate Change

by Brady Dennis (The Washington Post)  More than a dozen state attorneys general gathered in New York earlier this week, ostensibly to announce their support for President Obama’s efforts to combat global warming and to underscore their intention to collaborate on investigations

March 31, 2016 Read Full Article

In U.S., 73% Now Prioritize Alternative Energy Over Oil, Gas

by Zac Auter  (Gallup)  Seventy-three percent of Americans say they prefer emphasizing alternative energy, rather than gas and oil production, as the solution to the nation's energy problems. This marks the highest percentage of Americans prioritizing alternative energy since Gallup

March 25, 2016 Read Full Article

Efforts to Link Climate Change to Severe Weather Gain Ground

by Warren Cornwall (Science Magazine)  Scientists are tying climate change to individual cases of extreme weather with increasing confidence and speed. Although people have long said it's impossible to blame climate change for any single weather event, that's no longer the

March 21, 2016 Read Full Article

US, Canada Pledge Cooperation on Paris Climate Accord, Clean Energy, Methane Leaks

by Gavin Bade (Utility Dive)  ... A key part of the climate mitigation strategy will be reducing emissions of methane — a greenhouse gas over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide — from oil and gas operations. In the statement, the two nations

March 14, 2016 Read Full Article

Include Climate Change in the Debates

by Helen Mountford (New Climate Economy/Miami Herald) Letter to Editor:  None of the 16 presidential debates so far have taken on climate change as a major focus. As candidates from both sides head to Florida for some of the last

March 09, 2016 Read Full Article

Republican Jay Faison Launches Super PAC to Boost Clean-Energy Candidates

by Rebecca Ballhaus (The Wall Street Journal)  Republican millionaire Jay Faison is pushing his party to embrace clean energy, saying conservatives don’t need to be on the defensive on climate issues. The North Carolina businessman this week launched a super PAC

March 03, 2016 Read Full Article

AAAS President Seeks Increasing Support for Curiosity-Driven Research

by Earl Lane (Science Magazine)  From a childhood fascination with cactus plants, to fieldwork in Brazil tracing the wild progenitor of the cassava plant, to learning the subtleties of rice cultivation from an expert farmer in the highlands of Thailand,

March 01, 2016 Read Full Article

What These Christians Are Giving up for Lent: Fossil Fuels

by  Chelsea Harvey  (The Washington Post)  A new initiative in the United Kingdom is not only calling for Christian communities to band together in support of clean energy, but actually helping them get their own electricity that way. The Big Church

February 11, 2016 Read Full Article

EPA's FY 2016 Budget Proposal Increases Support for Communities to Deliver Core Environmental and Health Protections

(Environmental Protection Agency)  The Obama Administration Fiscal Year 2016 budget announced today for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lays out a strategy to ensure that all Americans benefit from the economic recovery we are seeing today. The proposed EPA

February 09, 2016 Read Full Article

Why the U.S. East Coast Could Be a Major ‘Hotspot’ for Rising Seas

by Chris Mooney (The Washington Post)  New research published Monday adds to a body of evidence suggesting that a warming climate may have particularly marked effects for some citizens of the country most responsible for global warming in the first place — namely,

February 08, 2016 Read Full Article

2 House Members File To Form Bipartisan Caucus On Climate (Yes, They're Both From S. Florida)

(DemocraticUnderground.com)  Two congressmen — Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R) and Rep. Theodore Deutch (D), both of Florida, filed paperwork this week to create the Climate Solutions Caucus. The group plans to look at options to address climate change and will serve “to

February 08, 2016 Read Full Article

Biodiesel: Fightback Needed against the Merchants of Doubt, says NBB Chief

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ... Though optimistic, NBB CEO Joe Jobe also noted significant challenges still remain. “While our fight is not over, we have a different future. 2016 is going to be our strongest year yet,” he said.  “A

February 08, 2016 Read Full Article

Here's Where the 2016 Republican Field Stands on Climate Change

by Anthony Adragna (Bloomberg BNA)  ... Businessman Donald Trump: The Republican front-runner has disputed the notion that human activity significantly contributes to climate change. In 2012, Trump wrote, "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order

February 02, 2016 Read Full Article

Mitigation of International Aviation Emissions: The Flightpath from Paris to Montreal

(GreenAir Online)  ...  Of particular relevance is the development by ICAO of a global market-based measure (MBM) for consideration by the 39th Session of its Assembly later this year and intended implementation from 2020. Chris Lyle reviews some implications of

January 15, 2016 Read Full Article

Reports from IMF and French Economists Call for Climate Taxes on International Aviation Fuel or Air Travel

(GreenAir Online)  Two reports, one an International Monetary Fund (IMF) internal discussion note and the other by the Paris School of Economics (PSE), suggest taxing international aviation fuel or air travel could provide an equitable solution to raising global finance

January 15, 2016 Read Full Article

Obama, with No Elections Left to Lose, Drops Mention of Fossil Fuels

by Eric Wolff (Politico Morning Energy)  President Obama's final State of the Union address made no mention of an "all of the above" energy policy, nor of natural gas or fracking, and it only mentioned oil to either criticize it

January 13, 2016 Read Full Article

Compilation of US State of the Union 2016: Selected Remarks on Energy and Climate Change

(compiled by Biofuels Digest) "Gas under two bucks a gallon ain’t bad, either.”  ...  We need the same level of commitment when it comes to developing clean energy sources. Look, if anybody still wants to dispute the science around climate change,

January 13, 2016 Read Full Article

After Paris Accord, Most U.S. Republicans Back Action on Climate

by Megan Cassella (Reuters)  A majority of U.S. Republicans who had heard of the international climate deal in Paris said they support working with other countries to curb global warming and were willing to take steps to do so, according

December 23, 2015 Read Full Article

Decarbonising Transport Must Take Centre Stage in Europe’s Efforts to Meet Historic COP21 Ambitions

(ePURE)  On 12 December, 195 Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change agreed to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and strengthen global action to fight climate change. The Paris Agreement includes an objective to limit global warming to

December 21, 2015 Read Full Article

Modeling Climate Change and its Social Costs

by Osaretin Oghomwen Omorodion* (Advanced Biofuels USA) On November 13th, the National Academies of Science's Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education convened with its board of Environmental Change and Society to assess current trends in monitoring climate change

December 17, 2015 Read Full Article

Meet the New Climate Villain: Cheap Oil

by Charles Komanoff (Carbon Tax Center)  ... The average price of gas sold in the U.S. over the past ten months is 25 percent below last year’s price — the steepest drop in at least 70 years. Americans are responding by

December 16, 2015 Read Full Article

Biofuels May Curb Carbon Dioxide Levels

by Jeannine Otto (AgriNews)  “What is it that can do better than corn? We only know one plant right now, and that’s manioc — you know it as tapioca,” said Elwynn Taylor, ag meteorologist and professor of ag meteorology at Iowa

December 15, 2015 Read Full Article

The Paris Climate Agreement: What it Says, and What it Means

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  “The World Starts from Tomorrow” says UN Secretary-General  --  In France, representatives from 195 nations approved the Paris Agreement on global, coordinated response framework for climate change. Acceptance of the Agreement arrived at the end

December 14, 2015 Read Full Article

Best Chance to Save the Planet: The Digest’s 2015 8-Slide Guide to the Paris Agreement

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Guiding the delegates at Paris for the recent, historic climate change agreement was a whole bunch of data on energy. One of the most intelligent offerings on that topic came from the International Energy Agency,

December 14, 2015 Read Full Article

Obama's Climate Change Hypocrisy

by Paul Alexander (Huffington Post)  Some commentators have argued President Barack Obama suffers from a failure of leadership. That was evidenced once again last week when he traveled to Paris to demand the world cut greenhouse gas emissions on the

December 11, 2015 Read Full Article

Biofuels Contribution to GHG Emissions Offsets Significant

(Global Renewable Fuels Alliance/Ethanol Producer Magazine)  At the World Climate Summit under way in Paris, France, the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance in cooperation with (S&T)2 Consultants Inc., an internationally renowned energy and environmental consulting firm, released a new report “Green

December 09, 2015 Read Full Article

Does This Really Make Us More Secure?

by Gary Truitt (1010WCSI)  ... Yet, the biggest indication that the President’s comments were flimflam came from within his own administration. Within hours of Mr. Obama’s remarks in Paris, the EPA announced the final rule on the blend levels of ethanol

December 08, 2015 Read Full Article

Biofuel Groups Call for 15% Biofuel in Transportation Fuel

(ePURE/Ethanol Producer Magazine)  The global biofuels and industrial biotechnology sectors have united to call on world leaders attending the COP21 in Paris to support a global commitment to replace at least 15 percent of the world’s total oil use in

December 07, 2015 Read Full Article

Bernie Sanders Unveils Climate Plan

by Alex Seitz-Wald (NBC News)  Democratic presidential Bernie Sanders rolled out an expansive climate plan Monday that aims to cut U.S. carbon emissions 80% by 2050 and create 10 million clean energy jobs. To accomplish these goals, the 16-page plan takes

December 07, 2015 Read Full Article

Global RFA Urges COP21 to Support Biofuels

by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com)  As world leaders continue to meet in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21), the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA) is asking themto signal their support for biofuels as one of the tools to

December 03, 2015 Read Full Article

Statement - Minister McKenna Congratulates Manitoba's Climate Action Contributions

(Environment and Climate Change Canada /PR Newswire)  On behalf of the Government of Canada, the Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, congratulated Manitoba on its contributions to climate action in Canada. "Manitoba has placed great emphasis on green energy in

December 03, 2015 Read Full Article

Unearthing America's Deep Network of Climate Change Deniers

by Eric Roston (Bloomberg)  ... The minority who remain skeptical of climate science—a group that includes presidential hopefuls and powerful lawmakers—can count on a dedicated network of several thousand professional supporters. ...  A loose network of 4,556 individuals with overlapping ties to 164

December 02, 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

Poll: Two-Thirds of Americans Want US to Join International Climate Pact

by  Timothy Cama (The Hill)  Two-thirds of Americans want the United States to join an international agreement to fight climate change, a new poll found. The survey, from the New York Times and CBS, could provide a tailwind to the United

December 01, 2015 Read Full Article

Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks' Corporate Sponsors

by George Dvorsky (Gizmodo)  UK-based activist group Brandalism has peppered the streets of Paris with 600 fake outdoor ads meant to expose the hypocrisy of COP21 Climate Conference corporate sponsors. The fake, unauthorized outdoor ads were strategically placed around Paris this past weekend,

December 01, 2015 Read Full Article

11 Top Low-Carbon Fuel Players, WCSBD Publish COP 21 Guide to Slashing Transport-Based Greenhouse Gas Emissions

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Switzerland, 11 leading low carbon fuel companies present a comprehensive guide that identifies a variety of available and accessible low carbon fuel solutions. ... Today, only 3% of transportation fuels are low carbon. According to the International

November 24, 2015 Read Full Article

Here’s How the U.S. Can Dump Fossil Fuels for Good

by  Joe Uehlein and May Boeve (Grist.org)  The world must go fossil-free — and fast. But the proposals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that the U.S. and other countries are proposing for the upcoming climate summit in Paris will still allow

November 24, 2015 Read Full Article

Why Are So Many Americans Skeptical about Climate Change? A Study Offers a Surprising Answer.

by Joby Warrick (The Washington Post)  Climate change has long been a highly polarizing topic in the United States, with Americans lining up on opposite sides depending on their politics and worldview. Now a scientific study sheds new light on

November 24, 2015 Read Full Article

Electric Cars and the Coal that Runs Them

by Michael Birnbaum (The Washington Post)  Cheap electricity, a changing climate This is part of a series exploring how the world’s hunger for cheap electricity is complicating efforts to combat climate change.  ---  ...  But behind the green growth is

November 24, 2015 Read Full Article

AP Fact Check: Most GOP Candidates Flunk Climate Science

by Seth Borenstein (Associated Press)  When it comes to climate science, two of the three Democratic presidential candidates are A students, while most of the Republican contenders are flunking, according to a panel of scientists who reviewed candidates' comments. At the

November 23, 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

Acceptance of Global Warming Rising for Americans of all Religious Beliefs

(Ford School Center for Local, State and Urban Policy)  The release earlier this year of the Papal Encyclical, Laudato Si’, and the visit of Pope Francis to the United States have reinvigorated the discussion of the relationship between religion and

November 02, 2015 Read Full Article

Moderate GOP Senators Form Green Coalition

by Timothy Cama (The Hill)  Four centrist Senate Republicans are banding together to call for policies to protect the environment. Sen. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Mark Kirk (Ill.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) describe the group as a loose coalition

November 02, 2015 Read Full Article

Democratic Presidential Contenders Join Calls To Investigate Exxon

by Daniel Marans (Huffington Post)  Two Democratic presidential candidates indicated on Friday (October 16, 2015) they support an investigation of oil giant ExxonMobil for concealing research on fossil fuels’ contribution to climate change, following a call by two House Democrats for

October 30, 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

The Digest’s Official Guide to the 2016 US Presidential Elections for the Bio-Curious

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Who’s for it? Who wants to phase it out? Who wants to end it, not mend it? When it comes to the 18 US presidential candidates in this cycle, the Iowa Caucuses are coming up

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

Over 3 out of 4 Americans Now Acknowledge Climate Change Is Occurring--Including the Majority of Republicans

by Sheril Kirshenbaum (Scientific American)   Maybe it's the weather. Or the Pope. Or the irrefutable scientific data. Or perhaps a combination of all three.   The latest UT Energy Poll released this morning (October 20, 2015) reveals that U.S. attitudes on

October 22, 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

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

Many Conservative Republicans Believe Climate Change Is a Real Threat

by Coral Davenport (The New York Times)  A majority of Republicans — including 54 percent of self-described conservative Republicans — believe the world’s climate is changing and that mankind plays some role in the change, according to a new survey conducted by

September 29, 2015 Read Full Article

Poll: Rural Nebraskans Ready to Act on Climate Change

(High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal)  Many rural Nebraskans are concerned about potential weather problems in their area, and most believe the state should develop a plan for adapting to climate change to reduce its impact on agriculture, communities and natural resources,

September 22, 2015 Read Full Article

Scientists Ask Obama For RICO Investigation To End Climate Debate

by Thomas Richard (Examiner.com/Climate Change Dispatch)  According to Politico's Morning Energy report published today, twenty climate scientists have sent a letter to President Obama urging him to jail climate skeptics using the RICO act. In a letter dated September 1

September 17, 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

Winning Coalitions for Climate Policy

by Jonas Meckling, Nina Kelsey, Eric Biber, John Zysman (Science Magazine) The gap is wide between the implications of climate science and the achievements of climate policy. Natural sciences tell us with increasing certainty that climate change is real, dangerous, and solvable;

September 14, 2015 Read Full Article

No, Obama Isn’t a Climate Hypocrite

by Stephen Stromberg (The Washington Post)  President Obama declared climate change to be the defining threat of the century in Alaska this week, before he literally hiked a melting glacier. But, once again proving that virtually nothing will be enough for

September 02, 2015 Read Full Article

Pope Sets up Yearly Catholic Church Day of Care for Environment

by Tony Gentile (Reuters)  Pope Francis, riding a wave of mostly positive reaction to his encyclical on ecology, on Monday set up a Catholic "World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation" to draw attention to the plight of

August 17, 2015 Read Full Article

Bush Calls out EPA Climate Rules as 'Irresponsible' Overreach

by John Siciliano (Washington Examiner)  Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush is calling out President Obama's climate change plan as "irresponsible," while at the same time admitting global warming is man-made and real. ... While Bush scolds EPA for overstepping its authority to

August 10, 2015 Read Full Article

Lindsey Graham: I Wouldn't Disagree With Hillary Clinton on Science of Climate Change

by  Rebecca Leber (New Republic) Only two candidates, Senator Lindsey Graham and George Pataki, in the second-tier Republican presidential debate on Thursday have accepted that climate change is real and man-made. That doesn't neecssarily mean they support policies to mitigate

August 07, 2015 Read Full Article

How to Detect Nonsense about Climate Change

by Stephen Stromberg (The Washington Post)  The final version of the Clean Power Plan, President Obama’s signature climate change policy, came out on Monday. Here’s how to tell whether the politicians, special interests and commentators you’re going to hear talking

August 04, 2015 Read Full Article

DoD Releases Report on Security Implications of Climate Change

(U.S. Department of Defense)  Global climate change will aggravate problems such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership and weak political institutions that threaten stability in a number of countries, according to a report the Defense Department sent to

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

“Nothing Will Happen without the Will” – Addressing Climate Change through Low-Carbon Fuels

by Jennifer Holmgren (LanzaTech/Biofuels Digest)  Condensed from remarks by Dr. Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech, on receiving the Rosalind Franklin Award for Leadership in Industrial Biotechnology,  from the Biotechnology Industry Organization.  Listen to 8-minute speech. [audio m4a="https://advancedbiofuelsusa.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-0722-Jennifer-Holmgren-BIO-Congress.m4a"][/audio] ... Imagine how old you will be

August 03, 2015 Read Full Article

State Board Grants Provisional Charter for NY Climate Museum

by Jim Fitzgerald (Associated Press)  The plan for a museum in the city that would focus on climate and climate change, with exhibits that could relate to health, social justice and rain-delayed baseball games, moved a step forward Monday, officials

July 21, 2015 Read Full Article

THE CASE FOR BIOFUEL: The Magic Bullet for Energy Security and Rural Development in Africa

by Olatomiwa Bifarin* (Advanced Biofuels USA)  Around 770,000 BC, it was fire, at some point – wood, dung and coal, to the now-ominous fossil fuels. This is the evolution of energy, and today the evolution must be accelerated to save

July 16, 2015 Read Full Article

Treat Climate Change as Seriously as National Security: Report

by Alister Doyle (Reuters)  Governments should treat climate change as seriously as threats to national security or public health, partly by focusing more on the worst scenarios of rising temperatures, an international report said on Monday. Crop failures, extreme heat waves

July 15, 2015 Read Full Article

The Beyond-Two-Degree Inferno

by Marcia McNutt (Science Magazine)  ... 2°C above the preindustrial level. This is a target viewed as the boundary between climate warming to which we can perhaps adapt and more extreme warming that will be very disruptive to society and the ecosystems

July 03, 2015 Read Full Article

Pope Blames Climate Change on Humans in 183-Page Call for Action

by Devin Henry (The Hill)  Global warming is happening, human activity is causing it and more needs to be done, especially by the world’s governments and policymakers, to stop it, Pope Francis writes in his landmark encyclical on the environment,

June 19, 2015 Read Full Article

How Climate Change Deniers Got It Right — But Very Wrong

by Tony Dokoupil (MSNBC)  It turns out the climate change deniers were right: There isn’t 97% agreement among climate scientists. The real figure? It’s not lower, but actually higher. The scientific “consensus” on climate change has gotten stronger, surging past the famous

June 17, 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

Unprecedented Video Campaign: Scientists Talk About Why Climate Change Matters to Them Personally

by Anastasia Pantsios  (EcoWatch)  ... We know that 97 percent of scientists agree: climate change is real and it’s driven by human activity. But well-funded climate deniers and their smooth-talking frontmen often manage to get the media to frame climate change as a

March 23, 2015 Read Full Article

Bribery Is a Bargain for Big Oil

by Stephen Kretzmann and Matthew Maiorana (Oil Change International/Huffington Post) If you are wondering why a pipeline that would create fewer jobs than a new McDonalds is the number one priority of what used to be known as "the world's greatest deliberative

March 20, 2015 Read Full Article

Mann-Splaining the Global Warming Slowdown

by Darius Dixon (Morning Energy-Politico)  ...A trio of climate scientists has pointed to the Pacific Ocean as a major culprit behind the slowing rate of average global temperature increases over the past decade. Climate skeptics have seized on slowdown as

February 27, 2015 Read Full Article

8 Ways Obama Sucks on Climate

by Ben Adler (Grist) ... But many of the administration’s moves, including a string of recent actions by federal agencies under Obama’s control, show this conventional wisdom to be false. Here are the president’s top eight climate failings, many of them

February 18, 2015 Read Full Article

A Biofuel Debate: Will Cutting Trees Cut Carbon?

by Eduardo Porter (The New York Times)  Does combating climate change require burning the world’s forests and crops for fuel? ... Absent a big increase in bioenergy supplies, the climate change panel’s analysis reported, it would cost about two-thirds more, on

February 11, 2015 Read Full Article

In Major Shift, Obama Administration Will Plan for Rising Seas in All Federal Projects

by Juliet Eilperin (The Washington Post)   President Obama issued an executive order Friday directing federal agencies to adopt stricter building and siting standards to reflect scientific projections that future flooding will be more frequent and intense due to climate change. The

February 06, 2015 Read Full Article

Dangerously in Denial on Climate Change

by  Catherine Rampell (The Washington Post) ... In recent weeks, West Virginia has snatched national headlines for its attempts to doctor school science standards to discredit climate change. The sixth-grade science curriculum, for example, was amended so that, rather than having

January 20, 2015 Read Full Article

A New Pew Survey Shows Americans Might Finally Be Getting Serious about Global Warming

by Roberto A. Ferdman (The Washington Post)  Pew Research Center is out with a new survey and, for the first time in years, it actually bodes well for those hoping climate change will finally become a policy priority in the United

January 20, 2015 Read Full Article

Delaware-Size Gas Plume over West Illustrates the Cost of Leaking Methane

by Joby Warrick   (The Washington Post)   The methane that leaks from 40,000 gas wells near this desert trading post may be colorless and odorless, but it’s not invisible. It can be seen from space. Satellites that sweep over energy-rich

December 30, 2014 Read Full Article

Poll: Half of Republicans Back Limits on Carbon

by Dina Cappiello   (Associated Press/Seattle pi)    When Republicans take control of Congress next month, top on their agenda will be undoing environmental regulations they claim will harm the economy, chief among them President Barack Obama's plans to limit

December 15, 2014 Read Full Article

Lifting America’s Game in Climate Education, Literacy, and Training

(The White House Office of Science and Technology)  ...  Continued progress into the future will depend on ensuring a climate-smart citizenry and a next-generation American workforce of city planners, community leaders, engineers, and entrepreneurs who understand the urgent climate-change challenge and are equipped

December 08, 2014 Read Full Article

The Old Man and the Rising Sea

by Jeff Guo (The Washington Post)  Assateague, a 37-mile-long smear off the shores of Maryland and Virginia, is the East Coast’s climate change canary. It’s one of the most vulnerable islands in America, almost certain to be one of the

December 07, 2014 Read Full Article

Wobbling on Climate Change

by  Piers J. Sellers (The New York Times)  I’M a climate scientist and a former astronaut. Not surprisingly, I have a deep respect for well-tested theories and facts. In the climate debate, these things have a way of getting blurred

November 12, 2014 Read Full Article

U.N. Panel Issues Its Starkest Warning Yet on Global Warming

by Justin Gillis (The New York Times)  ... Despite growing efforts in many countries to tackle the problem, the global situation is becoming more acute as developing countries join the West in burning huge amounts of fossil fuels, the Intergovernmental Panel

November 03, 2014 Read Full Article

Obama: (Un)intentionally Reengineering the RFS for Big Oil?

by Brooke Coleman (Biofuels Digest/Advanced Ethanol Council)  ... It is doubtful that anyone on the Obama energy team regards themselves as having anything in common with someone like Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), who has declared climate change a hoax. Senator

October 29, 2014 Read Full Article

Read DoD report: 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap

(The Hill)  The Pentagon is integrating climate change threats into all of its "plans, operations, and training" across the entire Defense Department, signaling a comprehensive attempt to tackle the impacts of global warming. In a 20-page report released on Monday, the

October 17, 2014 Read Full Article

Climate Change Is Real. Want to Live? It's Up to People Like You

by Jarvis Cocker (Creative Time Reports/The Guardian)  ... You whisper now, but could it be that there is a higher power than … THE ECONOMY? I know that sounds a bit sacrilegious, but could it be that THE ECOLOGY is actually the

September 18, 2014 Read Full Article

Greens Launch Pro-Republican Push

by Darren Goode (Politico)  ... The Environmental Defense Action Fund is rolling out a seven-figure ad campaign to aid green-minded Republicans in the midterm elections, part of a longer-term effort to find GOP partners on priorities like climate change. If it

August 15, 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

Platts Webinar – European Road Fuels

by Olatomiwa Bifarin* (Advanced Biofuel USA) Tim Worledge, the Associate Editorial Director of Platts Agriculture relayed some of the history and the status quo of the biofuel industry in Europe during a webinar hosted by Platts and Aspect Enterprise Solutions

July 09, 2014 Read Full Article
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