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A Fifth of U.S. Green Hydrogen Projects Eyed for Water-Stressed Areas

by Alec Luhn (Floodlight)  As the federal government pours billions into hydrogen production to lower greenhouse gas emissions, critics worry water shortages in the Southwest could worsen -- Armed with bright green shovels, executives from the Australian mining giant Fortescue broke ground in May on

August 08, 2024 Read Full Article

Sweet Sorghum Is a Hardy, Nutritious, Biofuel Crop that Offers Solutions in Drought-Hit Southern Africa

by Hamond Motsi (The Conversation) ... One measure the sector can take is to cultivate biofuel crops. These are crops rich in starch, sugar or oils that can be converted into bioethanol directly or through a fermentation process. Bioethanol, a type

May 21, 2024 Read Full Article

EID Parry Chalks out Expansion Plans to Tap Ethanol

(PTI/Money Control)  The company has obtained in-principle approval from the Department of Food and Public distribution, for its expansion under the central government scheme, extending financial assistance to mills for enhancement and augmentation of Ethanol production capacity. ... The city-based company in its

July 09, 2019 Read Full Article

Kenya’s Farmers Battle Drought through Biodiesel Made from Cotton Waste

by  Sanjoy Sanyal and Esther Kahinga (World Resources Institute)  ... While irrigation systems could help provide a more stable source of water, they currently cover only six to eight percent of Kenya’s land. Some farmers, though, are gaining access to them through a

May 02, 2019 Read Full Article

UFOP Report on Global Market Supply 2018/2019: Combining Economically Viable Agriculture with Appropriate Agricultural Market and Climate Protection Policies

(Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Crops (UFOP))  The Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Crops (UFOP) has formulated its policy expectations on the occasion of the presentation of the third edition of the Global Market Supply

February 05, 2019 Read Full Article

European Drought Increases Ethanol Feedstock Costs but Also Boosts Dried Distillers Grains Prices

by Chrysa Glystra (S&P Global Platts)  The hot and dry weather that has swept across Northwest Europe over the summer months has seen grains prices skyrocket but has also increased demand for animal feed, including dried distillers grains, a by-product of ethanol

August 10, 2018 Read Full Article

Study Says CRP Mixes Don't Live up to Biofuel Potential

by Julie Harker (Brownfield Ag News)  Mixed prairie grasses that are used in Conservation Reserve Program lands did not live up to their potential as biomass crops for cellulosic biofuel production, in an eight-year study. D.K. Lee, associate crop science professor at

February 21, 2018 Read Full Article

Consequences of Drought Stress on Biofuels

(Phys.Org/U.S. Department of Energy) ...However, weather conditions could greatly affect crop yields. In this study, researchers examined the effect of weather on biofuel production by comparing switchgrass and corn stover harvested after a year of major drought and after 2

September 11, 2017 Read Full Article

Water-Energy Dependence around Pacific Rim Mapped in New Sandia Study

(Sandia National Laboratories)  A wide-ranging analysis of water vulnerability across the Pacific — including the U.S., China, Russia and Japan — has identified hundreds of locations where energy production depends upon scarce water supplies. The Sandia National Laboratories study, “Mapping Water

September 20, 2016 Read Full Article

Limpopo Receives R940m Investment for Renewable Energy from US, Chinese Companies

(African News Agency/Engineering News)  American and Chinese companies are set to invest R940-million in Limpopo to pursue renewable energy and ethanol profits, government and investors have announced. The United States’ Bio-Processing Innovation and the Beijing Singling Technology Centre said on

May 12, 2016 Read Full Article

Cassava May Help Support Ethanol Needs

by Apornrath Phoonphongphiphat (Bangkok Post) Rising ethanol demand this year, coupled with expected sugar-cane production cuts due to the severe drought, are likely to force ethanol producers to switch to cassava as their feedstock instead of molasses, industry officials say. Weaker oil

March 15, 2016 Read Full Article

Scorching Summer Drives California Innovation and Biofuels

by Graham Noyes (Low Carbon Fuels Coalition/Biofuels Digest)  California’s politicians and people are responding to the state’s increasingly dire symptoms of climate change with innovation, resolve, and biofuel policies. California’s determination to recapture its milder and less fire-prone environment is best

September 01, 2015 Read Full Article

Study: Easing Ethanol Mandate Could Have Cut Corn Prices during Drought

(University of Nebraska-Lincoln)  By relaxing a federal ethanol mandate, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could have counteracted the impact of the 2012 drought on corn prices, a new study by UNL agricultural economists concludes. The study provides a guidepost for action

March 09, 2015 Read Full Article

Renewed Interest in Grain Sorghum in Nebraska

by Ken Anderson (Browfield Ag News)  A combination of dry weather and increased demand from the ethanol sector could have grain sorghum poised for a comeback in Nebraska. Grain sorghum plantings in the state plummeted from 550-thousand acres in 2000 to just

March 29, 2013 Read Full Article

Optimistic Bearing: Staying Bullish on Ethanol Even in the Trough of Negative Margins.

by Susanne Retka Schill (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  ...“Ethanol’s value proposition, as a very cost-effective molecule in the motor gasoline pool, has proven itself over time, and we’re very confident of that in the future,” says Jason Searl, vice president of

March 25, 2013 Read Full Article

Ethanol--Does the RFS Matter?

by Scott Irwin and Darrel Good (University of Illinois/FarmDocDaily)  ...The suggestion to waive the mandate assumes that ethanol production and blending is motivated only by the RFS and that a lower mandate would result in less ethanol production and blending and

March 21, 2013 Read Full Article

Idle Ethanol Plants Wait for New Fuel Standards

by Grant Gerlock (KBIA)  Ethanol is an up and down industry, and right now it’s down. Ethanol plants in at least 13 states have stopped running over recent months because of higher corn prices and lower demand for the biofuel.

March 20, 2013 Read Full Article

Operation Deathanol, RINs, and the Selling of the Fossil Fuels Story

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Read any stories about renewable fuels lately in mainstream media? Bet they’re bad ones.  Here we look at the latest chapter in the “death to all renewables” propaganda war. If you are a reader of the

March 19, 2013 Read Full Article

Ethanol Plants Turning toward Grain Sorghum

by Art Hovey (Lincoln Star Journal)  ...On a much brighter note, the managers of ethanol plants in Trenton and Ravenna are pushing hard to make a crop also known as milo the main ingredient in their renewable fuels recipes. ...Drought hardiness

March 05, 2013 Read Full Article

WASDE Report

by Geoff Cooper (Renewable Fuels Association)  ... Total global grain supplies were raised slightly to 2705.6 MMT, the second-largest on record. The U.S. ethanol industry is projected to use 78.9 MMT (net DDGS), meaning just 2.92% of the world grain supply

December 27, 2012 Read Full Article

Renewable Fuel Standard Benefits Consumers, Economy

by Tadd Nicholson  (Chillicothe Gazette)   ...Blending corn ethanol into gasoline reduces our reliance on foreign oil, helping to meet our nation’s goal of energy independence. In 2011, thanks in part to corn ethanol, the U.S. imported 485 million fewer

December 20, 2012 Read Full Article

Ethanol Use in Gasoline Production Would Be the Same with or without RFS Waiver

by Daryll Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer (Southwest Farm Press/University of Tennessee)  ...On November 16, 2012, the EPA denied the request of Governor Perdue and others. The short story is that while the EPA recognizes the impact of the drought

December 06, 2012 Read Full Article

25x'25 Commends EPA Decision to Uphold RFS

(25 x '25) In response to the EPA decision today upholding volume requirements of the federal Renewable Fuel Standard, 25x'25 Co-chairmen Read Smith and Bart Ruth issued the following joint statement: "EPA's decision today finding no evidence that the federal Renewable Fuel Standard

November 16, 2012 Read Full Article

Renewable Fuels: Notices--Denial of Requests for a Waiver of the Renewable Fuel Standard

(U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)  In August 2012, Governors from several States requested a waiver of the national volume requirements for the renewable fuel standard program (RFS) pursuant to Section 211(o)(7) of the Clean Air Act. EPA's extensive analysis makes clear

November 16, 2012 Read Full Article

Biofuels Mandates Around the World – Who Is Moving the Targets?

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ... United States   Concerns over the price impacts of a devastating US drought have led to call for a waiver in the US Renewable Fuel Standard volumetric targets. Proposed waivers have ranged from small, symbolic down-shifting

October 25, 2012 Read Full Article

Geoff Cooper Addresses Attendees at Export Exchange

by Jamie Johansen (DomesticFuel.com)  Attendees for the 2012 Export Exchange were the audience for Renewable Fuels Associations’s Geoff Cooper. Geoff serves as the organizations Vice President and spoke to over 500 of the worlds feed producers, marketers and buyers. He explained that distillers grains and

October 24, 2012 Read Full Article

Rain Dancing on Wall Street, Main Street and Elm Street

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  As drought, recession, and capital starvation form a perfect storm, will advanced biofuels be thrown under the bus?  Industry leaders say that dropping biofuels production targets will not reverse impacts of the 2012 drought. Instead,

October 23, 2012 Read Full Article

RFS Waiver Would Have Minor Effect on Corn Price in Short Term

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  An October report from the Food and Agriculture Policy Research Institute concludes that a reduction in the renewable fuel standard wouldn’t greatly reduce corn prices in the 2012/’13 crop year. However, the effects of

October 16, 2012 Read Full Article

Study: Waiving RFS Could Increase Feed Costs for Livestock, Poultry Producers

(Renewable Fuels Association)   Waiving the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in 2013 could actually result in higher net feeding costs for livestock and poultry producers, according to a new analysis conducted by Cardno-ENTRIX and commissioned by the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA). The study found that if a

October 15, 2012 Read Full Article

The RFS: It’s Not Broke, Don’t Fix It

by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association/Ethanol Producer Magazine)  This summer’s drought in the farm belt raised real fears about food supplies and prices. But some in the livestock, poultry and meat processing industries are using this summer’s problems to further

October 08, 2012 Read Full Article

Corn Price Decline Less Than 1% With Full RFS Waiver

(Corn and Soybean Digest)  A full waiver of the Renewable Fuel Standard’s (RFS) conventional biofuel requirement might reduce corn prices by just 0.5% (4¢/bu.) in 2012-2013, according to a new analysis conducted by the Food and Agriculture Policy Research Institute. The study

October 08, 2012 Read Full Article

Are High Grain Prices Good for Anyone?

by Roy Roberson (Southeast Farm Press)  • Sounds like a good deal for grain growers and a bad one for livestock producers and consumers, but are such high prices really good for any of us? • Allan Baucom says the last

October 02, 2012 Read Full Article

When Will I Be Loved?: Supporters of the US Renewable Fuel Standard Begin to Rally

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...“Fuels America is built around one core idea: renewable fuel is essential to the U.S. economy, our nation’s energy security, our rural communities and the environment,” said former Congressman Jim Greenwood, President and CEO, Biotechnology

September 28, 2012 Read Full Article

Crop Prices Probably Peaked After Drought Cuts U.S. Output

by Luzi Ann Javier (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)  Rallies in corn, wheat and soybeans because of drought in the U.S., the top grains shipper, are probably over and it would need worsening weather elsewhere to push up futures, said Macquarie Agricultural Funds

September 24, 2012 Read Full Article

Requests to Waive the Renewable Fuel Standard in the Aftermath of the 2012 Heat Wave and Drought

by Ned Stowe (Environmental and Energy Study Institute) In the wake of the devastating heat wave and drought which covered much of the United States this year, it has become clear that there will be less corn available on the market

September 21, 2012 Read Full Article

Response To EPRINC Study: “Ethanol’s Lost Promise”

by Geoff Cooper (Renewable Fuels Association)  About EPRINC: EPRINC is a non-profit group funded by Big Oil, staffed by former oil company employees, and directed by a board of trustees that is a veritable who’s-who of Big Oil executives—including AFPM’s

September 19, 2012 Read Full Article

Sorghum in Spotlight Due to Drought, Pending EPA Action

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)   For years, National Sorghum Producers have advocated for increasing the use of grain sorghum, or milo, as an ethanol feedstock. Lately, the idea seems to be gaining steam. “There’s been increased interest over

September 17, 2012 Read Full Article

Paris Backs Halt in Biofuel Use to Avert Food Shortages

(EurActiv)  A French plan to fight food price volatility took further shape yesterday (12 September) with a call to pause global development of biofuels, just a day after President François Hollande pushed for creation of strategic food stocks. A government spokeswoman,

September 17, 2012 Read Full Article

RFS Waiver Comment Period Extended

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com)  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a 15 day extension of the comment period on the requests for a waiver of the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS). The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), who filed for an extension on August 30,

September 13, 2012 Read Full Article

Market Speculators, Oil Drive High Food Prices

by Mike Bryan (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  The U.S. drought, disastrous as it is, does not signal Armageddon for food prices, biofuels and the poor. First, one needs to understand that the main drivers behind rising corn prices, even in today’s

September 13, 2012 Read Full Article

Fears of Global Food Price Crisis Recede

by Nigel Hunt and Veronica Brown (Reuters)    * USDA report paints less severe corn crop picture than feared * FAO says situation seems comfortable * Analysts still wary on prices as U.S. corn harvest in early stages The third global food price spike

September 13, 2012 Read Full Article

Ethanol Mandate Waiver: Decks Stacked Against Petitioners

by Marlo Lewis (GlobalWarming.org)  The Governors of Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, and North Carolina have petitioned EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to waive the mandatory ethanol blending requirements established by the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). The petitioners hope thereby to lower and stabilize corn prices, which recently hit record highs as the worst drought in

September 11, 2012 Read Full Article

Ethanol and the Journalism It Attracts

by Terry Daynard  (The Record)   Opinion pieces about fuel ethanol have been popular among national journalists this summer, most seem written quickly and researched poorly. The one published recently by news services columnist Carol Goar in The Record (Ethanol is

September 11, 2012 Read Full Article

Food Crises and Technological Phobia

by Drew Kershen (BioFortified)  ...I do not write to enter the debate focused on fuel standards, markets and commodity speculators.   I acknowledge that other factors also contribute to food crises, particularly in developing nations – e.g., underfunded agricultural research and

September 07, 2012 Read Full Article

Analysis: U.S. Bankers Say, Love or Hate It, Ethanol Here to Stay

by Christine Stebbins  (Reuters) ..."Ethanol demand is the linchpin of the current pricing model that we have," said Michael Swanson, agricultural economist at Wells Fargo, the largest commercial bank lender to U.S. farmers. "It's a completely different question whether it's

September 06, 2012 Read Full Article

Hard to Pass Food-Price Spikes on to Consumers

by Neil Shah (The Wall Street Journal)  America’s widest drought since 1956 has killed corn, soybean and wheat crops and raised the risk of higher prices for everything from hamburgers and Coke to cooking oil. But how bad are prices

September 06, 2012 Read Full Article

Ethanol Stays in Gasoline Even If Mandate Ends

by Mario Parker (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)  Ethanol, the best-performing energy commodity this year, is cheaper than gasoline, encouraging refiners to use the biofuel even if President Barack Obama’s administration ends a requirement to do so. A 49 cent-per-gallon discount to gasoline provides

August 28, 2012 Read Full Article

Biofuels Lobby Asks Obama to Keep US Ethanol Mandate Amid Drought

(Platts)  Eight groups representing a cross section of the US biofuels industry asked the White House on Monday to keep the ethanol mandate in place, despite governors' calls to shrink it in response to a drought. The trade groups argued that

August 28, 2012 Read Full Article

A Waiver that Wouldn’t Be Wise

by Adam Monroe (News Observer)  Last week Gov. Beverly Perdue filed a waiver request for the Renewable Fuel Standard, one of the nation’s most successful energy policies and of critical importance to North Carolina’s economy, jobs and agriculture. Her rationale

August 27, 2012 Read Full Article

Can Ethanol Cut Foreign Oil Imports?

by Ken Silverstein (Forbes)  ...By most standards, the hope that is such first-generation fuel additives are supplanted by next-generation ones, or those produced from cellulose. Worth it? Such fibers are abundant and could supply 130 million gallons a year of ethanol

August 27, 2012 Read Full Article

Oklahoma Researchers Look to Refuel Ethanol

by Adam Wilmoth (News OK)  The extended drought has reduced the country's corn supply and driven up corn costs, affecting the price of ethanol and gasoline. Oklahoma researchers are working to solve both problems. Researchers in Oklahoma are leading the effort

August 27, 2012 Read Full Article

Biofuels Group: Big Oil Also behind Ethanol Waiver Requests

by Zack Coleman (The Hill/E2Wire)  ...Monte Shaw, executive director with the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, credits the uptick in gubernatorial and congressional interest to oil groups viewing 2013 as the last chance to nix the RFS before it forces them

August 27, 2012 Read Full Article

Ethanol Waiver May Lower Corn But Raise Gas Prices

by Bertha Coombs (CNBC)  Calls are growing to suspend the federal ethanol production mandate next year, as the worst drought in more than half a century has devastated the corn crop in the U.S. The question is whether a waiver

August 23, 2012 Read Full Article

Ethanol Production in U.S. Low Enough to Drain Surplus, CME Says

by Mario Parker (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)  Ethanol production in the U.S. has fallen enough to drain a stockpile glut of the biofuel, CME Group Inc. (CME)said. Output has declined 15 percent to 819,000 barrels a day from a record 963,000 barrels on Dec.

August 22, 2012 Read Full Article

Dating Your Feedstock and Never Marrying: The 6 Hottest Ways to Alleviate Food vs Fuel

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  With the US drought, food vs fuel has returned as an issue.  What alternatives are scientists, entrepreneurs developing to take us beyond the old debate? ...1. Feedstock diversification.  In biofuels, it is more talked about –

August 21, 2012 Read Full Article

Minister: Ban Biofuel, It Boosts Famine

(The Local: German's News in English)  Biofuel containing corn should be banned from German petrol pumps, a minister has demanded, as droughts and a dramatic rise in food prices mean more of the world population is going hungry. "Rising food prices mean that biofuel

August 21, 2012 Read Full Article

Drought Sparks Intense Fight over RFS Waiver

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  ...Talk of a possible renewable fuel standard (RFS) waiver request became a reality in mid-August, when the U.S. EPA was officially petitioned. The clock starts on a 90-day deadline and a public comment period

August 20, 2012 Read Full Article

Updated Assessment of the Drought's Impacts on Crop Prices and Biofuel Production

by Bruce Babcock (Center for Agricultural and Rural Development)  ...The sharply lowered production estimates suggest the preliminary assessment of the impact of the drought on crop prices and biofuel production that I conducted last month needs to be updated. 1 In the

August 17, 2012 Read Full Article

Ethanol Plant Closures Cause DDGS Supply Issues

(Drovers Cattle Network)  The 2012 drought is not only taking its toll on U.S. Midwest crop and livestock producers. Ethanol plants also are succumbing as high corn prices dry up their operating margins. Suspension of operations, along with reduced production

August 15, 2012 Read Full Article

Biodiesel on the March; REG Reports Record Revenues for Q2

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...As is sometimes overlooked, the advanced biofuels pool in the US Renewable Fuel Standard is not only a qualifying pool for cellulosic biofuels – which have struggled to come to market in the projected volumes.

August 15, 2012 Read Full Article

US Ethanol Mandate Waiver Would Not Destroy Corn Demand: Deutsche Bank

(Platts)  A waiver of the US ethanol mandate would not destroy corn demand because current gasoline blending economics still favor the use of the corn-based biofuel, Deutsche Bank' analysts Michael Lewis and Christina McGlone said in a research note Monday. Ethanol

August 14, 2012 Read Full Article

Biofuels Industry Group Pushes Lawmakers on Corn Ethanol Views

by Zack Coleman (The Hill/E2Wire)  ... The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) has been warning its political allies on Capitol Hill that attacks against corn ethanol will hinder next-generation fuels, too. BIO has reached out to lawmakers such as Sen. James Inhofe

August 13, 2012 Read Full Article

Midwest Drought Helps Push U.S. Gasoline Prices Higher

(Reuters)  Gasoline prices in the United States rose over the past two weeks, driven partly by supply disruptions and a drought-induced rise in ethanol prices, a widely followed survey showed on Sunday. ...Trilby Lundberg, who conducts the survey of some 2,500

August 13, 2012 Read Full Article

10 Ways Ethanol is Helping Livestock Producers

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com)  ... (E)thanol production provides multiple benefits to Midwestern livestock producers: 1. The ethanol industry has driven the production of a larger corn crop. Simply put, there is more corn to go around. 2. The ethanol industry will bear the

August 13, 2012 Read Full Article

Ethanol Credits May Ease Pressure on U.S. Corn, IEA Says

by Nariman Gizitdinov (Bloomberg)  Ethanol credits held by U.S. refiners may help reduce demand for the blending fuel and ease pressure on rising prices of corn, from which ethanol is made, the International Energy Agency said. The credits, known as Renewable Identification

August 13, 2012 Read Full Article

Czarnikow Sees Improved EU Ethanol Outlook After U.S. Drought

by Whitney McFerron (Bloomberg)  Surging corn prices and policy changes in the U.S. and European Union mean the outlook for the EU’s ethanol industry has “improved dramatically” this year, Czarnikow Group Ltd. said. U.S. ethanol prices have rallied as drought damaged corn

August 10, 2012 Read Full Article

Lower U.S. Corn Crop Doesn’t Justify Ethanol Waiver, RFA Says

by (Bloomberg) ...Refiners can meet biofuel targets by drawing from ample stockpiles and utilizing excess credits, known as Renewable Identification Numbers, that can be submitted in lieu of physically blending a gallon of ethanol to meet the government’s mandate under

August 10, 2012 Read Full Article

House Disaster Assistance Allows Good Intentions to Overwhelm Good Sense

(25 x '25)  While passage last week by the House of Representatives of a bill that would provide much needed relief to drought-stricken livestock producers is laudable, the means by which the bill would pay for the disaster help is

August 10, 2012 Read Full Article

Fighting the Good Fight

by Tom Buis (Growth Energy/Ethanol Producer Magazine)  ...Though it sometimes can be easy to lose sight, the increasing challenges we face are directly correlated to our achievements. In particular, with higher blends of ethanol in gasoline gaining greater acceptance, we

August 09, 2012 Read Full Article

US Drought to Hit Ethanol Exports, Not Gas Prices - EIA

(Reuters)  ...But gasoline prices should be spared despite the loss of ethanol output, the EIA said on Wednesday. "The impact of the forecasted decline in domestic ethanol production should be primarily reflected in reduced ethanol exports," the EIA said. The United

August 09, 2012 Read Full Article

Ethanol Producers Adapt to Drought, Corn Prices

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com)  Nebraska ethanol producers are responding to a tough market.  With excessive drought conditions and nearly record high corn prices, ethanol producers have decreased their consumption in recent weeks. Latest estimates show the state’s ethanol plants operating

August 08, 2012 Read Full Article

Grassley Delivers Harsh Criticism of RFS Waiver Effort

(Brownfield Ag News)  Some strong criticism today from Iowa Senator Charles Grassley directed towards that coalition of livestock, meat and poultry groups asking for changes to the Renewable Fuels Standard’s ethanol mandate. “I think that what the group is really asking

August 02, 2012 Read Full Article

Petroleum Refiners Get out the Old Fear-Mongering Playbook for Attack on Renewable Fuel Standard

by Brent Erickson (BIO/Biofuels Digest)  Despite oil industry claims of “$10 million in fines for non-existent fuels” – they paid exactly $19,010.16 for cellulosic ethanol waivers in 2010, costing US consumers 14 millionths of one penny per gallon.   So why

August 02, 2012 Read Full Article

Ethanol 'One of the Most Hated Industries': CEO

by Jane Wells (CNBC)  ...Proponents say refiners can use past spending splurges on ethanol as credits against this year's purchasing requirements, and exports will also probably be cut. This should leave more corn for everyone else. However, that may not happen.

July 31, 2012 Read Full Article

Letter to the Editor - Response to Wall Street Journal: Purpose over Panic. Fact over Fear.

by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association)  Mr. Larry Pope’s July 27th op-ed “The Ethanol Mandate is Worse Than The Drought” calls out for a rebuttal.  It is a bit astonishing to read an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that argues against

July 31, 2012 Read Full Article

US Farmers Urge Obama Administration to Suspend Ethanol Quota Amid Drought

by Suzanne Goldenberg (The Guardian)  The Obama administration was urged on Monday to stop diverting grain to gas amid warnings of an "imminent food crisis" caused by America's drought. US government forecasts of a 4% rise in food prices for US consumers because of the drought

July 31, 2012 Read Full Article

Drought Impacts Ethanol Production

by Seth Slabaugh  (The Star Press) ... “High corn prices driven by the drought have caused some ethanol plants to temporarily idle or reduce production,” Matt Hartwig of the Renewable Fuels Association, an ethanol trade group in Washington, D.C., told The

July 23, 2012 Read Full Article

Wisconsin Bio Industry Alliance, Renewable Fuels Association Release Ethanol, Drought Myth-Busting Reports

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Bio Industry Alliance published a note “to once again clear up a few myths about ethanol and ethanol production in America.” ...In Washington, the Renewable Fuel Association’s Geoff Cooper noted that “The

July 19, 2012 Read Full Article

Danforth Center Part of Biofuel Study

by Tim Bryant   (STLToday.com)   The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is among five recipients of a $12.1 million federal grant to develop drought-tolerant grass as a sustainable source of biofuel. Developing bioenergy grasses with the desirable traits needed for

July 17, 2012 Read Full Article

The Digest’s Special Report on Drought

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Dire US media headlines abound: “Drought!”  What’s real, what’s hype, and what are the impacts?  More importantly, what alternatives does science give us now, and in the future, with more drought-tolerant energy and food crops? ...A

July 06, 2012 Read Full Article
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