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Future of Biofuels Seen as Hinging on Long-Term Strategy

by Matt Glynn  (BuffaloNews.com)  ‘Green’ consistency is needed to succeed, Noco chief says James D. Newman calls it the “green-versus-green debate” in biofuels. People want to be environmentally conscious, but they hesitate to part with more green — as in money — to

September 19, 2011 Read Full Article

USDA Gives $2 Million for Blender Pumps in 22 States

by Kris Bevill (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  Thirty-three projects in 22 states have been approved for blender pump grants in the latest round of funding to be dispersed through the USDA’s Rural Energy for America Program. A total of $27 million

September 19, 2011 Read Full Article

Members of the European Parliament Call for Cuts in Non-CO2 Greenhouse Emissions

(European Parliament)   Great efforts have been made to reduce CO2 emissions in Europe and internationally, but a number of other substances are also causing Arctic ice-melt and on Wednesday MEPs called for action against so-called non-CO2 emissions including the

September 19, 2011 Read Full Article

Crapo, Udall Introduce Bill to Level Playing Field for Advanced Biofuels

(Senator Mike Crapo)  Would make renewable fuels standard more "technology neutral" U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID)and Tom Udall (D-NM)recently introduced bipartisan legislation in the U.S. Senate that would help level the playing field for advanced biofuels like algae by reforming the Renewable

September 19, 2011 Read Full Article

US, Australia Sign Key Aviation Biofuels Accord

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  MOU covers feedstock readiness, sustainability, data sharing, fuels certification, plus development of new alternative fuel pathways in alcohol conversion, pyrolysis and synthetic biology. Is the agreement, driven by the private sector and formalized by government, a

September 19, 2011 Read Full Article

‘Serious’ Error Found in Carbon Savings for Biofuels

by James Kanter (New York Times)  The European Union is overestimating the reductions in greenhouse gas emissions achieved through reliance on biofuels as a result of a “serious accounting error,” according to a draft opinion by an influential committee of

September 16, 2011 Read Full Article

South Africa’s Bio-Economy ‘Stymied by Government Policy’

by Sarah Wild  (Business Day)  Biofuels Association president Andrew Makenete says SA has the technology and resources to develop its bio-economy but was stymied by a lack of regulations and government policy SA HAD the technology and resources to develop its

September 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Fixing A Broken Biofuel Incentive Program

by Robert Rapier (Forbes)  ...My Plan: Award Direct Per Gallon Subsidies for Oil Displacement Instead of offering grants and loan guarantees for cellulosic ethanol producers — and forcing blenders to pay when they can’t purchase product — simply change the system

September 15, 2011 Read Full Article

Mission Petitions US Regulator for RFS2 Approval of Its g-Palm Biodiesel

(MarketWatch/Mission NewEnergy)  Mission NewEnergy Limited , a global provider of environmentally sustainable biofuels, has announced the in-house development of an improved palm oil supply chain process called "Mission g-Palm" that maximizes green house gas savings when producing g-Palm Biodiesel. Mission has

September 15, 2011 Read Full Article

China is Interested in Biofuels – Why Not the West?

by John C.K. Daly (OilPrice.com/Clean Techies)   ...According to PetroChina’s Petrochemical Research Institute deputy chief engineer Fu Xingguo, China is looking at generating 933,000 tons annually of fuel ethanol and 165,000 tons of biodiesel. According to Fu, China is looking to

September 15, 2011 Read Full Article

SAFER Bioeconomy Case Study Series: Tennessee Renewable Energy & Economic Development Council

(The Southeast Agriculture & Forest Energy Resources Alliance)... The Governor’s Conference on Biofuels came on the heels of the Biofuels Initiative in May 2007, further spreading the word about new economic opportunities and providing the spark for the creation of TREEDC. It was at

September 15, 2011 Read Full Article

Reigniting Subsidy Debate, Obama Takes on Oil, Gas

by Amy Harder (National Journal)  President Obama on Monday (September 12, 2011) asked Congress to end subsidies for all oil and gas companies, which could save the government more than $4 billion a year, to help pay for his jobs

September 14, 2011 Read Full Article

House Hearing Ignores Critical Facts about America’s Ethanol Industry

by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association)  America’s ethanol producers are on pace to produce nearly 40 million metric tons of livestock feed in 2011 – a volume greater than all the corn used on cattle feedlots all across the country. 

September 14, 2011 Read Full Article

EU Biofuel Rules 'Skewed against Imports' – Academic

(Agra-net.com)  Carbon savings from biodiesel produced using imported palm oil are being deliberately underestimated by the EU, a researcher has claimed. Dr Gerot Pehnelt, a member of the academic advisory board to the European Forum for Sustainable Development (EFNE) - which lobbies on behalf

September 14, 2011 Read Full Article

From the Parliament: Opposition Warns against Rukwa Bio-Fuel Project

(The Daily News)  THE government has been warned against allocating over 320,000 hectares of prime land in Rukwa Region to an American agro-firm, Agrisol Energy, which is seeking to undertake large scale commercial farming for food, livestock, and jatropha for

September 14, 2011 Read Full Article

Fly the (Hic!) Friendly Skies: Renewable Jet Fuel from Alcohol

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...But a handful of companies such as Cobalt, Gevo, Terrabon, LanzaTech and ZeaChem, are shaking up the emerging aviation biofuels markets by developing renewable aviation fuels from ethanol and/or biobutanol. ...“An alcohol molecule, looking at it

September 14, 2011 Read Full Article

25x'25 Brief Offers Tool for Engaging Policy Makers in Push for Clean Energy Future

(25 x '25)   The renewable energy sector has been the fastest growing domestic energy sector for the past five years, yet the expansion of biomass energy solutions in America is at risk. As Congress and the White House seek

September 13, 2011 Read Full Article

Sugar Could Be Produced Again, Says Minister

SEÁN Mac Connell (Irish Times)  Ireland could be producing sugar and ethanol again when the European Commission ends its current quota system in 2016, the Agricultural Science Association annual conference in Maynooth heard yesterday. Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney said figures in

September 13, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol Critics Target Mandates as Subsidy Ends

by Philip Brasher (Gannett/Des Moines Register)  ...The industry likely stands a better chance of protecting the annual usage mandates, known as the Renewable Fuel Standard, from being weakened by livestock or environmental interests. “I don’t see that as an avenue

September 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Keystone BioFuels Paves Way for Evolving Fuel industry

Monica Von Dobeneck (The Patriot-News /PennLive.c0m)  Ben Wooten is doubling his workforce, quadrupling his space and increasing his production tenfold at his Keystone BioFuels in Lower Allen Twp.    Not bad in a stagnant economy, he said. Wooten said government

September 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Obama Says Advanced Biofuels a Part of Making America “Number One Again”

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Washington,  President Obama said that building the the next generation of manufacturing, including advanced biofuels, is “how America can be number one again. ...His proposal also called for a national infrastructure bank capitalized with

September 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Exclusive: EU to Delay Action on Biofuels' Indirect Impact

by Charlie Dunmore  (Reuters)  The European Union's top climate and energy officials have agreed to delay by up to seven years rules that would penalize individual biofuels for their indirect climate impacts, details of the dealshowed. The political compromise is designed to

September 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Veterans, Politicians Team Up in Battle to Change Energy Policy

by Steve Leone (Renewable Energy World)  While the price of military intervention is often measured in American lives, in this case it was the staggering amount of American dollars that most clearly made his point. In today’s dollars, keeping just

September 09, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol Industry Appealing to Obama

by Philip Brasher (Des Moines Register)  President Obama’s speech to Congress on the economy has given an ethanol industry trade group to pitch biofuel as a job creator. In an ad that will run tomorrow in the Politico newspaper, the

September 08, 2011 Read Full Article

Gaetz Bill Would Let Gasoline Sellers off the Ethanol Hook

by Tom McLaughlin (TheDestinLog.com)  State Rep. Matt Gaetz has proposed the repeal of the Florida Renewable Fuel Standard Act. If a bill he introduced in early August becomes law, gasoline distributors would no longer be required to sell fuel containing 9

September 08, 2011 Read Full Article

FRA and Biofuel Development

by Dick Carmical  (Forest Business Network)   ...The technologies to make vehicle fuel from wood on a commercial scale remain unproven. The only bioenergy technologies that are proven, making wood pellets or burning wood to make electricity, in most cases,

September 08, 2011 Read Full Article

Bedford Biofuels Threatens Kenya's Tana Delta

(Nature Canada)  Nature Canada is concerned that a Canadian company – Bedford Biofuels – plans plans to set up a jatropha tree plantation in Kenya's Tana Delta, an area that provides refuge for 350 bird species. ...The latest news from our

September 08, 2011 Read Full Article

Sugar Mills not Keen on Selling Ethanol to Oil Companies as Alcohol Industry Gives Better Profit

by Jayashree Bhosale & Madhvi Sally (Economic Times)  Sugar mills aren't keen on selling ethanol to petroleum marketing companies this year because the byproduct fetches more money if sold to the alcohol industry. The union government launched the ethanol-blending programme last

September 08, 2011 Read Full Article

It’s All about Sugar as Prices Surge and Supply Fears Grow

by Joelle Brink (Biofuels Digest Asia)  ...We imagine “food vs fuel” in terms of grain shortages, but where food and fuel actually collide is on the global sugar markets. “While sugar is widely available in the west and its price

September 08, 2011 Read Full Article

Ralph Avalone Letter to Mitt Romney

Dear Mr. Romney, I have just finished watching your press conference from Las Vegas, Nevada introducing your plan for job creation here in America and I heard your question: "Where are the Green Jobs?" You said that we are an energy rich

September 07, 2011 Read Full Article

An 'Energy Policy' Bought and Paid for

(Ocala.com) Editorial:  Here's what's wrong with America's energy "policy." Reeling under a crippling deficit, Congress steadfastly refuses to eliminate lucrative tax breaks and subsidies for the most profitable companies in the world — the oil and gas industries. And never mind

September 07, 2011 Read Full Article

Future Ethanol Policy Changes

by Kent Theisse (Corn and Soybean Digest Blogs and Opinions)  ... Many people are very excited about producing ethanol from woodchips, switchgrass, algae and other substances; however, most of this type of ethanol production is still in the early research and

September 07, 2011 Read Full Article

Join the Green Revolution

(Telegraph Journal) Editorial:  Two big concerns are shaping global research and development in the 21st century: the need for sustainable energy, and the need for sustainable food supplies. Canadians are increasingly engaged in energy research, but a recent report from the

September 07, 2011 Read Full Article

Federal Policy for Reducing Uncertainty for Advanced Biofuels Producers

by Brent Erickson (BIO/Biofuels Digest)  As any number of economic analysts have noted, continued policy uncertainty is holding businesses back from the hiring and investment needed to get the economy moving again. The advanced biofuel industry has been trying to

September 07, 2011 Read Full Article

ENERGY: Biofuels Policy Supported, but More Needs to Be Done

by Alan Van Ormer (Prairie Business Magazine)  Many industry leaders support a biofuels policy, but also believe that more things can be done to help address any deficiencies in a national policy. Hunter Roberts, State Energy Policy Director for South Dakota,

September 06, 2011 Read Full Article

Merkel Coalition Partners Attack 'Failed' Government Biofuel Rollout

(Deutsche Welle)  Angela Merkel's junior coalition partners, the liberal Free Democrats, have criticized the botched introduction of the E10 biofuel. The party called on the environment minister to revise its policy on green fuels. The pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), Angela Merkel's

August 31, 2011 Read Full Article

China’s Vision for Renewable Energy: The Status of Bioenergy and Bioproduct Research and Commercialization

Elizabeth R. Nesbitt, Paul Thiers, Johnway Gao, Sharon Shoemaker, Manuel Garcia-Perez, Julie Carrier, Joy Doran-Peterson, John Morgan, Guangyi Wang, Pierre Christian Wensel, Shulin Chen  (Journal of International Commerce and Economics)  The Chinese government is vigorously promoting commercialization of renewable energy and bioproducts, given environmental issues plus food, energy, and national security concerns,

August 30, 2011 Read Full Article

“Be Part of Change, or Be Left Behind”, Beattie Challenges Australia on Biofuels

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Australia, former Queensland premier Peter Beattie issued a stark challenge to Australia on biofuels, at the opening of the Australian Alternative Fuels Summit in Brisbane. “As President Obama has said, ‘the country that leads on

August 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Joint Nature Conservation Committee Publishes "Indirect Land Use Change from Biofuel Production: Implications for Biodiversity"

by Monika Bertzky, Valerie Kapos & Jörn P.W. Scharlemann (Joint Nature Conservation Committee)  Inference from production statistics and modelling studies suggest that iLUC has occurred, is likely to increase with increasing demand for biofuels and needs to be considered when assessing the

August 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Vitter Seeks ‘Parity’ over Alternative Energy

by Alan Blinder  (American Press)  U.S. Sen. David Vitter vowed again Tuesday to push Congress to consider objectively the merits of potential alternative energy sources instead of giving preferential treatment to some. “Congress has been using exactly the wrong model,” Vitter

August 29, 2011 Read Full Article

US Biodiesel Industry Producing Record Volumes

(Farm Business)  US biodiesel production reached a new monthly high of 81 million gallons in June, according to the latest EPA statistics, marking a third consecutive month of record volumes and continuing a remarkable turnaround in which biodiesel production in

August 29, 2011 Read Full Article

The Unicorn and the Fairy: Corn Declares War on Cellulose

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  The National Corn Growers Association declares War on cellulosic biofuels, calling them “non-existent”, then mysteriously removes the blog post. What gives? Ten days ago, Cathryn Wojciki, communications manager for the National Corn Growers Association, wrote a

August 26, 2011 Read Full Article

Harkin Backs Ethanol Expansion

by Daniel Looker (Agriculture.com)  Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) told the American Coalition for Ethanol Wednesday that he’ll continue to work for passage of a bill that would expand ethanol’s access to markets. It won’t be easy.  Harkin acknowledged growing ethanol opposition

August 26, 2011 Read Full Article

Is Independence Down South Good for the US?

by Michael McAdams (Advanced Biofuels Association/Biorefining Magazine)  ...Below are some guiding principles for consistent public policies to foster growth of the domestic biofuels industry in America. Technology Neutrality: Don’t pick a winner! The government’s track record of picking winning technologies does

August 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Lights, Camera, Congress…

by Michael McAdams (Biorefining Magazine)  ...Washington’s jolting performance and the economic aftershocks have those of you on the verge of commercializing your replacement fuels questioning whether Congress and the White House can successfully provide the policy tools needed to ensure

August 24, 2011 Read Full Article

NNFCC to Investigate Environmental Impacts of Algae Bioenergy

(National Centre for Biorenewable Energy, Fuels and Materials)   The new research will explore what needs to be done to sustainably produce bioenergy, biofuels and biochemicals from algae in the UK. Algae have the potential to make a significant contribution towards our future

August 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Obama Sets Sights on Making U.S. No. 1 in Alternative Energy

by Jerry Hagstrom (AgWeek)  Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s Republican presidential candidacy and President Obama’s comments on ethanol have thrown the corn-based ethanol industry into turmoil as it struggles to convince Congress to provide assistance to build blender pumps. Texas Gov. Rick

August 23, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuel Production: A Threat to Livelihoods

by Mario Osava (Aljazeera)  Biofuels are an alternative energy source that can drive local development by generating jobs, know-how and technology. But they can also cause social damage, as locals fear in the case of industrial-scale exploitation of babassu palm

August 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Examining Biofuels Policy

by  Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay  (Chemical and Engineering News)  Government mandates have shaped the market but not always for the best By 2050, the global population will hit between 7.5 billion and 10.5 billion. Energy demands will soar, and traditional energy supplies, such

August 22, 2011 Read Full Article

USDA Official: Ag Economy Is Sound but Rural Communities Need Boost

by Ross Dolan (The Daily Republic)  The nation’s agricultural economy is sound but many rural communities are not reaping the benefits, said Dallas Tonsager, undersecretary for rural development with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The South Dakota native would like

August 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Vilsack: USDA Will Continue to Push for Blender Pump Expansion

by Kris Bevill (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  The USDA’s Aug. 17 announcement of 900 Rural Energy for America Program grants included just 21 awards for blender pumps. USDA officials promise, however, that more funding is on the way. The announcement highlighted

August 22, 2011 Read Full Article

POTUS Puts Focus on Agriculture and Biofuels

by Cindy (Corn Commentary)  President Obama’s Midwest bus tour this week really put a spotlight on agriculture and biofuels. The POTUS visited three of the nation’s top four ethanol producing states,accounting for more than 42 percent of the country’s ethanol

August 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels and the Policy Implications for China

Qi Wang and Zhihong Tian (Crawford School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University and Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd. The paper explores China’s biofuel policy and compares biofuel development in China and the rest of the world. It is argued

August 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Peterson Questions Federal Biofuels Plan

by Don Davis (Duluth News Tribune)  Minnesota’s senior congressman said that the plan administration officials announced this week probably will not work and threatens Minnesota’s 21 ethanol plants. “I think that is a big a problem,” said U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson,

August 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol Industry Weighs Options

by Joseph Morton (World Herald Bureau/Omaha.com)  The ethanol industry is preparing itself for life after federal subsidies. Key tax credits that pay blenders for using the renewable fuel are set to expire at the end of 2011. At a cost to

August 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Increase in Demand from India, China to Drive up Food Prices: Obama

(The Economic Times of India)  US President Barack Obama today highlighted the need to develop biofuels out of things that do not involve fuel chain, arguing that increase in demand from India and China would drive up the food prices. "As

August 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Biodiesel Industry Producing Record Volumes, Fueling Job Creation

by National Biodiesel Board (Biodiesel Magazine)  ...The new numbers, coming after Congress reinstated the biodiesel tax incentive this year, demonstrate the power that strong domestic energy policy can have in helping create jobs and economic activity. Despite the weak economy, the

August 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Washington’s New Era

by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association/Ethanol Producer Magazine)  ...But the mischief that lawmakers are hiding behind a veil of budget concern extends far beyond the tax credit for ethanol blending. Using the appropriations process, lawmakers from the oil patch and elsewhere

August 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Chevron Seeks to Expand Caltex Network via Enhanced Retailer Program, All Systems Go for B5 Biodiesel Launch

by Paul Tan (Paul Tan's Automotive News)  Chevron Malaysia Limited, the operator of retail brand Caltex, is seeking to expand Caltex’s footprint in Malaysia, and the company plans to draw in retailers via its revitalised Retailer Owned, Retailer Operated program,

August 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Coco-Biodiesel May Solve Country's Dependence on Oil Imports

by Jerome Carlo R. Paunan  (Philippine Information Agency)  The Aquino administration is eying the potential of the oil derived from coconuts or "coco-biodiesel" to reduce the country's overdependence on imported fuels, an official from the Philippine Coconut Authority said Tuesday. ...A

August 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Bioenergy Policy Planks Promote Sustainability, Fairness

(25 x '25)  Earlier this week (July 28, 2011), a coalition of animal agriculture, commodity crop, general farm organization and conservation leaders issued a set of guiding principles and policy planks aimed at reconciling the expansion of biofuel production with maintaining

August 16, 2011 Read Full Article

US Corn-Belt Farmers: 'The Country Has Turned on Us'

by Suzanne Goldenberg (The Guardian)  As Congress reviews 30 years of corn ethanol subsidies, the global food crisis has shone a negative light on biofuel production There were times when Arlyn Schipper could almost feel heroic on his family farm in

August 16, 2011 Read Full Article

President Visiting Three of Top Four Ethanol States

by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com)  During his Midwest bus tour this week, President Barack Obama is visiting three of the nation’s top four ethanol producing states, accounting for more than 42 percent of the country’s ethanol production. The president’s first audience question today

August 16, 2011 Read Full Article

National Algae Association Stymied in Getting Explanation of Algae Exclusion from Billion Ton Update

(National Algae Association)  National Algae Association Executive Director Barry Cohen has issued the following statement in response to the specific exclusion of algae from the Billion Ton Update issued by the Department of Energy: "Other than to be told that leadership

August 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Advanced Biofuels USA Is Disappointed in White House Plan for National Security Drop-In Biofuels Investment

by Robert E. Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA)  As a tie-in to President Obama’s current bus tour promoting his job creation plans, the White House has issued a press release promoting a three-year $510 million dollar plan to fund “drop-in” biofuel

August 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Seeking the Blending Sweet Spot

by Kris Bevill (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  For years, in coffee shops and grain elevators across the upper Midwest, independent thinkers have voiced their opinions on the benefits of midlevel ethanol blends. Tales of fueling the old Buick, or otherwise unapproved

August 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Sizing the Clean Economy: A National and Regional Green Jobs Assessment

Mark Muro, Jonathan Rothwell, Devashree Saha (The Brookings Institution)  Growth through Innovation, Environment, Cities, Competitiveness, Jobs and the Economy The “green” or “clean” or low-carbon economy—defined as the sector of the economy that produces goods and services with an environmental benefit—remains at once a compelling aspiration and

August 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Karnataka's Second Bio-Diesel Plant to Come up Near Devanahalli

by Aparajita Ray  (Daily News and Analysis)  A bio-diesel manufacturing unit with a 50-tonne daily capacity will be set up near Devanahalli in four months, Karnataka State Biofuel Development Board chairman YB Ramakrishna told DNA on the sidelines of a World

August 16, 2011 Read Full Article

EPA Releases Draft Policy for Ensuring Scientific Integrity / Agency seeking public comment

(US Environmental Protection Agency)  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency August 5, 2011, is releasing its draft Scientific Integrity Policy for public comment. The draft policy reflects the Obama Administration’s commitment to the ethical standards and transparency necessary for ensuring the

August 15, 2011 Read Full Article

Biomass 2011: Replace the Whole Barrel, Supply the Whole Market Presentations Posted

(US Department of Energy)  ...More than 600 speakers, moderators, sponsors, exhibitors, and attendees were able to listen to discussions about the ongoing challenges and achievements in the bioenergy industry. Biomass 2011 addressed key issues in important areas, such as feedstock supply, conversion pathways,

August 15, 2011 Read Full Article

OPINION: Domestic Biofuels Are Economic and Energy Security

by Stephanie Herseth Sandlin and Thomas W. Ewing  (The Daily Republic)   For decades, securing our nation’s energy future has been a national priority — yet policymakers still have not reached consensus on a long-term, comprehensive platform that will ensure our

August 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Diesel Power Ready to Meet Challenge To Achieve Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions & Increased Fuel Efficiency in Trucks & Buses

(Diesel Technology Forum)  Diesel engines – which power more than 95 percent of America’s commercial trucks and 85 percent of its buses – will play a central role of the United States’ new effort to reduce fuel consumption and lower

August 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Udall to Introduce Bill that Would Level Playing Field for Advanced Biofuels

(Senator Tom Udall) U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) today announced his plans to introduce bipartisan legislation in the U.S. Senate that would help level the playing field for advanced biofuels like algae by reforming the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) to

August 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Franken Visits Farmfest

by Janet Kubat Willette (AgriNews.com)  Expect direct payments to take a hit in the next farm bill, Sen. Al Franken told a Farmfest audience Aug. 3. The Minnesota Democrat said the super committee of 12 Congresspeople could shape the new farm bill

August 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Mandate Emerges as Ethanol’s Sacred Cow

by Amy Harder (National Journal)  ...By year's end, the congressional “super committee”  charged with reducing the federal deficit likely will topple the $6 billion in annual ethanol industry tax credits and a corresponding government tariff on imported ethanol. But another prong

August 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Green Groups: ‘Supercommittee’ Should Repeal Oil Industry Tax Breaks

by Andrew Restuccia  (The Hill/E2Wire)  A dozen environmental groups Tuesday told congressional leaders that lawmakers who support slashing oil industry tax breaks and other subsidies should be appointed to the deficit-cutting “supercommittee.” In a letter, the groups urged the 12-member panel to come

August 10, 2011 Read Full Article

EU Approval of Certification Standards for Biofuels Brings Transparency and Supports Planning by Sugar-Energy Industry

(UNICA)  The European Commission’s approval of certification schemes for biofuels, announced on July 19th, is an important step to add transparency to the issue and help Member States meet reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions. The measure will also benefit

August 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Doerr Gives U.S. a ‘C’ for Alternative-Energy

by Ari Levy (Bloomberg)  John Doerr, head of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’s alternative-energy practice, said he would give the U.S. a C grade for development of green technology, which trails innovation in Internet and biotechnology. His grade would have been

August 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Coal and Ethanol Are Not Alternative Energy Policy

by Andrew Smolski (OilPrice.com)  ...(E)nergy policy is as defunct as ever and on most fronts the US is lagging far behind. ... (T)he US will need this Energy policy to spur growth, create jobs, and remain competitive going forward. Yet,

August 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Breakthrough In Saudi Arabia's Policy Toward Ethanol Byproducts Announced

(AgriMarketing)  ...Culminating years of U.S. Grains Council efforts, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has added corn gluten feed (CGF) and distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS) to its import feed ingredient subsidy list, creating a strong incentive for sales. It

August 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Bharat Petroleum, SG Biofuels Ink Deal for Massive Jatropha 2.0 Deployment in India

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In India, SG Biofuels and Bharat Renewable Energy, a unit of India’s second largest oil company, Bharat Petroleum, signed a landmark commercial agreement  to develop and deploy elite hybrids of Jatropha across a total 86,000

August 10, 2011 Read Full Article

European Biodiesel Board Slams EU Thinking on Biofuel Land Use Impacts

(Argus Media)  Europe's biodiesel producers have commissioned an independent review of a policy document on biodiesel's indirect effects on land use change, which the European Biodiesel Board (EBB) maintains has skewed the European Commission's thinking on the subject to the

August 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Have We Seen the End of Jatropha as a Potential Biofuel?

by Brian Westenhaus (OilPrice.com)  According to Promode Kant from the Institute of Green Economy in India and Shuirong Wu of the Chinese Academy of Forestry some 12.8 million ha (49,421 square miles) are expected to be planted with jatropha by

August 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Aviation Calls For Government Backing To Boost Biofuels

by Graham Warwick (Aviation Week)  The U.S. aviation industry is pressing Congress to extend funding for goverment programs providing support to start up commercial-scale production of renewable biofuels. ...Work on the 2012 Farm Bill is getting under way, and witnesses at

August 09, 2011 Read Full Article

Algal Scientific Seeks Funds for Fertilizer-Eating Algae Project

by Ben Edwards  (Bloomberg)  ...The Plymouth, Michigan-based company is raising $500,000 to complete demonstration plants and will seek the remaining funds in the next six to nine months, Chief Science Officer Geoff Horst said in a telephone interview. The plants

August 09, 2011 Read Full Article

China Clarifies Consumption Tax Exemption for Biodiesel Production

(China Briefing)  Following its announcement in December last year that pure biodiesel made from waste plant and animal oil is exempt from consumption tax, the Chinese government has recently clarified the actual scope of animal and plant oils subject to such

August 09, 2011 Read Full Article

Is New Zealand’s New Government Killing Biofuels?

by Joelle Brink (Biofuels Digest Asia)  Months are passing but New Zealand ’s new government still won’t say whether or not it will incentivise biofuels production and new plant construction. Latest in this shoot-your-own-economy-in-the foot saga is Ecodiesel’s multi-million dollar

August 09, 2011 Read Full Article

Sen. Franken Fights for Future of Minnesota Farmers

by Senator Al Franken (D-MN)  (HometownSource.com)  ...Cellulosic ethanol is happening.  The first commercial-scale cellulosic plant is being built this year in Iowa.  And I want Minnesota to capitalize on the energy—and economic growth—that could come from wood wastes, grasses, and

August 04, 2011 Read Full Article

Who’s on the List? The U.S. EPA Pegs a Handful of Cellulosic Producers to Contribute to Next Year’s RFS Goal

by Kris Bevill (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  In June, the U.S EPA issued its proposal to reduce the coming year’s cellulosic biofuels volume target for the renewable fuel standard (RFS). The RFS goals set by Congress in 2007 call for increasing

August 04, 2011 Read Full Article

OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Dems Face Uphill Battle on Oil Tax Breaks

by Andrew Restuccia and Ben Geman (The Hill/E2Wire)   ...Some Democrats are acknowledging that their push to strip billions of dollars in oil-and-gas industry tax breaks through the debt-ceiling deal faces big hurdles. Democrats see the bipartisan special committee tasked with finding

August 03, 2011 Read Full Article

Reid: Clean Energy on Democrats' Agenda after Recess

by Andrew Restuccia   (The Hill/E2Wire)    Clean energy will be part of a broader jobs agenda that Senate Democrats will pursue when lawmakers return from their August recess, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday. “Clean energy jobs, they are changing

August 03, 2011 Read Full Article

Malaysia Plans Green Palm Oil Certification Scheme- Paper

by Niluksi Koswanage   (Reuters Africa)  Malaysia, the word's No.2 palm oil producer, will come up with a certification scheme to ensure the tropical oil is grown without clearing forests and destroying wildlife, a newspaper reported on Monday. The Business Times quoted

August 03, 2011 Read Full Article

Financing as Innovative as Clean Energy Technology

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Financing of clean energy got you down?   The Green Bank clears a key Senate hurdle, and Bank of America chairman Chad Holliday helps explain why that’s important Last month, amidst the brouhaha of the US debt

August 03, 2011 Read Full Article

The Solid Science behind E15

by Gen. Wesley K. Clark (Ret.) (The Hill)  ...And yet, in his op-ed published July 26 in The Hill, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) ignores the physical, economic and national security costs of our nation’s continued dependence on foreign oil. Instead,

August 02, 2011 Read Full Article

US Debt Deal: Biofuels Industry Reaction

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Brian Jennings, Executive Vice President of the American Coalition for Ethanol “ACE and our members are disappointed that the ethanol compromise was not included in the final debt limit deal just because some in Congress

August 02, 2011 Read Full Article

Energy Programs Prepare for Debt Deal Pain

by Darren Goode & Darren Samuelsohn   (Politico)  Popular energy and environmental programs should prepare for a decade of spending cuts under the debt deal reached late Sunday between the White House and congressional leaders. Less clear, however, is the effect that

August 01, 2011 Read Full Article

Still Time to Get Biofuels Support Right

by Brent Erickson (Biofuels Digest) Reports of the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit’s (VEETC) early demise have been a bit overblown. Though several groups and reporters believed the die was cast and the potential revenue savings would be redirected to

August 01, 2011 Read Full Article

Imported Oil Driving U.S. Trade Imbalance; Domestic Ethanol, Feed Providing Some Counterbalance

(Renewable Fuels Association)  America’s trade deficit is growing and one reason for that is our crippling dependence on imported oil.  According to U.S. Census Bureau data, our appetite for foreign oil accounted for 60% of the nation’s $50 billion trade

August 01, 2011 Read Full Article

Advocates Pay to Tout Oil, Debt Agendas at Iowa Straw Poll

by Jennifer Jacobs  (Des Moines Register)   An air-conditioned “igloo” paid for by the Iowa Energy Forum will rise up from the straw poll campus in Ames next month, an attraction meant to woo Iowans’ affection with free treats, kids’

August 01, 2011 Read Full Article

Gull Biofuels Launches E85 Amid Fading Support for New Zealand’s Biofuels Subsidy

by Joelle Brink (Biofuels Digest Asia)  In New Zealand, the government’s policy to promote biofuels is facing the axe on the same day that Gull New Zealand launches GullForcePro, its new E85 offering for Kiwi performance drivers.  READ MORE and

July 29, 2011 Read Full Article

SWAFEA Final Report Lays Groundwork for the Deployment of Sustainable Aviation Biofuels in Europe

(GreenAirOnline)  Although the aviation sector has a good track record in reducing its environmental impact through efficiency gains, it is highly unlikely to reduce or even stabilise its emissions through this means alone, but biofuels present a real potential for

July 29, 2011 Read Full Article

President Obama Announces New Fuel Economy Standards

(The White House)  President Obama today announced the next phase in the Administration’s program to increase fuel efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas pollution for all new cars and trucks sold in the United States. These new standards will cover cars

July 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Chu, Vilsack, Pfannenstiel Headline, Light up BIOMASS 2011 Congress

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Washington, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, and US Assistant Secretary of the Navy Jackalyne Pfannenstiel provided a rousing opening to the DOE’s annual BIOMASS congress in Washington. Opening

July 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Energy and Forestry Programs Examined During Farm Bill's Title IX (Energy) Hearing

by Robert E. Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA)   Many programs authorized by the 2008 Farm Bill will expire in 2012 unless they are included in a new Farm Bill. Among those programs that would expire are all the bioenergy initiatives

July 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Woodside Says Ethanol Industry Willing to Give Back Tax Break for Debt Reduction

by Lori Potter  (Kearney Hub)  The ethanol industry is willing to immediately give up $1.3 billion in tax breaks for federal debt reduction. However, that probably can’t happen unless authorizing legislation is attached to a successful debt ceiling-budget reduction bill, said

July 25, 2011 Read Full Article

The Work at Hand for E15 Market Expansion

by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association/Ethanol Producer Magazine)  Back in October, I wrote on the RFA blog, “The E-Xchange,” about the steps that would be necessary to make E15 the standard fuel available in the United States, in much the

July 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Farm Bill Energy Title: Rural Energy for America Program

(Environmental and Energy Study Institute)  On July 19, 2011, the Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC) and Environmental and Energy Study Institute(EESI) held a briefing on the energy title of the Farm Bill, with a special focus on the Rural Energy for

July 22, 2011 Read Full Article

US Air Force Wants Biofuel Switch

(News24)  The US Air Force is ready to switch to biofuels to help power its warplanes but the price of alternative fuels remains too high, military officials said. Anxious to reduce its reliance on oil, the Air Force has approved the

July 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Air Force, Army Team Up to Explore 'Green' Solutions

by Master Sgt. Amaani Lyle  (U.S. Air Force)  Senior leaders from the Department of Defense, federal agencies, Air Force and Army discussed the strategic importance and way ahead for energy solutions during the Army-Air Force Energy Forum here (Arlington, VA)

July 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Don't Turn the Clock Back on Building Better Fuels: ABFA Letter to Senate Committee

(Advanced Biofuels Association)  The Advanced Biofuels Association (ABFA) today sent the following letter to U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Chairman Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Ranking Member, opposing any efforts to repeal Section 526 of

July 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Former Iowa First Lady Runs for Congress on Energy Issues

by Cindy Zimmerman   (DomesticFuel.com)  Wind energy and biofuels are part of the campaign for Congress launched this week by former Iowa first lady Christie Vilsack. ...Vilsack officially announced her bid to represent Iowa’s newly formed 4th district yesterday (July 19,

July 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels Mandates Around the World

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...The bulk of mandates comes from the EU-27, where the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) specifies a 10 percent renewables content by 2020 across the entire membership – though 7 percent of that will come from

July 21, 2011 Read Full Article

Sao Paulo to Fuel 160 City Buses with Amyris' Renewable Diesel

by Bryan Sims (Biorefining Magazine)  In response to Brazil’s growing need to include low-sulfur fuel in its diesel pool, Amyris Brasil S.A., a subsidiary of Amryis Inc., will supply an expected 160 city buses in the Brazilian city of Sao

July 21, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol Makers Losing $6 Billion Tax Break Keep $6.9 Billion

(San Francisco Chronicle/Bloomberg)  Ethanol manufacturers are set to thrive even if they have to give up $6 billion a year in U.S. tax subsidies because a government mandate for increased use of the fuel may add $6.9 billion a year

July 20, 2011 Read Full Article

National Security, Energy Security, and Environmental Imperatives

by General Charles F. Wald and David W. Conover  (Bipartisan Policy Center/The Hill/Congress Blog)   News reports indicate that some Senators may seek to repeal a provision of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) during Thursday’s consideration of

July 20, 2011 Read Full Article

First EU Sustainability Schemes for Biofuels Get the Go-Ahead

(European Commission)  Brussels, 19 July 2011 - Biofuels can represent an environmentally-friendly replacement of fossil fuels. However, we need to make sure that tropical forests and carbon rich peatlands are not turned into oil palm or sugarcane plantations. We also

July 20, 2011 Read Full Article

Biodiesel Shipment Could Be First Step in Fueling Base

by Suzanne Ulbrich (ENCToday)  A delivery aboard Camp Lejeune Monday morning marked the culmination of a test project to provide renewable fuels for North Carolina’s military. Officials aboard Camp Lejeune received 800 gallons of state grown and processed biodiesel fuel as part

July 20, 2011 Read Full Article

US Energy Department Celebrates Loan Guarantee Successes as Stimulus-Supported 1705 Program Comes to Close

by Jonathan Silver (Department of Energy/Biofuels Digest)  ...the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) has been extremely busy, committing or closing 19 additional financings of clean energy projects – including one of the country’s first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol

July 20, 2011 Read Full Article

Will the EU Reveal Judging Criteria for Biofuel Bodies?

by Jessica Shankleman Green groups slam Commission's "back room" processes for approving sustainable biofuel certification schemes Green groups will today learn if the European Commission is ready to lift the lid on the methods it used to decide whether biofuels can be certified as

July 19, 2011 Read Full Article

Oil Is Biggest Military Weakness

by Senator Mark Udall (Politico)  The Pentagon released its first-ever operational energy strategy last month — a plan that could dramatically cut costs and save service members’ lives. The plan is not about fielding a new weapons system, but rather

July 19, 2011 Read Full Article

Analysis: Ethanol to Edge Pigs for Corn Use, but Not Quite Yet

by Charles Abbott and Karl Plume  (Reuters)  Ethanol appears almost certain to win the food-versus-fuel contest in the United States. But not just yet. The Agriculture Department forecast that a tad more corn will be used to make ethanol than to feed livestock

July 19, 2011 Read Full Article

Alliance Releases Wood-to-Energy Policy Roadmap

(25 x '25)  The National 25x'25 Alliance released this morning a new National Wood-To-Energy Roadmap - A Guide for Developing Sustainable Woody Biomass Solutions. The report that shows how focused use of woody biomass can help meet America's energy needs

July 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Analysis: EU Cushions Biodiesel from Damning Carbon Research

by Charlie Dunmore  (Reuters)  The EU will protect existing investment in its $13 billion biodiesel sector even as it acts on new evidence that suggests making the fuel from food crops can do more harm than good in fighting climate

July 18, 2011 Read Full Article

United Arab Emirates Seeks $100b Investment

by Shehab A. Makahleh (Zawya)  The UAE government wants to attract $100 billion (Dh367 billion) worth of investment in alternative and sustainable energy projects by 2020. Feras Dahlan, CEO of Dar Al Tawasol and First Deputy Chairman of the Organising Committee

July 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Leading By Example: How Energy Innovation is Strengthening America’s Military

by Aaron Hull (Advanced Biofuels USA)   The Pew Project on National Security, Energy, and Climate hosted an event titled Leading By Example: How Energy Innovation is Strengthening America’s Military on July 7, 2011. Those in attendance included former Senator John

July 15, 2011 Read Full Article

Navy Secretary Mabus Unabashed about ‘Choosing Winners’ in Fuel Market

by John Tomasic (Colorado Independent)  Makes case again for Udall Energy Security Act Coming on the heels of Colorado Senator Mark Udall’s reintroduction of the Energy Security Act, which would boost efforts to power the military with alternative energy, U.S. Navy Secretary

July 15, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels 2.0

Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  The rise of themochemical biofuels, the power of markets, and the anarchic essence of energy development ...The “failure” of cellulosic ethanol is a failure of the policy framework, I said. It was suicidal to pass legislation that

July 15, 2011 Read Full Article

AMA Wants Motorcycles Included in Study of Ethanol-Blended Fuel

(American Motorcycle Association)  The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) is asking a key U.S. House panel to include motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) in any future study of ethanol-blended gasoline. In a letter sent July 11 to the House Energy and Environment

July 14, 2011 Read Full Article

Sensenbrenner Wants to See Results of DOE's E15 Tests

(Wisconsin Ag Connection)  Wisconsin Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner is stepping up his efforts to do away with proposed mandates that would require gasoline for newer vehicles to use 15-percent ethanol. This week, the Brookfield Republican wrote to U.S. Department of Energy

July 14, 2011 Read Full Article

Ending US Ethanol Subsidies Could Be Bullish for European Prices

(Platts)  A plan by US senators to end ethanol subsidies on July 31 could prove bullish for the European market, trading sources said Wednesday. "It should be pretty supportive, the EU needs the [US ethanol] supply," one source said. ...Europe's ethanol market

July 14, 2011 Read Full Article

The Controversy over Ethanol

by Chris Chmura  (My Fox Tampa Bay)  Move over regular, mid-grade, and premium -- there’s another choice at select gas stations: Ethanol-free unleaded. It’s as much as 50 cents per gallon more expensive than a conventional fill-up, but some consumers insist

July 14, 2011 Read Full Article

US Navy Issues 350K Gallon RFP for Advanced Biofuels

(US Department of Defense; Navy)  The Government has a requirement for 100,000 USG of Hydrotreated Renewable JP-5 (HRJ5) and 350,000 USG of Hydrotreated Renewable F-76 (HRD76) to support the Navy's "Sail the Great Green Fleet" initiative. This requirement is for

July 14, 2011 Read Full Article

Grassley Q&A: Looking Forward with Biodiesel

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) (Biodiesel Magazine)  Q.  Why do you support the production of biodiesel? A.  Too much of America’s energy comes from fossil fuels imported from countries that don’t like us.  We can reduce dependence on foreign oil, and be

July 13, 2011 Read Full Article

E-15 Gasoline Won't Be Sold for at Least a Year, Watchdog says

by Neil Roland (Automotive News)  Gasoline with up to 15 percent ethanol probably won't be sold at the pump for at least another year because of health, safety, cost and environmental concerns, a government watchdog said. ...The report makes clear that

July 13, 2011 Read Full Article

Va. Shifting to Alternative Fuel Vehicles

by Steve Szkotak  (Forbes)   Virginia is moving forward to power its fleet of 10,000 vehicles with alternative fuels, ranging from biodiesel to propane to exotic mixes intended to ease the state's reliance on foreign oil. ...Surrounded by a fleet of

July 13, 2011 Read Full Article

Klobuchar Calls Out Oil Companies to Give Up Subsidies

by Larry Bivins  (SCTimes)  Sen. Amy Klobuchar urged oil companies Tuesday to follow the lead of the ethanol industry and give up government subsidies to help defray the nation’s burgeoning deficit. In a speech on the Senate floor, Klobuchar

July 13, 2011 Read Full Article

Exclusive: Climate Impact Threatens Biodiesel Future in EU

by Charlie Dunmore  (Reuters)  Europe's biodiesel industry could be wiped out by EU plans to tackle the unwanted side effects of biofuel production, after studies showed few climate benefits, four papers obtained by Reuters show. Europe's world-leading $13 billion biodiesel industry,

July 13, 2011 Read Full Article

EPA Defers Application of CO2 Emissions Rules to Biomass

(Troutman Sanders)  The EPA on July 1, 2011 issued a final rule deferring for three years application of the Clean Air Act’s Prevention of Significant Deterioration (“PSD”) and Title V permitting requirements to carbon dioxide (“CO2”) emissions from biogenic stationary

July 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Australia’s Carbon Tax Debuts: Carbon Sunday, or Black Sunday?

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Aussie government debuts carbon tax scheme and $10Bn cleantech fund; who’s happy, who’s howling? In Australia, the federal government launched plans for a $23 per tonne tax on carbon, which will affect the country’s 500 largest

July 12, 2011 Read Full Article

House Rejects Republican Study Committee Cuts to Energy Subsidies

by Pete Kasperowicz (The Hill)  The House on Monday night rejected an amendment proposed by the Republican Study Committee that would have cut $3.25 billion from the Energy and Water Appropriations Act, effectively gutting the Department of Energy's alternative energy funding

July 12, 2011 Read Full Article

A Good Compromise on Ethanol Policy

by Brooke Coleman (Advanced Ethanol Council/The Washington Post)  Letter to Editor:  ...The compromise that Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), John Thune (R-S.D.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) have announced is not perfect. But it rightly involves using innovations in U.S. ethanol policy

July 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol – The Champagne of Fuels?

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Drop-in fuels all the rage? Not smart, says Coskata CSO Rathin Datta, ethanol is the champion for biomass-based fuels. In Washington DC later this month, at the DOE’s Biomass 2011 annual conclave, Rick Wilson, the CEO of

July 12, 2011 Read Full Article

The Reality We Are Living in Now: Biofuels and the New DC, Part II

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...In a swirling stew of change regarding US federal incentives, tariffs, tax credits and loan guarantees, the most consistent mechanism driving the expansion of renewable transport fuel has been the US Renewable Fuel Standard. Though

July 11, 2011 Read Full Article

DARPA Wants Artificial Lifeforms

by Katherine Bourzac (Technology Review)  The agency will fund projects aimed at speeding up synthetic biology, and creating new kinds of materials. Yesterday (June 15, 2011) morning, at the Fifth International Meeting on Synthetic Biology at Stanford University, a representative from

July 08, 2011 Read Full Article

America’s Ethanol Industry Is Leading the Way, RFA Writes to President Obama

(Renewable Fuel Association)  The Renewable Fuels Association todaysent a letter to President Obama detailing the dynamic state of America’s ethanol industry. The letter was prompted by remarks President Obama made during his Twitter town hall event earlier this week, in

July 08, 2011 Read Full Article

Hinchey, Bartlett, Kingston and Office of Rep. Giffords Announce Formation of Defense Energy Security Caucus

Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), Congressman Jack Kingston (R-GA) and the Office of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) today announced the formation of the Defense Energy Security Caucus (DESC). The Caucus aims to educate members of Congress and

July 08, 2011 Read Full Article

Energy Concerns Could Make Panetta First Green DOD Chief

by Annie Snider  (New York Times/Greenwire)  When Leon Panetta was sworn in this morning as the 23rd secretary of Defense, he inherited a force that is more fuel-dependent than ever -- a fact that those inside the Pentagon increasingly say

July 08, 2011 Read Full Article

Witnesses Blast EPA Decision to Allow Higher Ethanol Blends

(US House Committee on Science, Space and Technology)  Today the Energy & Environment Subcommittee held a hearing to examine the science behind the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to grant a waiver permitting the use of mid-level ethanol blends of up

July 08, 2011 Read Full Article

Remarks by President Obama in Twitter Town Hall

(CBS3Springfield.com/The White House)   ...Q Our next response from southwest Ohio, Mostlymoderate: "Cut subsidies to industries which are no longer in crisis or are unsuccessful, cotton, oil, corn subsidies from ethanol." THE PRESIDENT: Well, there's been a interesting debate taking place

July 06, 2011 Read Full Article

Momentum Gathering towards Aviation Biofuels Commercialisation as US and European Policy-Makers Signal Support

(GreenAirOnline)  The momentum driving the introduction of aviation biofuels received a significant boost with a number of initiatives and events taking place at last week’s Paris Air Show. While the transatlantic biofuel flights conducted by Boeing and Honeywell attracted wide

July 05, 2011 Read Full Article
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