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Advanced Biofuel Producers Applaud EPA’s Final Rule, Continue Push for RFS Reform

(Advanced Biofuels Association)  In response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) release of final renewable volume obligations for 2014 through 2016 under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the Advanced Biofuels Association (ABFA) has issued the following statement attributable to Michael

November 30, 2015 Read Full Article

Rubio Commits to Supporting RFS through 2022

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Iowa, Sen. Marco Rubio speaking about the Renewable Fuel Standard in Council Bluffs Iowa, said “Whether you like it or not, it isn’t fair to yank away something in the middle of it, after

November 30, 2015 Read Full Article

Obama Set to Issue Ethanol Fuel Mandate

by Devin Henry (The Hill)  ... Pro-ethanol forces say concern over the “blend wall” is overblown and that cars manufactured today are certified to run on higher-blend fuels. In their ads — in Washington and around the country — they say

November 27, 2015 Read Full Article

Banks: Ethanol Is a Bad Deal for Vt.

by David Banks ( American Council for Capital Formation/Times Argus)  Not a single gallon of fuel ethanol is produced in Vermont, and almost none of the corn harvested in the state is used for commercial purposes, according to USDA data. ... The

November 23, 2015 Read Full Article

What Facts Are Really Facts?

by Matt Reese (Ohio's Country Journal)  ...  The heated debate over the RFS really ramped up in recent weeks with dueling ad campaigns in Ohio and Washington, D.C. highlighting very different sets of facts pertaining to ethanol’s impact on the

November 17, 2015 Read Full Article

Federal Ethanol Mandate Imposes $42 Billion Fuel Tax on California

(Center for Regulatory Solutions)  San Francisco billionaire Tom Steyer and other national political figures have sold out California’s economy by supporting the federal government’s corn ethanol mandate. The mandate has already imposed $13.1 billion in higher fuel costs on Golden

November 17, 2015 Read Full Article

The Truth about Ethanol

by John Sedbrook (The Hill)  The American Enterprise Institute’s Mark Perry wrote in these pages, in no uncertain terms, that the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and fuel ethanol is a “failure.” While one may wonder what motivations lie behind such a

November 16, 2015 Read Full Article

Should the U.S. End the Ethanol Mandate?

by Margo Oge & Robert Bryce (The Wall Street Journal/Governors' Biofuel Coalition)  ...  Robert Bryce, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, says the ethanol mandate is bad for consumers and the environment. Margo T. Oge, a former

November 16, 2015 Read Full Article

Is Obama Doing Inhofe's Dirty Work on Biofuels?

by Paul Alexander (Huffington Post)  ... "That's the biggest risk we face -- not acting," Obama said. "Today, we're continuing to lead by example. Because ultimately, if we're going to prevent large parts of this earth from becoming not only inhospitable but

November 12, 2015 Read Full Article

Anti-Ethanol Group Expands National Ad Buy

by Devin Henry (The Hill)  A group opposing the federal ethanol mandate has extended its advertising campaign against the rule into several corn-growing states.  The American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF), a D.C.-based free market group, is hitting the airwaves

November 11, 2015 Read Full Article

RFA Sees Positives And Negatives From CBO Report

(WNAX)  A Congressional Budget Office report released this summer and shared at a Congressional Committee hearing last week looked at what might happen if the RFS were repealed. Renewable Fuel Association Senior Vice President Geoff Cooper says the report debunks

November 09, 2015 Read Full Article

House Science Committee Hearing Exposes Fundamental Flaws in RFS Opponents Attacks

(Renewable Fuels Association)  Today (November 3, 2015), the House Science, Space and Technology committee held a joint hearing of the subcommittees on Environment and Oversight titled “Renewable Fuel Standard: A Ten Year Review of Costs and Benefits.” Renewable Fuels Association

November 04, 2015 Read Full Article

Better Biofuels Ahead: The Road to Low-Carbon Fuels

by Emily Cassidy (Environmental Working Group)  Biofuels produced from switchgrass and post-harvest corn waste could significantly reduce the emissions that contribute to climate change, according to an analysis by EWG and University of California biofuels experts. EWG’s analysis found that the life

November 03, 2015 Read Full Article

Biofuel Groups Debate Fate of Renewable Fuel Standard

by Anna Simet (Biomass Magazine)  Agreeing to respectfully disagree was one of very few assenting points reached by association heads representing the biodiesel, ethanol and advanced biofuel groups during a candid debate about the renewable fuel standard (RFS), policy amendments

October 30, 2015 Read Full Article

Are White House Insiders With Connections to Big Oil Undermining the President's Climate Change Agenda?

by Paul Alexander (Huffington Post)  ... (H)e must explain his decision to gut the Renewable Fuel Standard and hand Big Oil a decisive political victory. One lingering question is, did high-level White House staffers with close ties to oil companies

October 29, 2015 Read Full Article

Oil Lobby Launches New Campaign against Ethanol Mandate

by Devin Henry (The Hill)  The American Petroleum Institute (API) will run a “multifaceted advocacy campaign” against the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) for the next month ahead of a deadline for the Obama administration to finalize three years of standards

October 29, 2015 Read Full Article

President Obama Is Turning His Back on the Renewable Fuel Standard

by former Senator Jim Talent (The Gazette)  I’m old enough to remember when energy first became a national security issue during the original energy crisis in the early 1970s. That was the first time America realized that we were dependent

October 27, 2015 Read Full Article

ACE Members Pressure EPA, White House; Promote Octane Benefits of Ethanol

by Brian Jennings (Ethanol Producer Magazine/A,merican Coalition for Ethanol)  ACE members will keep working to help the EPA get the RFS on track will also continuing to work on other strategies to increase ethanol use, writes Brian Jennings.  --  ...

October 27, 2015 Read Full Article

Obama’s Carbon Emission Hypocrisy

by former Sen. Jim Talent (R-Mo.) (The Hill)  On November 30, President Obama will join leaders from 196 nations in Paris for the COP 21 United Nations Conference on Climate Change. Ironically, that same day, his Environmental Protection Agency could

October 26, 2015 Read Full Article

EPA's RFS Proposal Risks Ending America's Rural Renaissance

by Jonathan H Harsch (Agri-Pulse) When President George W. Bush signed the law creating the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in 2005 to support biofuels production, he explained that “Using ethanol and biodiesel will leave our air cleaner. And every time we use

October 23, 2015 Read Full Article

EPA OIG Plans to Look at RFS Lifecycle Impacts Should Be Good for Biofuels

(25 x '25)  The announcement by EPA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) that it will begin preliminary research on lifecycle impacts of the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) should be good news for the biofuels industry, providing the agency’s investigators

October 23, 2015 Read Full Article

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

Slice through Political Chatter this Election Season

by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association)   It is imperative for the biofuels industry to pay attention to what presidential candidates are saying about the nation’s energy policy and the RFS, writes Bob Dinneen. ... In the age of the 24-hour news cycle

October 22, 2015 Read Full Article

BIOFUELS: DuPont's Koninckx Says RFS Uncertainty Driving Investments Abroad

by Monica Trauzzi (E&E TV)  As the renewable fuel standard faces continued regulatory and legislative uncertainty, DuPont Biofuels is set to open the world's largest cellulosic ethanol biorefinery in Iowa at the end of the month. How will the uncertainty impact

October 22, 2015 Read Full Article

U.S. Refiners Oppose Linking Subsidies to Repeal of Oil Export Ban

by Timothy Gardner (Reuters)  The top U.S. oil refiner industry group told Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday it opposes any subsidies for renewable energy or other interests that would be potentially included in a package to lift the

October 21, 2015 Read Full Article

Lack of Strong RFS Policy Could Put Michigan Jobs at Risk

(Farmers Advance)  Jeff Sandborn, a Portland farmer and member of the board of the National Corn Growers Association, highlighted a new nationwide study demonstrating the economic impact of ethanol production, noting that ethanol is tied to more than 22,000 Michigan

October 21, 2015 Read Full Article

Letter: Biodiesel Targets Should Be Tougher

by Parks Wells (Tennessee Soybean Promotion Council/KNOX News)  ... The environmental benefits of biodiesel have been repeatedly proven by impartial experts. Just last month, after seven years of peer-reviewed research, the state of California determined that biodiesel reduces greenhouse gas emissions by

October 21, 2015 Read Full Article

Hope for an End to the Ethanol Debacle?

by Norm Schultz (Trade Only Today)  ... Biobutanol is real. Scientists at DuPont have been developing it for more than a decade. Held up since 2011 by a barrage of now-settled patent disputes, this new fuel could replace ethanol and bring

October 21, 2015 Read Full Article

DuPont Employees Write Letter to Tommey, Defend RFS

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  Forty DuPont employees signed a letter sent recently to Sen. Pat Tommey, R-Penn., making it clear they oppose his efforts to modify the renewable fuel standard (RFS) in any way.  Tommey was unsuccessful at

October 19, 2015 Read Full Article

RFA Statement on Big Oil Anti-RFS Campaign

(Renewable Fuels Association)  The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) released the following statement regarding an ad campaign that is being launched by Smarter Fuel Future to call on Congress and the administration to repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). “The oil industry

October 19, 2015 Read Full Article

Watchdog to Study Ethanol’s Environmental Impact

by Timothy Cama (The Hill)  The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) internal watchdog is launching a project to analyze the environmental impact of the federal ethanol mandate.  The EPA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) sent a letter to agency officials Thursday

October 17, 2015 Read Full Article

Trust Iowa farmers, Not Big Oil

by T.J. Page (Des Moines Register/Iowa Renewable Fuels Association) Letter to the Editor-- It’s disappointing, but not surprising to read a recent letter from a non-Iowan repeating discredited Environmental Working Group statistics to bash corn farmers and ethanol production [“Ethanol plays role

October 05, 2015 Read Full Article

Grassley on the Oil Export Ban, Attempt to Diminish Ethanol

(Office of Senator Chuck Grassley)  Note:  This week, the Senate Banking Committee voted to lift the ban on U.S. oil exports.  The committee defeated an amendment that would have eliminated the corn ethanol blending requirements under the federal Renewable Fuel

October 04, 2015 Read Full Article

Letters: Ethanol Good for Economy, Environment

by Warren Woodrow Carothers (The State)  In his Sept. 18 letter, “Renewable fuel standard doing more harm than good,” U.S. Rep. Tom Rice says ethanol emissions are 33 percent higher than with gasoline. He is using research data that is

October 02, 2015 Read Full Article

Toomey Amendment to Doom the US Renewable Fuel Standard Rejected in Senate Committee Vote

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Washington, an amendment offered by Senator Pat Toomey that would end a key provision of the RFS – the requirement to blend traditional ethanol-based renewable fuels into U.S. gasoline failed in the Senate Committee

October 02, 2015 Read Full Article

Orlando Museum, Tea Party and Biofuels: Letters -- Biofuels Good for Florida

by Mark Emalfarb  (Dyadic International)  ...  Mike Murtha's My Word column, "Feds must follow Fla. on ethanol repeal," on Monday is a misguided call to move the state backward in all three areas. Florida's universities and biotechnology companies — including the

October 02, 2015 Read Full Article

RFS a ‘Vital’ Tool for Addressing Climate Change — McCarthy

by Amanda Peterka (E&E/Governors' Biofuels Coalition)  U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy today said that the renewable fuel standard is a “vital” tool for addressing climate change and that her agency is committed to building up the domestic biofuels industry. But she cautioned

September 16, 2015 Read Full Article

Urban Air Iniative: Real Economic Harm Is to Keep Using Gasoline

(Urban Air Initiative/Ethanol Producer Magazine)  Officials from the Urban Air Initiative called the recent effort by the American Petroleum Institute to discredit ethanol a smokescreen to hide the fact that the toxic components in gasoline are endangering the lives of millions

September 14, 2015 Read Full Article

US Cannot Abandon Biofuels Global Leadership

by Bliss Baker (Ethanol Producer Magazine/Global Renewable Fuels Association)   ...   Since then it has helped the U.S. diversify its energy supply mix, eased dependence on foreign oil and boosted rural economies across the country. This success has been envied and emulated

September 11, 2015 Read Full Article

API Study Claims RFS Damage: Biofuel Producers Pan Oil Industry Study Attacking Ethanol

by Todd Neeley (DTN The Progressive Farmer)  ... Biofuels interest groups denounced the study as a rehash of a similar effort in 2012 that made predictions that were provably false. ... Biofuels interest groups countered that the NERA study is just a

September 10, 2015 Read Full Article

Study: US Ethanol Mandates Could Cause Severe Harm to Consumers, Economy

(American Petroleum Institute)  The statutory biofuel mandates under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) are infeasible to achieve in 2015 and beyond and could cause severe harm to consumers and the U.S. economy, according to a study by NERA Economic Consulting

September 09, 2015 Read Full Article

MSW and the Promise of Biotechnology

by James L. Stewart (MSW Management/Biofuels Digest)  When it comes to its progress in achieving zero waste to landfills, the United States is on a par with Slovenia and the Czech Republic.  --  On average, the top eight countries in Europe

August 25, 2015 Read Full Article

Repeal the Ethanol Mandate

by John McClaughry (Watchdog.org)    ... Back in the Nixon years scientists discovered that tetraethyl lead used to improve combustion in gasoline led to serious environmental and health damage. Adding lead to gasoline was banned. That was a good thing. But gasoline

August 20, 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

Critics Pound RFS in House Hearing-- Growth Energy Slams Decision to Exclude Ethanol Industry Groups From Hearing

by Tom Neeley (DTN/The Progressive Farmer)  Though odds are slim Congress will take up legislation to reform the Renewable Fuel Standard anytime soon, a combined hearing of the House subcommittees on energy and oversight Thursday kept that possibility alive by

July 28, 2015 Read Full Article

Scientist: The Ethanol Mandate Harms Air Quality, ‘Leads To Increased Mortality’

by Michael Bastasch (Daily Caller)  A University of Minnesota scientist told lawmakers Thursday that mandating ethanol be blended into fuel supplies is leading to more deaths from poor air quality in the Midwest and along the East Coast. “The Renewable Fuel

July 27, 2015 Read Full Article

Biofuels Industry, Farmers Advocate against Loudermilk Amendment

by Erin Voegele (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  On July 2, a group of two dozen biofuel trade groups and companies issued a letter to members of the U.S. House of Representatives urging them to reject an proposals that amend, repeal, defund

July 10, 2015 Read Full Article

Biofuel Leaders Urge Congress to Reject Legislative Changes to the RFS

(Renewable Energy World)  A consortium of biofuel companies sent a letter to members of Congress, urging them to reject proposals that would repeal or “reform” the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). The were particularly concerned with the amendment put forth by

July 07, 2015 Read Full Article

EDITORIAL: Congress Should Kill Ethanol Mandate

(Las Vegas Review-Journal)  ... Although auto manufacturers have longed warned against using gas containing more than 10 percent ethanol, the Environmental Protection Agency — along with misguided renewable-fuel advocates, the big agriculture lobby and their friends in elected office — pushed

July 06, 2015 Read Full Article

GOP Bill Would Repeal Federal Ethanol Mandate

By Timothy Cama (The Hill)  A new Republican bill introduced Tuesday (June 16, 2015) would completely repeal the federal mandate to blend ethanol into the nation’s gasoline supply. Sen. Bill Cassidy’s (R-La.) legislation would completely do away with the renewable fuel

July 01, 2015 Read Full Article

As EPA Hands Down New Rules on Renewable Fuel Standard, Critics Say 'Blend Wall' a Fiction Created by Big Oil

by Paul Alexander (Huffington Post)  ... For the first time since it was conceived a decade ago, the Obama Administration has proposed weakening the RFS -- a blow to the green movement, the biofuels business, and especially the ethanol industry. The reduced

July 01, 2015 Read Full Article

A Look at EPA’s RVO Proposal

by Michael McAdams (Biomass Magazine)  ... For the next-generation biofuels industry, this proposed rule represents a solid improvement, especially for those in the advanced and biomass-based diesel pool, as well as those in the cellulosic pool seeking a concrete signal of

June 30, 2015 Read Full Article

EPA Hearings on Renewable Fuel Standard: Statement by DuPont

(Biofuels Digest)  “DuPont believes the proposed 2014 to 2016 Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) rule is misguided and is a major step backward. Since the RFS was first enacted, the United States has quickly risen to lead the world in biofuels

June 26, 2015 Read Full Article

EPA Hearings on Renewable Fuel Standard: Testimony of Brian Jennings, EVP, American Coalition for Ethanol

(Biofuels Digest)  Thank you, my name is Brian Jennings, and I’m the Executive Vice President of the American Coalition for Ethanol. I’m pleased to report that more than 100 people representing ACE member companies will testify at today’s hearing, as

June 26, 2015 Read Full Article

Senator Amy Klobuchar: Keynote Address at the DOE Bioenergy 2015 Conference

by Senator Amy Kolbuchar (Biofuels Digest/Bioenergy 2015)  I want to spend a moment looking at the badness in our energy policy, with a look back in history. Our first bad moment was after 9/11, we were united and the President

June 25, 2015 Read Full Article

FREEDOMWORKS KEY-VOTES RFS AMENDMENT

(Politico Morning Energy/Bay Planning Coalition)  The House won’t take any votes on its Interior-EPA appropriations bill until next month, but a conservative group already is urging Republicans to back an amendment to defund the Renewable Fuel Standard. FreedomWorks sent the

June 25, 2015 Read Full Article

Up with Octane and Down with Aromatics: Continuing Health Risks with Petroleum Fuels and the Need for Engine Efficiency

by Bill Brandon (Leaders in Energy)  Our country has seen many transitions in travel technologies and fuels. In the first installment I reviewed our transition from 1) barley and oats for our horses and mules to high carbohydrate corn for

June 25, 2015 Read Full Article

Renewable Fuels a Potential Election-Year Issue for Iowa Voters

by Christopher Doering (Des Moines Register)  Renewable fuels could be an issue in the race for the White House as indecisive voters in Iowa look for a way to whittle down a crowded field of Republican candidates, trade groups and polling

June 19, 2015 Read Full Article

Farmers, Biofuel Industry Calls on Congress to Leave RFS Alone

by Erin Voegele (Biomass Magazine)  On June 17, Fuels America hosted a press call during which American farmers and representatives of the biofuel industry discussed how legislative changes to the renewable fuel standard (RFS) would threaten America’s security, consumers, climate

June 19, 2015 Read Full Article

EPA Renewable Fuel Standard Management Scrutinized at Hearing

by Anna Simet (Biomass Magazine)  U.S. EPA Acting Assistant Administrator Janet McCabe fielded dozens of hard questions and endured heavy scrutiny during a June 18 hearing held to discuss the agency’s management of the federal renewable fuel standard (RFS). Chairing the hearing

June 19, 2015 Read Full Article

Renew America’s Renewable Future Releases Coalition List

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Iowa, America’s Renewable Future (ARF) has publicly released a diverse coalition of partners that includes Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, Iowa Corn Growers, Growth Energy, and POET among many others. ARF released the following statement: “We

June 15, 2015 Read Full Article

Is EPA's Biofuel Policy Eroding the Industry?

by John Siciliano (The Examiner) The Environmental Protection Agency's attempts to get its flagship renewable fuel program back on track is coming at a price for the biofuel industry it has sought to support. In the nearly two years that the EPA

May 11, 2015 Read Full Article

Joule, Audi Confirm Revolutionary Sunflow Fuel Meets US, EU Specs

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Massachusetts, news arrives from Joule that the company’s CO2-recycled  ethanol meets US and European fuel specifications. No one is dying of surprise that they would do so, but  getting Joule fuels registered for commercial

May 11, 2015 Read Full Article

Strengthening The RFS For Next-Gen Biofuels

by Michael McAdams (Advanced Biofuels Association/Biomass Magazine)  There has been a great deal of conversation around the speech I recently gave at the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. I would like to further explain some of the key

May 05, 2015 Read Full Article

Scott Walker's Stance on Ethanol Prompts Concerns

by Jason Stein  (Journal Sentinel)  As likely presidential candidate Scott Walker has shifted his position on a federal ethanol mandate, some of the fuel's skeptics at home in Wisconsin are wary. At an Iowa roundup for White House hopefuls in March, the

May 05, 2015 Read Full Article

It’s Time for EPA to Get the RFS Back on Track

by Brent Erickson (Biotechnology Industry Organization/Biofuels Digest)  ... A new white paper by Harvard economist James Stock – a former member of the Obama administration’s Council of Economic Advisors – acknowledges as much. Unfortunately, the paper’s faulty analysis of the RFS

May 04, 2015 Read Full Article

Bill Aims to Alter RVO Process, Definition for Cellulosic Biofuel

by Erin Voegele (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  Sen. Jeff Flake, R, Ariz., has introduced legislation that aims to amend the renewable fuel standard (RFS) to require the cellulosic requirement to be based on actual production and alter the statutory definition of

April 24, 2015 Read Full Article

American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) Ups Biofuels Presence at Policy Forum

by Joanne Ivancic* (Advanced Biofuels USA)  Over the past year, the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) increased its work with the biofuels sector of renewable energy, upped its presence and activity at biofuels-related conferences and events, and got into

April 24, 2015 Read Full Article

As EPA Finalizes Rule, Klobuchar, Grassley, Durbin, Thune, Franken, and Kirk Lead Bipartisan Group of 37 Senators in Calling for a Strong Renewable Fuel Standard

(Office of Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA)) The Environmental Protection Agency is working to finalize the proposed rule on biofuels volume requirements under the Renewable Fuel Standard; the latest proposal would create uncertainty for biodiesel producers and undermine job creation.   In a

April 24, 2015 Read Full Article

"Repeal the RFS – All of It," Koch Companies Writes to Senators

by Philip Ellender (Koch Companies Public Sector)  On behalf of Koch companies, I am writing to urge you to oppose S. 577, a bill introduced by Senators Feinstein and Toomey that seeks to reform, not repeal, the federal Renewable Fuel Standard(RFS)

April 17, 2015 Read Full Article

The Renewable Fuel Standard: A Path Forward

by James H. Stock* (Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy)  America’s renewable fuels policy is at a crossroads. The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) is derided by some as an inefficient program that is driving up costs for fuel suppliers and

April 17, 2015 Read Full Article

Nebraska Corn Representatives Tell Ethanol’s Story on Capitol Hill

(NebraskaCorn.org)  Ethanol advocates from across the nation came together in Washington, DC in late March as part of a “Biofuels Beltway March” to share their ethanol stories and communicate the widespread grassroots support for American Ethanol and the Renewable Fuel

April 13, 2015 Read Full Article

EPA to Finalize 2014, 2015 and 2016 RFS Rules by November

by Erin Voegele (Biomass Magazine)  The U.S. EPA has posted a notice to its website announcing that the volume requirements for the 2014, 2015 and 2016 renewable fuel standard (RFS), along with the 2017 volume requirement for biomass-based diesel, will

April 10, 2015 Read Full Article

Answers for Your Questions about Biofuels, Renewable Chemicals, Bioproducts and Sustainable Agriculture.

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Amazing questions get asked at ABLC — and except for attendees, you generally don’t hear them, or the answers. Let’s change that.  With great sessions at conferences, delegates are usually keen to get a hold of

April 09, 2015 Read Full Article

Study Shows: Big Oil Is Chicken Little over Ethanol

by Ryan Koopmans (Des Moines Register) ... For the last decade, Big Oil has been running nervously through the halls of the U.S. Capitol and the EPA, screaming — to anyone who will listen — that the Renewable Fuel Standard is

April 06, 2015 Read Full Article

End the Ethanol Mandate: Our View

(USA Today) ... Apart from Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, they all supported the mandate, including Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, the latest conservative darling, who arrived at his pro-ethanol position thanks to a 180 degree reverse back flip that would

March 31, 2015 Read Full Article

Group of Lawmakers Continues to Seek Ways to Block Biofuels, Through Any Means Possible

(Energy and Environmental Study Institute)  On March 23, a letter signed by 18 members of Congress to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture asked the subcommittee to include “language to limit continued government support for corn ethanol,” primarily by limiting

March 30, 2015 Read Full Article

Our Federal Policy on the Use of Ethanol

(New York Times)  To the Editor:  Re “End the Ethanol Rip-Off,” by Robert Bryce (Op-Ed, March 10):  The notion that the Renewable Fuel Standard is somehow a hidden tax is a strange assessment for a policy that is reducing costs

March 30, 2015 Read Full Article

Ethanol Debate Could Come to a Head in Washington This Year

by Christopher Doering (Des Moines Register)  The ethanol and oil industries have dug in for what could be a pivotal year for the future of the renewable fuel mandate in Washington, with the victor poised to add jobs and reap millions

March 27, 2015 Read Full Article

Senator Cruz's Legislation Promotes Big Oil, Denies Consumer Choice

(Growth Energy)  In response to S. 791, the American Energy Renaissance Act, legislation that was introduced last week by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), which would seek to further our addiction to fossil fuels and eliminate consumer choice by repealing the

March 27, 2015 Read Full Article

Another Successful ACE Fly-in

by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com)  The seventh annual American Coalition for Ethanol Fly-in, which included an appearance by Sen. John Thune (R-SD), was another success for the organization, according to Executive Vice President Brian Jennings. “We do this because we know lawmakers and

March 27, 2015 Read Full Article

House Members Seek to End Ethanol Mandate

(TruckingInfo) A bi-partisan group of members of the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced legislation that would end the ethanol mandate, following a similar measure introduced in the U.S. Senate in late February. Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) announced the bill while visiting

March 26, 2015 Read Full Article

The Iowa Caucuses Have a Winner: Ethanol

by Thomas Pyle (The Wall Street Journal) Presidential hopefuls love the law mandating biofuel use, but there are encouraging signs in Washington that the business handout is losing favor. ... At the Iowa Agriculture Summit earlier this month, most of the prospective Republican

March 26, 2015 Read Full Article

Advanced Biofuels Community Leaders Meet: Persistent and Dogged in the Throes of a Tough Slog

by Joanne Ivancic* (Advanced Biofuels USA)  Every year, the annual Washington, DC gathering of leaders in the advanced biofuels world at the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference sports a different "vibe." In the early days of the late 2000's, the atmosphere

March 16, 2015 Read Full Article

How Obama's EPA Is Making Life Difficult for Clinton

by Jerry Hagstrom (National Journal) The biggest takeaways from the GOP-dominated Iowa Ag Summit here this weekend may be the opportunity that the Renewable Fuel Standard offers Hillary Clinton to address income inequality and the danger that the Obama administration's dithering

March 13, 2015 Read Full Article

RFS Roundup: Advanced Cellulosic Industry Group Breaks with Industry on RFS

(Environmental and Energy Study Institute)  On March 11, at the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference in Washington D.C., Advanced Biofuels Association President Michael McAdams broke with the “Don’t Mess with the RFS” mantra that has been the collective industry response to

March 13, 2015 Read Full Article

GOP Presidential Hopefuls Split over Federal Biofuels Mandate

by Seth McLaughlin (The Washington Times)  Free market conservatism collided with farm-state jockeying this weekend in Iowa, where several GOP presidential hopefuls said they support the federal fuel mandate that has boosted Iowa’s all-important corn market — arguably at the expense

March 09, 2015 Read Full Article

Iowa Agriculture Summit Splits GOP 2016 Field on Subsidies, Immigration

by Philip Rucker and Dan Balz (The Washington Post)  A day-long forum on agriculture here, where likely Republican presidential candidates courted Iowa’s farming industry, revealed sharp policy differences among the contenders, from immigration to energy subsidies. The nine White House aspirants

March 09, 2015 Read Full Article

The Food Waste Debacle

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Last week there was  a Fast Food industry fly-in to DC — arguing for a repeal of the Renewable Fuel Standard on the grounds of food price impact. ...  It just happens that major report on

March 02, 2015 Read Full Article

USDA Increases Ethanol Support

by Daniel Looker (Agriculture.com)  Speaking to the ethanol lobbying group, Growth Energy, Agriculture Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack Thursday announced more USDA support for bioenergy research and farmer production of biomass but also praised efforts by the biofuel industry itself

March 01, 2015 Read Full Article

The Renewable Fuels Standard Is Antiquated, But Don't Abandon It

by Loren Steffy (Forbes) It’s time to start building a smarter energy policy. It’s decades past time, actually, ... The Renewable Fuels Standard is a good place to start. ...  The RFS was also touted an important step in reducing greenhouse gasses

March 01, 2015 Read Full Article

Biofuel Industry Criticizes Toomey, Feinstein RFS Bill

by Erin Voegele (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  On Feb. 26, Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., introduced the Corn Ethanol Mandate Elimination Act of 2015. The bill, which is cosponsored by Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., aims to alter the

February 27, 2015 Read Full Article

Ethanol Groups Not Pleased with Rekindled RFS Reform Act

(Farm Futures) Bill to eliminate corn-based ethanol requirement of the Renewable Fuel Standard doesn't receive warm welcome from ethanol and ag groups.  Calling it a "huge step backward" for energy independence, the National Corn Growers on Wednesday (February 4) made it

February 27, 2015 Read Full Article

Toomey, Feinstein Introduce Bill to Repeal Ethanol Mandate

(Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA))  U.S. Senators Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) are working to repeal a law that drives up the cost of everything from gasoline to groceries. The Toomey-Feinstein Corn Ethanol Mandate Elimination Act of 2015, introduced today,

February 27, 2015 Read Full Article

The Big Move: The Leap from First-Gen to Next-Gen Biofuels Companies, How Does It Happen?

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  How does the biofuels industry move from its roots in first-gen corn starch or cane sugar fermentation towards diversified products, more capacity and distribution, and new inputs like cellulosics? How are the economics now — and

February 09, 2015 Read Full Article

Will Low Oil Prices Be the Downfall of Cellulosic Biofuels?

by Wally Tyner (The Conversation/Purdue University)  ... One challenge to commercializing biofuel made from non-food sources — called cellulosic biofuels — has been cost. Unlike ethanol made from corn, cellulosic biofuels are made from the inedible parts of plants or organic materials,

February 08, 2015 Read Full Article

House Bills Aim to Alter, Eliminate the RFS

by Erin Voegele (Biomass Magazine)  On Feb. 4, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., announced the introduction of two bills that aim to alter the renewable fuel standard (RFS), including the RFS Elimination Act and the RFS Reform Act. Reps. Peter Welch,

February 06, 2015 Read Full Article

Will New Congress Take on Ethanol?

by Rob Nikolewski (Watchdog.org)  It’s possibly the most controversial mandate on the books — a  requirement under the Renewable Fuel Standard that billions of gallons of ethanol be mixed into the gasoline American consumers put into their tanks. But there’s a new Congress

January 09, 2015 Read Full Article

The 4 Smarter Things Congress Could Be Doing than Voting on Keystone Again

by Chris Mooney (The Washington Post)  ...  For environmentalists, it symbolizes the increasingly urgent need to keep fossil fuels in the ground. For Republicans, it symbolizes everything they hate about how environmentalists seek to block industrial projects. But when Congress focuses

January 08, 2015 Read Full Article

Hope vs Change

by Michael McAdams (Biomass Magazine)  ... Sen. McConnell has promised a return to regular order.  That means lots of votes on lots of potentially contentious issues.  It will be interesting to see if he follows through on that pledge given

January 05, 2015 Read Full Article

10 Biggest Bioeconomy Blockbuster Stories of 2014 (Americas)

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  POET-DSM, Abengoa, Enerkem, GranBio, Raizen plant openings lead the list; REG’s M&A campaign, EPA’s RFS debacle, are other key trends. They said that cellulosic fuels were “five years away, and always will be,” but five major

December 23, 2014 Read Full Article

Ethanol Report on RFS Anniversary

by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com)  December 19, marks the seventh anniversary of the signing into law of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 which expanded the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). In this Ethanol Report, Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) president and

December 22, 2014 Read Full Article

Bipartisan Policy Center and It’s “Fix the RFS” Recipe, or Lack thereof

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  After a year-long talk fest, the BPC emerges with a report on RFS reform, and lays an egg.  Was the process doomed from the start by an insistence of “RFS reform” as a topic for

December 19, 2014 Read Full Article

Think Tank Proposes 40 Options to Change Ethanol Mandate

by Timothy Cama  (The Hill)  The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) published a report outlining 40 different options that it said could improve the country’s ethanol mandate. The BPC said it set out to find a “middle ground” for reforming the Renewable

December 17, 2014 Read Full Article

Lawmakers Frustrated at EPA over Ethanol Mandate Delay

by Timothy Cama (The Hill)  Lawmakers vented their frustration at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Wednesday over its repeated delays of the annual ethanol mandate.  The Wednesday hearing in the House Oversight Committee’s subpanel on energy came weeks after the

December 12, 2014 Read Full Article

Algae Biomass Organization Calls for Robust Renewable Fuel Standard

(Algae Biomass Organization) The Algae Biomass Organization (ABO) submitted comments to the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Energy yesterday calling on Congress to ensure that the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) includes timely approval for advanced biofuel pathways as

December 11, 2014 Read Full Article

Not Broken, Don’t Fix It: Why Congress Should Refrain from RFS Reform

by James C. Greenwood (The Hill/Biotechnology Industry Organization)  The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) failure to issue a final 2014 rule for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and other missteps are being misinterpreted or misconstrued as a sign that the program is

December 10, 2014 Read Full Article

Congress Should Not Fix What Isn’t Broken

by Brent Erickson (Biotechnology Industry Organization)  The underlying legal constructs of the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) remain in working order, despite the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) failure to issue a final 2014 rule and its other regulatory missteps. Over the

December 09, 2014 Read Full Article

Ethanol Production and Profits Are Through The Roof

by Emily Cassidy (Environmental Working Group)  Corn ethanol production has soared to record heights this year, and with large harvests and low corn prices, that means record profits for the industry. ... ... Production has soared in large part because of

December 07, 2014 Read Full Article

EPA Puts RFS In Jeopardy

by Jacqui Fatka (Farm Futures)  Actions taken by EPA to help keep RFS alive have actually backfired and brought more attacks in defending Congress’ intent. ... Wally Tyner, Purdue University ag economist, said it’s quite ironic that EPA likely proposed lower corn-based

December 02, 2014 Read Full Article

14 for ’15: The Bioeconomy Agenda, 2015

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  14 perspectives on policy, technologies and geographies of compelling interest in the new year --  At ABLC Next this year in San Francisco — naturally, the focus is on “what’s next” in technology, finance, deployment

December 01, 2014 Read Full Article

Impasse over RFS Underscores Need for Biofuel Value Chain and Partner Unity

(25 x '25)  Federal regulators have stumbled again in following the congressionally approved roadmap for expanding and accelerating biofuel development and use, announcing Friday they will not finalize 2014 blending requirements under the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) until sometime next

November 26, 2014 Read Full Article

Ethanol Proponents Anticipating a Fight

by Nicholas Bergin (Lincoln Journal Star)  The biofuels industry is gearing up for a fight, a national industry spokesman said Monday.   Doug Durante, executive director of Bethesda, Maryland-based Clean Fuels Development Coalition, predicted lawsuits over the Environmental Protection Agency’s

November 25, 2014 Read Full Article

Shell: Expects to Be Producing Advanced Biofuels at Scale, in US, by End of Decade

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Shell VP Matthew Tipper, at ABLCNext:  “We will likely begin manufacture in the southeast United States. We plan to be operational by late this decade.  “We believe our best bet is woody biomass and energy

November 21, 2014 Read Full Article

Fuel Standard Good for US Economy

by Tim Walz (D-Minn.) (AgWeek)  Imagine a future where America controls its own energy destiny — a future in which we stop spending $1 billion per day on foreign oil and start investing those funds to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure

November 18, 2014 Read Full Article

Advanced Biofuels’ Beltway Crusader

by Tim Portz (Biomass Magazine)  Mike McAdams discusses work on Capitol Hill, founding of the Advanced Biofuels Association and the importance of engaging in the ongoing public debate about renewable fuels. “We’re the people you hire to protect you from the

November 13, 2014 Read Full Article

AG Allies Ask President to Rein in EAP on Biofuels Cuts

(National Corn Growers Association)  In a letter sent to President Obama this week, the National Corn Growers Association and several agricultural allies asked him to intervene with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regarding its proposed cuts in the 2014 volume

November 13, 2014 Read Full Article

Bioeconomy Policy for 2015: US Elections, What Happened, What Now?

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  To open ABLC Next, what we like to call the “heads of the 7 families” — or in this case, the heads of seven key trade associations for the advanced bioeconomy, joined us on stage

November 11, 2014 Read Full Article

Possible Actions on Renewable Energy & Fuels in the 114th Congress

(Environmental and Energy Study Institute)  ... In early 2014, (Senator James M.) Inhofe (R-OK) expressed interest in repealing the RFS, and instead focus on expansion of domestic oil and gas drilling.  Inhofe wrote that the RFS should be repealed, “allow[ing] ethanol

November 08, 2014 Read Full Article

Toxic Chemicals in Gasoline Are Killing Americans

by Larry Pearce (The Hill)  In 1990, Congress passed the Clean Air Act Amendments and directed the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce the dangerous chemical additives in gasoline. Today, 24 years later, this law has yet to be enforced

November 05, 2014 Read Full Article

History of U.S. Biofuel Mandate Provides Opening for Legal Challenge

by  Ayesha Rascoe (Reuters)  Probable legal challenges to proposed cuts in the 2014 U.S. biofuel mandate could focus on a two-word phrase dropped from the U.S. law establishing the renewable fuel program back in 2005: distribution capacity. Biofuel producers have argued

November 05, 2014 Read Full Article

Conservative Swing! Udall, Hagan Fall as US Republicans Take Control of the US Senate

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ... The most prominent casualties of the night, in terms of the Advanced Bioeconomy, were Democrats Mark Udall of Colorado and Kay Hagen of North Carolina, whose crucial support in 2012 saved the Navy’s biofuels

November 05, 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

The Renewable Fuel Standard: 2014 and Beyond

(U.S. Congressional Budget Office)  Presentation by Terry Dinan, Senior Advisor in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies Division. With Ron Gecan and David Austin, both of CBO, posted.  READ MORE

October 23, 2014 Read Full Article

CREW Sues EPA for Documents Regarding 2014 Renewable Fuel Standards

(Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) today sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to provide documents regarding oil industry efforts to influence the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). Last May, following

October 23, 2014 Read Full Article

New Report Sheds Light on the Old "Food Vs. Fuel" Bioenergy Debate

by Jennifer Runyon (RenewableEnergyWorld.com) There was never any conflict between using corn for food or for ethanol since corn growers send most of their product to animal feedlots. That product isn’t even meant for human consumption anyway. It was an abundant year

October 14, 2014 Read Full Article

Governors urging Obama Administration on RFS: Protect Consumer Choice, Jobs, and Reduce Dependence on Foreign Oil

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Illinois Governor Pat Quinn and Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, chairman and vice chairman of the Governors’ Biofuels Coalition, sent a letter urging the Obama Administration to ensure the development of domestically produced renewable fuels by amending

October 02, 2014 Read Full Article

EPA Should Uphold Law on Ethanol

by Bartholomew L. Mcleay (Kansas City Star) ... Congress led rural America to believe strict volume purchase requirements in RFS for corn ethanol, for example, would keep them safe. The law is clear. RFS is not to be reduced through 2022

October 01, 2014 Read Full Article

Fuel Standard Good for US’s Economic Engine

by Rep. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) (The Hill)  Imagine a future where America controls its own energy destiny — a future in which we stop spending $1 billion per day on foreign oil and start investing those funds to rebuild our

October 01, 2014 Read Full Article

Iowa Renewable Fuels Advocates Demand Answers from Biden

by Jennifer Jacobs (Des Moines Register) Renewable fuels advocates want Vice President Joe Biden to tell them if it's true that he pushed to reverse the Obama administration's support for a mandate they believe aids Iowa's economy. The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

September 18, 2014 Read Full Article

Renewable Fuels Standard Spurred Ethanol Breakthroughs

by Delayne Johnson (Des Moines Register/Quad County Corn Processors)   This month, our company, Quad County Corn Processors, will debut an innovative new technology that promises to make one of Iowa's signature agricultural products — corn — go even further. Over a

September 16, 2014 Read Full Article

VIII Annual ISO DATAGRO New York Sugar and Ethanol Conference: Report

by Pamela Rockwell* (Advanced Biofuels USA)  It was fitting that the VIII annual ISO DATAGRO New York Sugar and Ethanol Conference took place in the Empire Room of the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. The event is sponsored jointly by

September 08, 2014 Read Full Article

Ernst Pushes Iowa TV Stations to Pull Renewable Fuels ad, Calling It Deliberately Misleading

by Donnelle Eller (Des Moines Register)  Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst defended her support for the renewable fuels standard today and pushed six Iowa TV stations to pull an ad that her campaign claims deliberately distorts her position on

August 11, 2014 Read Full Article

Reaching out in D.C.

by Gene Lucht (Iowa Farmer Today)   .... But, when the Iowans visited Washington recently a few of them also spoke with members of Congress and congressional staffers from non-ag regions in an effort to educate them about agriculture and about

August 08, 2014 Read Full Article

Regulations Needed to Identify Potentially Invasive Biofuel Crops

(University of Illinois  College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences/EurekAlert!)  If the hottest new plant grown as a biofuel crop is approved based solely on its greenhouse gas emission profile, its potential as the next invasive species may not be

August 08, 2014 Read Full Article

Ethanol Explosive for Cruz, Paul

by  Alexander Bolton (The Hill)  Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Rand Paul (Ky.) are trying to avoid an ethanol landmine in Iowa. ... Iowa kingmakers in the party such as Sen. Chuck Grassley want the Republican presidential nominee in 2016 to champion ethanol. That’s

August 07, 2014 Read Full Article

Kansas GOP Set to Split over Renewable Fuel Standard in Bruising Primary Fight

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Kansas, one of the more interesting political battles of the US 2014 election season will take place on Tuesday August 4, when Republican (and Tea Party-fave) congressman Tim Huelskamp — who has called for

August 04, 2014 Read Full Article

The 25 Hottest Topics in the Advanced Bioeconomy

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  1. The Hot 50 and Hot 30:  A perennial favorite. This year, Solazyme topped the list while LanzaTech slipped into second place.  ... 2. The Top 100 People:  Another perennial. This year, international project developers made

July 31, 2014 Read Full Article

Vietnam Veteran Praises Braley in New Television Ad Broadcast Statewide

(VoteVets.org)  A Vietnam Veteran from Des Moines is featured in a new television ad campaign, today, praising Congressman Bruce Braley’s work to protect the Renewable Fuel Standard. The ad, sponsored by the veterans organization VoteVets.org, will air in the coming

July 17, 2014 Read Full Article

U.S. Senators Press for Probe of Report that Oil Companies Blocked Ethanol

by Ayesha Rascoe (Reuters) Two U.S. farm-state Senators on Wednesday urged federal regulators to investigate allegations raised by a biofuel trade group that the oil industry uses "strong arm tactics" to prevent widespread use of higher blends of ethanol in gasoline. A

July 10, 2014 Read Full Article

Pain at the Pump: Exxon, BP, ConocoPhillips, Chevron & Shell Earn “F” in Consumer Choice Report Card

(Renewable Fuels Association) A new “Consumer Choice Report Card” released by the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) grades some of the largest, most well-known retail gasoline chains based on whether they are providing consumers with alternatives to regular gasoline that cost less,

July 09, 2014 Read Full Article

New TV Ad on Iraq Turmoil, Rising Gas Prices: No Better Reason Why the EPA Must Preserve the RFS

(Americans United for Change)  With oil prices on the rise in response to the deteriorating situation in Iraq, Americans United for Change announced a major new ad campaign encouraging the EPA not to turn its back on a secure, safe,

July 09, 2014 Read Full Article

In New Twist, RFS Could Boost Electric Vehicles

by Amanda Peterka (E&E Publishing/Greenwire)  The federal policy used to build up the nation's ethanol and advanced biofuel capacity could soon be harnessed to spur the development of electric vehicle infrastructure. In a final rule issued last week, U.S. EPA said it

July 09, 2014 Read Full Article

Biofuel Advancement Threatened: How Can We Save the Renewable Fuel Standard?

by Jan Koninckx (DuPont Industrial Biosciences/Renewable Energy World)    Advanced biofuels are no longer a futuristic hope — they are here. This year, three companies including DuPont will turn on commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol biorefineries, the result of billions of dollars in

July 09, 2014 Read Full Article

EPA Establishes Quality Assurance for RINS

by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com)  In addition to the final rule approving crop residue as a cellulosic feedstock, the Environmental Protection Agency yesterday established a “voluntary quality assurance program” for renewable identification numbers, or RINs. The program is designed to maintain liquidity in the

July 03, 2014 Read Full Article

Freedom from High Gas Prices

(Renewable Fuels Association)  Sadly, drivers are expected to see skyrocketing gas prices this Independence Day as analysts at GasBuddy predict that Fourth of July prices will reach their highest level in six years. Tom Kloza, GasBuddy’s chief oil analyst, remarked, “Fear about what

July 02, 2014 Read Full Article

The Greensome Foursome: POET, Novozymes, Abengoa, NexSteppe on the Industry Outlook for 2014

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  As several major cellulosic biofuels ventures head for scale in 2014, we look at the companies, the major barriers (as they see them) for further capacity-building, sources for future investment, and a focus on feedstock. In

July 02, 2014 Read Full Article

Lankford Introduces Bill to Repeal RFS Ethanol Mandates

(Representative James Lankford (R-Okla.))  Provides common-sense solution for American-made energy Representative James Lankford (R-Okla.), Chairman of the House Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care and Entitlements, today introduced H.R. 4849, the Phantom Fuels Elimination Act. The legislation would repeal

June 17, 2014 Read Full Article

Delta Signs with Carbon War Room to Advance Renewable Jet Fuel

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ... Delta Air Lines is partnering with the Carbon War Room, a nonprofit organization founded by Sir Richard Branson, in an effort to accelerate low-carbon jet fuel production worldwide. This is part of the global carrier’s commitment

June 17, 2014 Read Full Article

Biodiesel Producers, Advocates Hit Capitol Hill

(National Biodiesel Board)  Nearly 100 biodiesel producers, feedstock suppliers and other advocates are traveling to Washington this week to voice concerns about the Obama Administration’s proposed Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) for biodiesel. The biodiesel supporters, who will be visiting with lawmakers

June 17, 2014 Read Full Article
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