The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has commenced hearings to revise standards for green marketing. The Commission’s environmental marketing guidelines have not been updated since 1998, and do not include a standard for “carbon-neutral”, for example. Recently the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority ruled against ads run by the Malaysian Palm Board, while the Belgian ad watchdog organization ruled against ads by Saab claiming that the “Biopower” cars make roads “finally turn green”.
Vinod Khosla published three articles on Gristmill (Parts I, II, and III) under the title “Pragmatists vs. Environmentalists”, in which the noted investor said that marketing campaigns aimed at “greenwashing” were making hybrids cars more popular than E85, although even corn ethanol reduces emissions, mile for mile, as much as hybrids.
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The Wall Street Journal has profiled the sharply increased tempo of activities of Bio Oil in the research and production of bio-oil, or bio-crude. The current energy-transportation syste...
The Malaysian government has delayed implementation of the Malaysian Biofuel Industry Act, better known as EnvoDiesel, due to high palm oil prices that make biodiesel production less profitable. Malay...
In Malaysia, AmanahRaya Investment Bank and Asian Finance Bank announced a $294 million Islamic green fund that will invest in biofuel ventures in Malaysia, among other eco-friendly projects that are ...
In Malaysia, crude palm oil futures reached a record $876 per ton, tracking the increase in oil prices to more than $96 per barrel.
The Malaysian government delayed implementation of the Malaysian ...
In Malaysia, skyrocketing palm oil prices are expected to delay the opening of four new Malaysian biodiesel facilities scheduled to open in 2007.
Government officials say that unless world oil pric...
In Washington, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission issued its “2008 Report on Ethanol Market Concentration,” finding that the ethanol industry lacks sufficient consolidation for any single market pl...
