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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to United Airlines and SAF

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to United Airlines and SAF

June 29, 2023 |

United’s been so out-front of SAF, it’s hard to enumerate all the activities. Investment in production, off-take deals, working on standards, work on communications and engagement with policymakers and passengers. United’s Managing Director, Global Environmental Affairs and Sustainability, Lauren Riley, gave this update on the company’s progress and plans at ABLC 2023.

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Ethanol Industry…Beyond Ethanol

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Ethanol Industry…Beyond Ethanol

June 28, 2023 |

A distinguished member of the Due Diligence Wolfpack, Michele Rubino, gave this illuminating presentation as part of the REenergize weekly series on opportunities for the ethanol industry, beyond fuel ethanol, in the face of an expected sharp decline in the gasoline market. SAF, renewable chemicals, ammonia fertilizer, renewable diesel — all options on the table […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the Bioenergy Technologies Office

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the Bioenergy Technologies Office

June 27, 2023 |

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (establishes partnerships with key public and private stakeholders to develop technologies for producing cost-competitive advanced biofuels from non-food biomass resources, including cellulosic biomass, algae, and wet waste (e.g., biosolids). BETO works with a broad spectrum of government, industrial, academic, agricultural, and nonprofit partners across the United States […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to GreenStar BCS

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to GreenStar BCS

June 27, 2023 |

Green Star BCS provides clients with the technical, market, and economic expertise to thrive as they shift toward a more sustainable economy. We collaborate with clients across the energy and renewable power sectors, providing pragmatic, sensible decarbonization and sustainability solutions to meet their challenging energy transition goals. GreenStar BCS Chief Carbon Technologies Officer Soheil Razjouyan […]

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Cyanobacteria in Sustainable Agriculture 

Cyanobacteria in Sustainable Agriculture 

June 26, 2023 |

By: Dr. Randy Simpson Expert, Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Digest Cyanobacteria are a group of photosynthetic bacteria that can live in diverse environments, such as soil, water, and rocks. Handled properly, they can have several beneficial effects on crop growth, including helping control plant disease, reducing pest damage, increasing crop quality, and improving […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Yield10 Biosciences

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Yield10 Biosciences

June 22, 2023 |

Yield10 is now advancing camelina as a low Carbon Intensity biofuels feedstock crop. Long-term, they are looking at PHA camelina for high value PHA bioplastics. The commercial opportunity in relay cropping is huge too and camelina can help as a replenishable reserve, even in the winter. CEO Olly Peoples gave this update on the company’s […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Global Clean Energy Holdings

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Global Clean Energy Holdings

June 21, 2023 |

Global Clean Energy, a vertically integrated renewable fuels business that is focused on reducing transportation-related carbon emissions sustainably through its proprietary camelina varieties – the only varieties currently qualified for both federal and California standards for low carbon emissions. CEO Richard Palmer gave this comprehensive overview of the company’s march towards scale at ABLC 2023.

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Grassley Condemns “Biden Biofuels Bait-And-Switch”

Grassley Condemns “Biden Biofuels Bait-And-Switch”

June 21, 2023 |

In Washington, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), one of the Senate’s only corn farmers, today criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final rule setting minimum biofuels blending levels for the next three years below current production capabilities. While the plan makes modest increases to blend levels for certain biodiesel products, the overall biofuels volume remains unchanged […]

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The cold shower: EPA finalizes US Renewable Fuel Standard volumes for 2023-25

The cold shower: EPA finalizes US Renewable Fuel Standard volumes for 2023-25

June 21, 2023 |

In Washington, the cause of rapid decarbonization received its annual cold shower from the Environmental Protection Agency. EPA announced a final rule to establish low-carbon renewable fuel volume requirements for 2023–2025, and received low marks from the associations representing heavy-duty fuels. Here’s the Tale of the Tape: What the EPA said This final rule includes […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to ABB

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to ABB

June 20, 2023 |

This is one ABLC slide guide you don’t want to miss! ABB’s John Oyen shares what ABB Energy Industries is all about, highlights  ways developers/producers can improve profitability and much more. ABB is a technology leader in electrification and automation, enabling a more sustainable and resource-efficient future.

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