It’s 6 o’clock at the Digest editorial desk, and screens have given way to sunscreen. We’re scanning the day’s headlines from the shade, a glass of something red-amber in hand — the Diablito, a Florida Keys invention of rum, blood orange, lime, and a hint of trouble. In the late light, it looks suspiciously like […]
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has introduced its groundbreaking Net-Zero Framework, making shipping the first global industry with binding emissions reductions. Key news includes the 2027 enforcement of a mandatory greenhouse gas pricing mechanism and a goal-based marine fuel standard. The framework targets a 40% reduction in carbon intensity by 2030 and mandates lifecycle “well-to-wake” […]
The cold mountain air of the Milano Cortina Winter Games cuts like glass, but for a Giant Slalom skier crouched in the starting gate at Tofane, the world has narrowed to a single thing: the line. Five seconds. Beep… beep… beep… heart rate up, muscles coiled, then green. Attack. That’s where Europe’s advanced biofuels sector […]
Opal Fuels reported a 30% year-over-year increase in third-quarter RNG production, though Adjusted EBITDA fell to $19.5 million due to lower RIN prices and expired pathways. The company currently operates 12 RNG facilities with four more under construction, representing significant capacity growth. Opal reaffirmed its full-year 2025 Adjusted EBITDA guidance of 90–110 million and highlighted […]
Following its January 2024 creation, Novonesis unveiled its “Strategy 2030,” targeting 6–9% organic sales CAGR and an adjusted EBITDA margin of approximately 39% by the end of the decade. The company is expanding beyond its core 20 billion EUR playing field into a broader 60 billion EUR biosolutions market. Key growth drivers include investments in […]
Groucho Marx once wrote Many Happy Returns, a tongue-in-cheek tax guide. If he were here for Section 45Z, he might add a subtitle: “Provided You Registered Before the IRS Looked.” The good news: Treasury has — wait for it — released the proposed regulations for the 45Z clean fuel production credit. The document contains proposed […]
Green Plains reported strong 3Q 2025 progress, highlighting the completion of its Obion, Tennessee plant sale to repay $130.7 million in debt. The company’s decarbonization strategy is advancing with carbon capture fully operational at its York, Nebraska facility, while systems at Central City and Wood River are ramping up. Management executed a 45Z tax credit […]
It’s Oh-dark-thirty at Fort Methanol. Reveille has sounded. Intake complete. Heads shaved. Civilian clothes gone. Racks made. Fall in! “I don’t care where you came from,” the drill instructor shouts. “Corn stover. Landfill gas. Forest residues. Steel mill exhaust. Direct air capture. Doesn’t matter. I’m going to run you through heat, pressure, and current until […]
By CJ Evans, Co-Founder, Alternative Fuels & Chemicals Coalition, Project Manager, Federal Funding Services Special to The Digest Editor’s Note: CJ Evans and his teams of subject matter experts have helped more than 250 companies of all sizes prepare applications for federal grants and loan guarantees over the past 20 years. He has seen far […]
By CJ Evans, Co-Founder, Alternative Fuels & Chemicals Coalition, Project Manager, Federal Funding Services Special to The Digest Editor’s Note: CJ Evans and his teams of subject matter experts have helped more than 250 companies of all sizes prepare applications for federal grants and loan guarantees over the past 20 years. He has seen far […]
