By Richard Gilmore, President/CEO, GIC Group Special to The Digest A carbon tax is a tax on everything except carbon. Arguments in its favor seem to accept that climate change is a real threat to economic growth and that the best remedy to staunch future bleeding is to tax carbon emissions at the wellhead or the coal […]
In Washington, according to crowd-sourced data from the Renewable Fuels Association’s E85prices.com, the national price spread between regular unleaded and E85 has never been greater in the 17 years of tracking on the website. That price differential is currently at 33% for the month of November, or more than 8 percentage points higher than any […]
In Washington, a new report concluded that U.S. feed grain and grain products exports were worth $18.9 billion in 2015 and supported $55.5 billion in economic output. These exports were linked directly or indirectly to nearly 262,000 jobs. Results showed every $1 of grain exports generated supported an additional $2.19 in business sales. And every […]
In Tennessee, researchers from the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture have received a $225,000 grant from the Federal Aviation Administration to begin a three-year project to perform a multitude of techno-market analyses of U.S. biorefinery supply chains from feedstock to alternative jet fuels. This research is part of the Aviation Sustainability Center (ASCENT) project—a […]
In Washington, a coalition of the nation’s leaders in advanced and cellulosic biofuels thanked President Trump for his commitment to the RFS, which “has attracted billions of dollars of investment in first-of-a-kind technologies in the advanced and cellulosic biofuels industry.” They also express concerns about the EPA’s July proposal to reduce White House-approved growth in […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that the EU Commission lowered its forecast for the EU-28 sunflower output in 2017 from the previous month. Whereas French harvest figures are surprisingly positive, Romania’s harvest is lower than expected. In its latest monthly estimate, the EU Commission forecast the EU sunflowerseed harvest slightly down. In September, production was projected […]
In Switzerland, Evolva raised gross proceeds of approximately CHF 65 million from its shareholder rights offering and CHF 21 million from a recent private placement, for total gross proceeds of approximately CHF 86 million. The new registered shares were offered to existing Evolva shareholders at a subscription price of CHF 0.22 per new share. As […]
In Illinois, NASA and challenge partner Bradley University opened Phase 3 of NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge for registration. The Centennial Challenges competition is seeking ways to create or develop the technologies needed to create such habitats on-site, and challenges citizen inventors to lead the way. The 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge is divided into phases. The Phase 1: Design Competition […]
In Washington, according to EIA data as analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association, US ethanol production averaged 1.057 million barrels per day —or 44.39 million gallons daily. That is up 1,000 b/d from the week before and the fourth-highest rate of output ever recorded. The four-week average for ethanol production increased 2% to 1.043 million […]
In Colorado, DMC Biotechnologies was awarded a National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Phase II grant for $600,000 to commercialize their proprietary high throughput metabolic engineering platform that enables the rapid development of microbial hosts for the production of a broad diversity of bio-based products. The comapny also recently picked up a National Institute […]
