Last November, Donald J. Trump was elected President by the voters of Paris. Paris, PA, that is. It’s a suburb of Pittsburgh, as it happens. Of “I was elected by voters of Pittsburgh, not Paris,” fame. Where Pittsburgh mayor Bill Peduto joined the mayors of more than 175 cities in a rebel yell that has […]
The EPA administers the US Renewable Fuels Standards out of the Office of Transportation and Air Quality, and management of the Standard has come under increasing scrutiny from critics of renewable fuels, and supporters of advanced biofuels. The EPA”s Paul Argyropoulos gave this illuminating presentation on EPA’s oversight of the RFS, at ABLC 2017 in […]
In Washington, numerous pro-ethanol groups marked the official beginning of the Environmental Protection Agency’s “summer ozone control season,” which essentially prohibits retail gas stations from selling E15 (gasoline containing 15% ethanol) in more than two-thirds of the nation’s gasoline market. According to the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA), the de facto prohibition on summertime E15 sales […]
In France, Deinove commenced the second phase of its animal nutrition R&D project initiated with Flint Hills Resources in November 2015. The project, initiated in 2015 and financed by Flint Hills Resources, aims to develop a nutritional supplement for animal feed. This first phase successfully selected several bacterial strains from Deinove’s library producing the targeted compounds. On the basis of efficacy tests, […]
In Switzerland, Evolva confirmed that the Company is negotiating a sole-source contract with the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority to advance the development and EPA registration of Evolva’s nootkatone product to help in the fight against the mosquitoes that transmit Zika virus. The news represents the latest expansion of Evolva’s nootkatone work with […]
In Washington, according to EIA data as analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association, US ethanol production averaged 1.020 million barrels per day (b/d)—or 42.84 million gallons daily. That is up 10,000 b/d (1.0%) from the week before. The four-week average for ethanol production was 1.016 million b/d, for an annualized rate of 15.58 billion gallons. […]
In Colorado, SynTech Bioenergy completed the installation of its newest facility which will convert pecan shells into electricity in Texas. Five similar plants are currently operating on walnut shells in California; the first plant dates back to 2008. BioMax output is scalable from 165kWe to 1MWe and is modular, containerized, easily transportable, remotely operable and powered by a variety of abundant biomass […]
In Canada, the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance released a new 10-year chart showing opposite trends in the UN FAO’s Food Price Index and world fuel ethanol production since 2008, “demonstrating clearly that ethanol production is not a main driver of global food prices”. The chart uses the latest world fuel ethanol production data from F.O. […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that “ample global soybean supply and an increase in soybean acreage in the US for the upcoming 2017 crop put downward pressure on Chicago soybean prices. Rapeseed in Paris also flagged, but remained at the previous year’s level thanks to shaky harvest outlooks.” The nearby for soybean in Chicago dropped to […]
In China, Mission Innovation and Biofuture Platform will host a side event “Scaling Up the Low Carbon Bioeconomy”. June 8, at the China National Convention Center, Beijing, as part of the CEM8 and Mission Innovation 2 Ministerial in Beijing. The event will highlight the recent contributions of Mission Innovation Sustainable Biofuels Innovation Challenge (SBIC) and the Biofuture Platform […]
