In Japan, Japan Times reports the government has announced a net zero policy for 2050 with airlines required to participate. As a result, national airlines are getting behind SAF in a big way in order to cut their emissions. Japan Airlines aims to cut its emission by 45% using first 10% SAF by 2030 with […]
In the Midwest, Reuters reports that renewable fuel companies are so far beating out the newcomer refiners in the race to secure feedstock for renewable diesel and Sustainable Aviation Fuel as demonstrated by Renewable Energy Group, Darling Ingredients and Nest beating 2Q estimates while some refiners have stepped back from their ambitious plans. Demand for […]
In India, ETnow and MoneyControl report the government wants to switch ethanol transportation to pipelines, as in Brazil, from current rail and truck transportation. Discussions with pipeline manufacturers for dedicated ethanol pipelines as well as the Indian Oil Corporation have been held. Already ethanol is expected to be shipped from IOC’s Barauni refinery in Bihar […]
In New Jersey, duckweed is an excellent laboratory model for scientists to discover new strategies for growing hardier and more sustainable crops in an age of climate change and global population boom, a Rutgers-led study finds. Researchers from Rutgers, the Salk Institute and an international team of specialists reviewed the anatomy, growth, physiology and molecular […]
In Washington, Growth Energy, the National Corn Growers Association, and the Renewable Fuels Association filed a petition for rehearing with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the recent American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, et al. vs. EPA decision, in which the court vacated a 2019 regulation allowing year-round sales of a fifteen percent ethanol […]
In Canada, Xfuels Inc. has signed an oilseed supply and biodiesel off-take agreement with an Indigenous-owned company Infinity Petroleum Energy Resources Inc. The company will purchase from Infinity Energy oilseed for its biodiesel production as wells as Infinity Energy will market Xfuels biodiesel product. Michael McLaren said, “Infinity Energy had previously negotiated long- term oilseed […]
In Illinois, Bloomberg reports a US District Court judge has thrown out an attempted antitrust case over Archer Daniels Midland allegedly manipulating ethanol prices, saying the lead plaintiff hadn’t sufficiently proven that it had been “knocked out of the market”. As a result, the judge for the Central District of Illinois has given the company […]
In Oman, the startup 44.01 wants to capture CO2 emissions and turn it into stone for as a new “plug and play” model for carbon sequestration. It has secured $5 million in seed funding which is enough to get moving on the environmental and other permits required for construction on the northern coast of Oman […]
In California, local press reports that the Monterey-Salinas Transit has been awarded a $594,919 grant from the state’s Department of Transportation to reduce GHG emissions in regional transport, including for purchasing renewable diesel for its existing diesel buses. The diesel bus fleet is expected to reduce its GHG emissions by 20,148 metric tons per year. […]
In Japan, Kyodo News reports that Nishida Shoun, a local transportation firm, has extracted lard from waste ramen broth and mixed it with used cooking oil-based biodiesel to produce a fuel for running its fleet of trucks. The “tonkotsu” ramen broth is made from cooking down pork bones. The company expects to use the biodiesel […]
