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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the DOE’s overview of Biomass Conversion R&D

August 18, 2023 | Jim Lane

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 […]

Many Roads to the Big H: The Digest’s Guide to Hydrogen Roadmaps 2023

August 15, 2023 | Jim Lane

Later this week, the United States is conducting a webinar to describe in detail the U.S. National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap, including an explanation of the benefits of clean hydrogen and its role in the clean energy transition. Leaders from DOE and the White House will also discuss progress on the whole-of-government approach to clean […]

ACE calls on President Biden to allow year-round E15 sales

August 14, 2023 | Meghan Sapp

In Washington, American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) has called on U.S. President Joe Biden to ensure the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promptly finalizes its proposed regulation to eliminate the 1-pound per square inch (psi) Reid vapor pressure (RVP) waiver for gasoline containing 10 percent ethanol (E10) in eight states. In a letter to President […]

Rid us this Day our Daily Waste: New Path out of the Plastics Problem

August 14, 2023 | Jim Lane

Here is my Astronomy of Plastics, since you didn’t ask. Doomsayers about the shortcomings of plastics, they are like comets in the Kuiper Belt, too numerous to count, full of Hollywood disaster movie scenarios, ultimately and usually way off base. Proposers of solutions for the problems of plastics, those are more like the planets, fewer […]

Amyris’ bankruptcy filing: Complete details

August 10, 2023 | Jim Lane

Here follows the complete Amyris statement with respect to its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. Amyris, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMRS) (“Amyris” or the “Company”), a leading synthetic biotechnology company accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable consumption through its Lab-to-Market™ technology platform and clean beauty consumer brands, today announced that it is moving forward with an operational and […]

Summit Carbon Solutions secures 80% of voluntary easements in North Dakota

August 7, 2023 | Meghan Sapp

In Iowa, Summit Carbon Solutions has secured 80% of voluntary easements for its pipeline route in North Dakota and continues to negotiate with additional landowners every day. At the same time, the company is responding to the decision of the North Dakota Public Service Commission. Summit Carbon Solutions hears the Commission, including concerns with respect […]

Direct Air Capture of CO2: The Most Dangerous Idea in the World

August 3, 2023 | Jim Lane

By Dave Austgen, CEO, BioVeritas It may not be the stupidest idea ever postulated, but it is unequivocally one of the most dangerous. Direct Air Capture or DAC! To the average person it sounds like a fantastic solution to climate change driven by the increasing stock of CO2 in the atmosphere – let’s just take […]

ACT now: Aries Clean Technology on the cusp of its destiny

July 31, 2023 | Jim Lane

Today, a word or two in praise of sludge, the fudge we cannot budge, the smudge we cannot nudge. Sludge perplexes with complexity as it dazzles with carbon-negative opportunity. Abundant, cheap, unstoppable, impervious to the supply curves of economists, and disdainful of the attempts of landfillers to contain it. It has nowhere to go, and […]

EPA’s RFS Final Rulemaking 2023-25: The Bottom Line

July 30, 2023 | Jim Lane

By Jennifer LeRow, Project Director, Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Digest The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officially released the long-awaited Renewable Volume Obligation (RVO) numbers and other important updates to the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in its Final Rule on June 21, 2023, establishing annual obligations for the years 2023-2025. The optional 2026 […]

16 Candles

July 26, 2023 | Jim Lane

Today, July 27th, the Digest turns 16 years of age, and in some ways with the advanced bioeconomy we share the birthday, there was some gestation prior to the Digest’s appearance and the conventional bioeconomy had been with us for thousands of years and had experienced an energy renaissance, yes. Back then, however, there was […]