Chu, in Review by Robert Kozak, Advanced Biofuels USA Secretary of the Department of Energy Steven Chu announced his resignation Friday in a 3,700 word “Dear Colleague” address. While this is the time usually reserved for valedictory addresses or sentimental remembrances, I for one cannot do that. For me, and I’d guess other supporters of […]
In Washington, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced his decision to not serve a second term as Secretary. Text of the letter follows: Serving the country as Secretary of Energy, and working alongside such an extraordinary team of people at the Department, has been the greatest privilege of my life. While the job has had many […]
In Canada, Iogen Corporation announced today that Danish enzyme manufacturer Novozymes will acquire its wholly owned industrial enzyme business, Iogen Bio-Products, for a purchase price of $67.45 million and potential earn-out payments up to $12.5 million. The deal provides Novozymes with all commercial rights to Iogen Bio-Products’ existing product portfolio, pipeline, facilities and know-how. Iogen […]
The 2013 RFS2 proposed standards are out – what do they mean? Who’s in clover, who’s in trouble? Our 10-Minute Guide details the Volumes, the Issues and the Opportunities. In Washington, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its proposed 2013 Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS2). The proposal will be open for a 45-day public comment period and […]
Three dissident voices offer challenges to cherished orthodoxies. “When experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana There is an old manuscript, Of Plymouth Plantation, written by an ancestor of mine named William Bradford, that deals with the terrors of […]
By Douglas L. Faulkner, “The Cleantech Conservative” The dictionary defines a Pyrrhic Victory as a victory achieved at too great a cost. Well, the ancient Greeks would indeed quickly identify the Pyrrhic implications of the recent midnight resolution of the fiscal cliff. That is, the cost of renewed tax breaks for the biofuels industry came […]
Is the government’s commitment to alternative fuels being stymied by the American Petroleum Institute, or is the Department of Energy stymying the commitment all by itself? Commentary from the National Algae Association The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia recently canceled a mandate from the Environmental Protection Agency that required refiners to […]
By Pamela Serino Director, Quality Tech Support Office Defense Logistics Agency Energy In this note, Ms,. Serino is responding to DNV: biofuels are key to meeting marine emissions targets. I agree that biofuels are the key and the easiest way forward at this time. A mandate in all countries to go to ULSD marine fuel would […]
Who’s right, in the fight of their lives over E15 ethanol blending? Whose data’s from Toontown, whose from the real-world? Yesterday the American Petroleum Institute held a press conference in DC to highlight a new report from the Coordinating Research Council on E15 ethanol blends. The report is here. The API: Blast your scuppers, now […]
It is becoming increasingly evident that, in the near-term, acute demand for aviation biofuel is going, one way or another, to result in heavy demand for jatropha and jatropha oil-based fuels. New deals for SGB in Brazil are confirming the trend. There, at the head of the pack, well down the track from everyone else […]
