Category: Policy

Representatives DeLauro and Clark applaud USDA funding of first-ever National Institute for Cellular Agriculture

October 17, 2021 | admin

In Washington, D.C., Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Katherine Clark (D-MA) joined The Good Food Institute in acknowledging the critical significance of USDA awarding Tufts University $10 million over five years to establish the National Institute for Cellular Agriculture – the creation of the first-ever U.S. government-funded cultivated protein research center of excellence and represents […]

RFA reminds President Biden ethanol benefits and promises

October 14, 2021 | Meghan Sapp

In Washington, in response to media reports that the White House has been meeting with oil industry officials to discuss solutions to recent higher gas prices, the Renewable Fuels Association has reminded President Biden that efforts to encourage more use of high-carbon fossil fuels, including imported oil, to stem higher gasoline prices are “clearly antithetical to […]

IEA says global energy transition ambitions not strong enough

October 13, 2021 | Meghan Sapp

In France, a new energy economy is emerging around the world as solar, wind, electric vehicles and other low-carbon technologies flourish. But as the pivotal moment of COP26 approaches, the IEA’s new World Energy Outlook makes it clear that this clean energy progress is still far too slow to put global emissions into sustained decline […]

India sees ethanol consumption jumping five-fold with flex-fuel vehicles

October 12, 2021 | Meghan Sapp

In India, India Infrahub reports that the transportation minister believes by mandating the manufacture of domestic flex-fuel engines will see ethanol demand jump five-fold, ensuring achievement of 20% ethanol blending by 2025. E20 is expected to require 10 billion liters of ethanol consumption annually. At the moment, the sugar industry provides 90% of ethanol production. […]

Indian transport minister converts his own tractor to bio-CNG to set example

October 11, 2021 | Meghan Sapp

In India, the Press Trust of India reports the transportation minister told soy producers over the weekend that he has personally converted his tractor to run on compressed biogas to demonstrate how farmers should follow his lead to use more CNG and LNG in food and feedstock production. The government has recently come under fire […]

Governor Walz pushes forward directive for Clean Fuel Standard in Minnesota

October 10, 2021 | admin

In Minnesota, Governor Tim Walz (D) directed the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and Minnesota Department of Transportation to lead engagement of a broad range of stakeholders across the state to help inform a new Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) in Minnesota. The agencies will provide a report summarizing the results and recommendations in February 2022. This […]

South African sugar industry in talks with government for ethanol production subsidy

October 7, 2021 | Meghan Sapp

In South Africa, Bloomberg reports the South African Sugar Association is discussing with the government the possibility of converting the sugar it exports at a loss, some 800,000 metric tons annually, into ethanol from domestic consumption instead. Doing so would turn the finances of the sugar mills and sugarcane farmers around, but only if the […]

Malaysia says it will implement B20 by end-2022

October 6, 2021 | Meghan Sapp

In Malaysia, the Edge Markets reports the government still plans to complete its B20 rollout, now hoping to do so by end-2022. Upgrades for biodiesel blending infrastructure remains a major hurdle to the mandate’s implementation, according to the plantations minister, who puts the blame on COVID-19 impacting the availability of technical staff to get the […]

Growth Energy files petition with Supreme Court over E15 ruling

October 5, 2021 | Meghan Sapp

In Washington, Growth Energy filed a petition for certiorari in the United States Supreme Court Tuesday, asking the Court to review a D.C. Circuit opinion in American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, et al. vs. EPA, in which the D.C. Circuit vacated a 2019 EPA rule allowing year-round sales of a 15-percent ethanol fuel blend (E15). The D.C. Circuit decision overturned EPA’s interpretation of a provision of the Clean […]

China unofficially drops E10 blending mandate

October 4, 2021 | Meghan Sapp

In China, Western Producer magazine reports that according to USDA Foreign Agriculture Service analysis, China has effectively dropped its E10 blending mandate and will only achieve 2.1% in 2021. The country announced in 2017 it would achieve 10% by 2020 with the market expecting much of that volume to come from US imports until the […]

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