In Norway, the Parliament approved a list of biofuel-related policies from asking the government to ban the use and public procurement of palm oil-based biodiesel to implementing the European Union’s sustainability criteria for biofuels. What’s more, it called on the fuel retail industry to join together in order to not use palm oil-based biodiesel and […]
In Washington, more than 25 advanced biofuel producers and trade associations sent a letter to members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Monday, asking them to support the Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act (S.517), the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) and Advanced Biofuels Business Council (ABBC) announced. Under current law, fuels containing […]
In Washington, the Senate bill that looks to scratch the Reid Vapor Pressure rule that currently forbids E15 from being sold during summer months will be heard before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on June 14 which some say could be a precursor to wider reforms of the Renewable Fuel Standard, or even […]
In Argentina, the US government has offered to resume biodiesel imports in exchange for the country’s quicker approval of seeds developed by American companies. A law was proposed in the Argentine legislature last year that would speed up the regulatory approval process while also allowing for fines to be lobbed against farmers who store seeds […]
In Washington, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse, Elizabeth Warren, Debbie Stabenow, Jeff Merkley and Tammy Duckworth wrote a letter to the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency requesting that he hand over any reports, data and briefings exchanged between the agency, Carl Icahn and/or CVR Energy. The Senators and others have voiced concerns over the past months […]
In Washington, despite concerns voiced by liberal watchdog groups as well as Democratic congressmen for the past several months regarding Carl Icahn’s role in the RIN market, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission confirmed to eight Democratic senators last month that it is not officially investigating his activity because RINs are not traded on futures markets. […]
In Washington, the next policy deep dive on the Renewable Fuel Standard could come in the next couple of weeks, should the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee convene a hearing as is being batted around on Capital Hill. There are still plenty in the anti-RFS movement seeking to have the policy repealed during the […]
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 South Dakota, Thursday marked the beginning of the EPA-imposed low Reid vapor pressure (RVP) season, effectively banning the sale of lower-cost, higher-octane E15 until Sept. 15, even though E15 has lower RVP and lower emissions than the gasoline sold in those markets each summer. E15 is an unleaded gasoline that can be used in […]
In Romania, as the country looks to boost its biofuel blending to 8% come January 1 after a freeze at 4.5% between 2014 and 2018, its sole ethanol producer is concerned that oil companies may choose to import the required ethanol rather than support the local industry, leading to more production. The most recent statistics […]
