In Brazil, northeastern sugar millers are concerned that the Ministry of Finance will work in favor of foreign ethanol imports from the US rather than protecting their domestic industry when the proposed reinstatement of an import tariff on ethanol comes up for a vote at the Brazilian Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday. The agriculture ministry […]
In Vietnam, ethanol distilleries are running into technical troubles, which are putting into doubt the E5 blending mandate postponed until January 1, 2018. Currently, Tung Lam Co is the only ethanol producer nationally, with a capacity of 150,000 metric tons per year, far from enough to supply the national mandate. What’s more, its southern location […]
In Brazil, the country’s agriculture minister is seeking up to a 20% import tariff on US ethanol following a surge in imports of 720 million liters during the first quarter of the year, five times higher than the same period last year. Sugar mills have favored sugar over ethanol during the past season as world […]
In South Dakota, the American Coalition for Ethanol submitted a public comment focused on its ethanol priorities soon after EPA formally began seeking input on existing regulations to be reviewed by its newly established Regulatory Reform Task Force. The Task Force was formed in response to Executive Order 13777 to evaluate existing regulations and make […]
In Washington, with the future of its cellulosic ethanol plant in Nevada, Iowa in mind, DuPont is among major companies across the economy urging President Trump to keep the United States in the Paris Agreement on climate change. In a letter to the president organized by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, C2ES, 16 companies say […]
In Washington, Senator Chuck Grassley introduced his biodiesel producers credit again, in hopes that the current attention on potentially damaging imports from Argentina and Indonesia will help attract support for his proposed legislation. The $1 per gallon biodiesel blenders credit expired the end of last year and has been widely expected for renewal, but as […]
In Washington, an appeals court judge said that the Environmental Protection Agency may have overstepped its bounds by reducing the Renewable Volume Obligations for advanced biofuels between 2014-2016. In response to oral arguments held Monday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on the petition for review of the Renewable […]
In India, oil marketing companies are getting hit hard with a new 6% excise duty on biodiesel along with a slew of other taxes that they say will make the mandated biodiesel blending unviable. Biodiesel was excise duty-free for 10 years. The mandate’s implementation has been delayed to at least May 1 from the planned […]
In Iowa, the Iowa Legislature voted to secure another year of funding for the state’s blender pump program – which has successfully led to millions of dollars worth of investment in new pumps and equipment that offer the choice of higher ethanol and biodiesel blends to consumers. House File 643 include funding for RFIP at […]
In Iowa, a proposed amendment to HSB 187 seeks to cap the biofuel tax credit scheme by issuing credits only after annual sales figures for fuel retailers were calculated, at which point the per gallon figure for the tax credit would be determined. Petroleum marketers are concerned that the policy shift, after the tax credit […]
