In Washington, as the Environmental Protection Agency boosts its ethanol blending mandate for 2017 to a record high of more than 18 billion gallons, Renewable Fuel Standard opponents are mounting up in Congress to reform or repeal the legislation in the next session. Already H.R. 5180, that seeks to limit ethanol blending at below the […]
In Washington, the Wall Street Journal has likened the economic impact of oil companies’ obligation to blend biofuels or buy RINs under the Renewable Fuel Standard to when banks busted the US economy with mortgage-backed securities. It blames the EPA for choosing to make oil refiners and importers as the obligated party for creating a […]
In Washington, Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilsack says that ethanol is too embedded in rural areas to be at risk from a Trump Administration. Trump has become well known for bouncing back and forth on his opinion about ethanol and the Renewable Fuel Standard, on one hand publically supporting it and on another listening to cronies […]
In Finland, UPM Biofuels has joined the below50 coalition to promote the most sustainable fuels that can achieve significant carbon reductions – and scale up their development and use. Below50 is one of the newest initiatives in sustainable fuels, and it brings together forward-thinking businesses with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Roundtable […]
In Washington, the White House released a mid-century strategy (MCS) that envisions economy-wide net GHG emissions reductions of 80 percent or more below 2005 levels by 2050. The United States MCS charts a path that is achievable, consistent with the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement, and an acceleration of existing market trends. It will […]
In Washington, BP Fuels and Marathon Petroleum are urging lawmakers to pass the Flores-Welch bill introduced in May that would cap ethanol blending at 9.7%, a bill the COO of BP Fuels North America says has 117 cosponsors in the House. What direction president-elect Donald Trump will take on the Renewable Fuel Standard and biofuels […]
In Washington, as part of a wide ranging policy announcement from the Obama Administration, the Department of Energy launched a Sustainable Biofuels Innovation Challenge to develop ways to produce, at scale, widely affordable, advanced biofuels for transportation and industrial applications, one of seven Innovation Challenges that highlight clean energy areas with the potential to play […]
In India, the transportation minister said the country’s financial institutions are not equipped to structure the more than $880 million in soft loans held by the sugarcane industry, financing that would help many integrate or boost ethanol production. As policy shifts are needed to allow mills to produce ethanol from grade B molasses, he instead […]
In Washington, the US EPA proposed to deny requests from petitioners to initiate a rulemaking to change the point of obligation for compliance under the Renewable Fuel Standard program. Due to the importance, complexity, and broad stakeholder interest in this issue, the agency is taking public comment on the proposed denials to ensure we receive […]
In Washington, after consideration of all relevant information available to EPA on the issue, including information submitted by petitioners, available fuels market data, and information gathered by EPA from multiple market participants and interested parties, EPA is proposing to deny requests to initiate a rulemaking process to reconsider or change the regulations at 40 CFR […]
