In China, the government has decided to end its decade-long corn stockpiling program that has seen stocks grow to around 250 million metric tons, a move that will allow domestic corn prices to fall in line with international prices—currently at a 50% premium to the global market—and will lead to a significant shift in ethanol […]
In Argentina, the government has boosted the ethanol-blending mandate to 12% from the current 10% with immediate effect. The move is meant to help support sugarcane producers during a time of low sugar and ethanol prices, as promised by the president in February. Last year’s ethanol production rose more than 21% to 815,407 metric tons, […]
In Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an appearance at the GLOBE 2016 Conference in Vancouver last week, visiting the BioCube transportable biodiesel refinery for a walk-through of the process. Trudeau expressed interest in the applications for the BioCube in developing economies such as India, Africa, China, SE Asia, and Latin America. The BioCube is […]
In Georgia, the state’s legislature has approved a bill that halts Kinder Morgan’s planned $1 billion ethanol, gasoline and diesel Palmetto Pipeline project that would transport fuel across 360 miles from South Carolina through Georgia and into Florida. The bill puts a one-year moratorium on permits for all petroleum pipelines in the state. Landowners in […]
In Switzerland, the World Trade Organization ruled that the European Union’s anti-dumping tariffs against Argentine biodiesel imports weren’t inherently illegal but ruled in favor of Argentina on several counts where the EU inconsistently applied the WTO’s antidumping rules, including how it calculated the tariffs. Both sides have 60 days to appeal the decision which the […]
In Washington, the Brookings Institute says that a small tweak to language in the Energy Independence and Security Act’s definition of renewable biomass for woody debris to include that from federal lands would produce a vast amount of new RINs to help achieve GHG emission reductions goals. Currently the definition excludes woody debris from federal […]
In Washington, the National Biodiesel Board is seeking the transition of the blending credit to a producers credit and that the credit be extended beyond the end of the year when the blending credit expires. It believes that despite being an election year the association has a good shot at moving its proposals forward to […]
In Washington, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) along with 17 other senators sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urging them to follow the congressional intent of the Renewable Fuel Standard by increasing blending targets under the RFS for 2017. POET, Growth Energy, BIO, ADM, the Advanced Biofuesl Business Council, the […]
In Brazil, the president has signed into law a proposal passed by both legislative houses to boost the biodiesel blend to 7%, to 8% in 2017 and 10% in 2019. Simultaneously, the government will undergo B15 trials over the next three years to ensure that the national fleet can operate with higher blends. The national […]
In India, the government is sorting out its new transport department that will focus on clean public transport with buses running on ethanol, biodiesel, biogas and even electric vehicles all in an effort to reduce the government’s fuel costs. The new structure will work closely with green funds in order to facilitate the investments on […]
