In Belgium, the former head of NATO who is now advising the Danish biofuel industry wants the European Union to set a target for 5% advanced biofuel blending by 2030, despite the fuel being more expensive, saying the current non-binding 0.5% by 2020 isn’t enough to spur the investments required to transition towards even cleaner […]
In Canada, the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC) and Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) are offering up to $40 million to Canadian innovators producing energy efficiency and conservation; carbon dioxide utilization, methane reduction, or cleaner energy production and usage projects. SDTC remarks, “CCEMC and SDTC have had great success together funding these types […]
In the Philippines, the Dept. of Justice has backed a push to exempt natural gas power plants from mandatory biodiesel blending. A bill in each of the two legislative houses seeks to amend the 2006 biofuel law that required the blend in an effort to reduce rolling blackouts during the summer months when the power […]
In Washington, the Senate Environment and Public Works hearing held Wednesday about Renewable Fuel Standard oversight saw both Democrats and Republicans sparring over the controversial policy. The committee’s Republican chairman said the EPA had hurt everyone in the supply chain from farmers to blenders in their mismanagement of the policy, calling it unstable. The Democratic […]
In Canada, the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance has called upon national leaders to take advantage of the low price and abundant stockpiles of crude oil to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies. Baker pointed to the latest figures from the International Energy Agency that estimated global fossil fuel subsidies to be worth $490 billion, and outlined how […]
In Washington, the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee is set to hold a hearing on the Renewable Fuel Standard on Wednesday so ahead of the meeting the anti-ethanol group American Council for Capital Formation has begun airing ads in the Washington area saying that Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s success in Iowa demonstrates that […]
In Quebec, BioFuelNet Canada has partnered with Talk Energy Week to participate as panelists at schools in eight Canadian cities, where they will be discussing sustainable advanced biofuels with over 1800 grade 11 and 12 students. Each participating classroom will be sent a series of educational infographics, illustrating various types of biofuels, where they come […]
In New York state, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced an agreement with Buffalo Biodiesel, a company that collects cooking oil waste and converts it into biodiesel, over claims that the company filed lawsuits against hundreds of small businesses across Western New York and several surrounding states. The over 600 lawsuits, most of which […]
In Washington, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told the House Committee on Agriculture at a hearing on Feb. 11 her agency has been working hard to approve new feedstock pathways including LCAs on new feedstocks to help farmers benefit from the Renewable Fuel Standard. She recognized that renewable volume obligations for 2014 through 2016 were below […]
In Argentina, the government has reversed its recent trend of supporting biofuel producers and providing them some respite from a weakened international market and has instead imposed raised biodiesel export taxes to 3.89% from a record low of 1.62% while boosting domestic biodiesel prices by 5%, both of which are retroactive to Feb. 1. To […]
