In California, Gov. Jerry Brown called the derailment of efforts to cut gasoline cosumption “a well-financed oil industry effort”, but Brown vowed to keep pushing on efforts to reduce the state’s petroleum usage. From California, the Low Carbon Fuels Coalition said it was “idisappointed to see the petroleum reduction aspect of SB 350 removed,” but […]
In Spain, the national regulator CNMC won’t support a move to combine the ethanol and biodiesel blending quotas into a single quota, a shift that it says would damage the investments that have so far been made in the sector. Specifically, it fears the quota would lead to an over-reliance on biodiesel to fulfill the […]
In Washington, the American Petroleum Institute commissioned a study by NERA Economic Consulting that shows that following the blending mandate planned for the RFS2 would require 30% more RINs produced in 2014 than there actually was, requiring up to $100 more per gallon for gasoline and diesel than currently in 2015. It argues that the […]
In Denmark, in an interview with Clean Technica, the CEO of Novozymes has called on global leaders to be bold at the COP21 in Paris and agree to “firm and aggressive numbers” for reducing climate changing GHG emissions with an eye to increased use of biofuels, both conventional and biomass-based advanced biofuels. With the clear […]
In Washington, ActionAid USA is linking the use of biofuels in the US with growing demand for ethanol—and therefore sugarcane—in Brazil that it says is encroaching on organic farmers in Brazil in an attempt to bring back the food vs fuel debate. The article completely ignores the fact that Brazil has been building its own […]
In Iowa, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has added three years and $8.48 million to the grant supporting the NSF Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals based at Iowa State University. That brings NSF’s total funding of the center (known as CBiRC, “See-burk”) to the maximum allowed: 10 years and $35.26 million. NSF support of […]
In Indonesia, the government is positive about the WTO dispute panel that was recently established on Monday against the European Union as the country seeks to get Europe to withdraw its antidumping duties on Indonesian biodiesel. A similar dispute panel was set up for Argentina against the EU in April 2014 and is still not […]
In Washington, as boaters head into the Labor Day weekend and fill up their boat’s gas tank for one last hurrah of the season, a vast majority say they want ethanol-free gas, but only about half surveyed by the Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS) say it is available to them at marinas […]
In Washington, U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp announced $250,000 in federal funding for research at the University of North Dakota (UND) to study biomass as a biofuel and solar energy absorption by nanoparticles. “North Dakota has a rich heritage of conservation and we must continue to develop and use our natural resources responsibly,” said Heitkamp. “That also […]
In India, the tender launched last week to secure enough ethanol supplies to fulfill a 10% ethanol blend only from indigenous sources is yet again set to fail even before it begins due to the fact that the 2.6 billion liters sought is about 16% higher than the entire production capacity from the country’s sugarcane […]
