In New Jersey, the state’s General Assembly has approved a bill to allow biofuel production from used cooking oil, fats and plants, and now awaits the governor’s signature to come into law. The Senate already approved the bill in March. Previously biobased liquid fuel, biodiesel fuel, heating oil, renewable biomass, and renewable diesel fuel were […]
In Washington, Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Representatives Ted Poe (R-TX) and Mike Thompson (D-CA) for reintroducing the Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act of 2015 (S.1656 and H.R.2883). This bill “levels the playing field” according to its sponsors, “by giving investors in renewable energy projects access to a decades-old corporate structure […]
In Oregon, the state’s planned Low Carbon Fuel Standard has been nixed by a single Republican vote that keeps the Democratic-lead houses from making tax reform decisions, so the governor and a group of eight state legislators have negotiated a 4 cent rise in the gas tax to fund electric vehicle charging infrastructure and natural […]
In Washington, U.S. Representatives Mike Thompson (D-CA-05) and Ted Poe (R-TX-02), and Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) re-introduced bipartisan legislation to level the energy playing field by giving investors in renewable energy projects access to a decades-old corporate structure whose tax advantage is currently available only to investors in fossil fuel-based energy […]
In Brazil, the country’s president signed into law last Friday a bill that includes a 11.25% import tariff on ethanol imports in an effort to protect the country’s ethanol industry and will work to close the arbitrage window of US ethanol exports into the country. Ethanol imports during 2015 coming from the US reached 357 […]
In Argentina, the government cut the biodiesel export tax for May by more than a quarter to 9.8%, down from the startling 13.2% it set for April. The April export tax was nearly triple the average seen in previous months, with May’s still nearly double what was experienced through much of the past year. The […]
In Washington, the House Appropriations Committee’s Fiscal Year 2016 Agriculture Appropriations Bill would reduce mandatory spending levels for important Energy Title programs, including the Renewable Energy for America Program, Biomass Crop Assistance Program, and the Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Program (Section 9003). The Agriculture Energy Coalition vowed to fight the changes […]
In Washington, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s regulatory affairs subcommittee is looking at how the RFS can be reformed or repealed after repeated attempts to balance policy with supply availabilities. EPA assistant administrator Janet McCabe testified in front of the committee Thursday in what some see as a win for the anti-RFS […]
In Washington, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R. La.) has introduced a bill that would completely repeal the RFS. He uses the food vs fuel argument and higher prices at the pump due to ethanol as his main arguments for the bill. American Energy Alliance, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, American Sportfishing Association, Milk Producers Council and […]
In Washington, following an announcement by USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack on May 29, the Commodity Credit Corporation announced June 12 that all 50 states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., may now apply for up to $100 million in grants under the Biofuels Infrastructure Partnership. The funding is to support the infrastructure needed to […]
