In Malaysia, following weeks of speculation, Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok announced a major reduction in the country’s export duty on crude palm oil (CPO) as of January 1, 2013. It is expected that Malaysia’s export duty on CPO will be allowed to fluctuate monthly according to global prices, from 4.5% […]
In Washington, The Hill recently featured an article slamming the RFS, written by biofuels policy campaigner Michal Rosenoer of Friends of the Earth. The article criticized the recent post by BIO’s CEO James Greenwood, and claimed that the RFS monopolizes 40% of the US corn crop. Rosenoer went on to argue that Congress needs to […]
In Iowa, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney confirmed his support for the Renewable Fuels Standard. In his Agricultural Prosperity white paper announced during a campaign stop in Van Meter it was confirmed that Romney recognizes the important role of biofuels in securing America’s energy independence and sees the RFS as a guarantee of market access […]
In Washington, “Any waiver of the RFS would have little to no effect on corn prices, but would certainly harm biofuel producers and biotechnology companies across the United States,” the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) said today in official comments to the Environmental Protection Agency on the requests by governors of several states for a waiver […]
In California, the California Advanced Energy Coalition (CAEC) is urging the California Air Resources Board (CARB) reduce California gasoline prices by increasing blending from E10 to E15. The EPA recently approved the use of E15 for vehicles built since 2001 and ethanol is currently selling for $1.00 per gallon below the price of gasoline. The […]
In California, following supply shortages and record high gasoline prices, Governor Jerry Brown has ordered the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to transition immediately to the easier-to-make, winter-grade gasoline as soon as possible. This transition could increase supply by up to 10% and ethanol blended in gasoline acts as a gas line anti-freeze in winter. […]
In the Chicago Tribune, Tom Buis, CEO of Growth Energy, published an an op-ed rebuffing a recent editorial “A crop shortage should provoke policy changes. Are you listening, Congress?”. Buis argued that the alarmist attitude promoted by the article was all hype, and that the claims were “unrealistic and inaccurate.” He also indicated that the […]
In Washington, the Natural Resources Defense Council posted two blogs from NRDC Action Fund Director Heather Taylor-Miesle and NRDC Action Fund senior advisor David Goldston on the Obama-Romney presidential debate held Wednesday night at the University of Denver. Romney gets the energy facts wrong,” says Taylor-Miesle, adding “On energy issues alone, he not only distorted […]
In Washington, D.C., the American Coalition for Ethanol sent a two-question survey to several U.S. Senate or House of Representative candidates in Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota. The survey asked candidates whether they supported the renewable fuel standard and any potential future cellulosic biofuel tax incentives. ACE reported survey results as […]
In California, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has approved a motion to ask federal and state legislators to update the state’s trash conversion technologies. The motion seeks to support legislation that will bolster development of technologies to convert L.A. County’s 8 million tons of annual landfill waste into energy. Similar technologies already exist […]
