In Minnesota, the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (MSGA) has joined the Minnesota Service Station & Convenience Store Association and NACS, Clean Fuels Development Coalition, and ICM Inc., in filing a lawsuit against the state of Minnesota for its adoption of California’s “zero-emission vehicle” mandate. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District […]
In India, Mint reported that the Indian government has invited expressions of interest (EoIs) for developing hydrogen valley innovation clusters (HVIC) in the country. The Department of Science and Technology’s guidelines define a hydrogen valley as a specific geographic region where hydrogen serves more than one end-sector or application in mobility, industry, and energy. This […]
In the Netherlands, Dutch airline KLM told the District Court of Amsterdam that it would scrap its advertising campaign telling customers to ‘Fly Responsibly’, after a lawsuit accused the company of greenwashing. The ad campaign was targeted by legal action brought by Dutch campaigners Fossielvrij, challenging the legality of the airline’s advertising under EU consumer […]
In Italy, the Italian government has decided to introduce a mandate for increasing the use of unblended, i.e. “neat”, biofuels to further accelerate greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reductions in the transport sector. While the use of such renewable fuels is not new in Italy, their use as neat, i.e. without being blended with fossil fuels, […]
In Washington, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and a bipartisan group of 14 colleagues urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to strengthen the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). Specifically, the senators are calling on EPA to maintain the blending requirements for 2023, deny all pending Small Refinery Exemptions (SREs), eliminate proposed retroactive cuts […]
In Washington, Congresswomen Ashley Hinson (R-IA-02) and Angie Craig (D-MN-02) led 35 of their colleagues in a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Regan expressing concern over the EPA’s proposed Renewable Volume Obligations (RVOs) for advanced biofuels, and urging him to increase blending targets for advanced biofuels like biomass-based diesel. “We are concerned that the […]
In India, The Sentinel reported that the country’s Prime Minister Narandra Modi will inaugurate a methanol plant in Assam on April 14. The plant, dubbed ‘Assam Petro-Chemicals Limited’, has a capacity of 500 tons per day of methanol. This project is a joint venture of the Government of Assam and Oil India Limited. Assam state […]
In India, the Indian Express newspaper reports that in line with the finance minister’s 2023/24 budget speech made on February 1 that said the government would support setting up 500 urban biogas plants around the country, with 75 already on deck for this year, the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry has already approved 42 […]
In Washington, the Renewable Fuels Association says that by blatantly tipping the scales in favor of battery electric vehicles, the proposed tailpipe emissions standards for 2027 and beyond released Wednesday by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) overlook an obvious near-term opportunity to achieve significant vehicle efficiency improvements and carbon emissions reductions through increased use of high-octane, low-carbon […]
In Washington, Growth Energy filed its opening brief Tuesday in its challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) failure to enforce compliance under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). In Growth Energy v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Growth Energy argues against EPA’s decisions to allow refiners not to comply with their RFS obligations even though […]
