In Indiana, Brightmark’s Ashley, Indiana Plastics Renewal Facility has been ISCC PLUS (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) certified. When fully operational, Brightmark’s Ashley plastics renewal facility, now in pilot phase, will divert 100,000 tons of plastic waste each year from landfills and incinerators and convert it into 18 million gallons of ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel […]
In Texas, Lummus Technology’s Green Circle and Chevron Lummus Global are integrating multiple technologies from their portfolios for application in the circular economy. The partners will use a combination of the Lummus New Hope Energy plastic pyrolysis technology, CLG’s ISOCONVERSION technology and Lummus’ steam cracking technology to provide operators the ability to produce steam cracker […]
In Washington, D.C., ethanol production expanded by 8,000 barrels per day (b/d), or 0.8%, to 1.059 million b/d, equivalent to 44.48 million gallons daily, according to EIA data analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association. Production was 13.4% above the same week last year, which was affected by the pandemic but 0.7% less than the same […]
In Kenya, Team KOKO has celebrated the company’s latest sales milestone, with more than 300,000 household subscribers on our clean fuel and carbon platform in Kenya. KOKO Fuel was launched to the market in late 2019 and has battled major supply-side and market disruptions since the outbreak of COVID-19. Despite this, we are on track […]
In South Dakota, a 40 percent increase in biofuel production capacity, an on-site solar farm and a company roadmap to net carbon neutrality highlighted a year focused on sustainability for POET, the world’s largest biofuel producer. “Every person, every business has a responsibility to keep moving our world toward sustainability,” POET Founder & CEO Jeff […]
In Brazil, Platts reports that high sugar prices are likely to keep mills focused on sugar production rather than ethanol in 2022, leading to continued high ethanol prices. As usual, the first part of the crush that officially kicks off in April will likely see more ethanol than sugar production, but Platts estimates 46.2% of […]
In Arkansas, JD Supra reports the state’s Department of Environmental Quality as fined Solfuels $4,500 for three violations of its air permit during the compliance period of September 1, 2017, through January 31, 2021 following inspections in early March. That is despite the fact the facility was shut between November 28, 2019, through January 28, […]
In Nebraska, DTN reports Archer Daniels Midland wants the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska to throw out Green Plains’ suit against it that claims ethanol price manipulation. Green Plains filed the suit in October after the U.S. District Court for the District of Central Illinois dismissed a similar suit in August, saying […]
In California, the Christian Science Monitor reports that SB 1382, passed in 2016, comes into effect on January 1 that requires cities and counties to not only divert organic waste from landfills but that it must be used for composting or bioenergy production. The law also requires those government entities to then use that energy […]
In Texas, Darling Ingredients Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the shares of Valley Proteins, Inc. for approximately $1.1 billion in cash. Valley Proteins operates 18 major rendering and used cooking oil facilities throughout the southern, southeast and mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. Valley employs 1,900 employees and operates a […]
