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November 24, 2015
BY Jason Sagebiel, INTL FCStone
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In late August, representatives from the U.S. Grains Council and the U.S. ethanol industry embarked on an exploratory mission to China, aimed at gaining critical insights into the country’s ethanol market and policy landscape.
The Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) Biofuture Platform Initiative has unveiled a new Global Biomass Resource Assessment, providing groundbreaking data on current and future sustainable biomass supplies around the world.
BASF on Sept. 30 announced the launch of xarvio BIOENERGY, an innovative low carbon intensity crops program that lowers, tracks and documents CI levels in corn grown for ethanol biofuel production in the U.S.
CARB has published additional proposed changes to its pending LCFS modifications, including those that aims to use of sunflower oil feedstock for biomass-based diesel production, and update regulations related to corn stover and biomethane.
In testimony delivered Oct. 1 at a USDA public consultation on climate-smart agriculture and biofuel feedstocks, RFA President and CEO Geoff Cooper urged federal agencies embrace book-and-claim supply chain management approaches.