Given the challenge that countries face in transitioning off carbon intensive technologies, now is the time for world leaders to acknowledge the enormous potential of biofuels, writes Bliss Baker. This column appears in the February issue of EPM.
Second-generation biofuel crops like the perennial grasses Miscanthus and switchgrass can efficiently meet emission reduction goals without significantly displacing cropland used for food production, according to a new study.
UNICA, the Brazilian sugarcane industry association, has announced that with the harvest season almost finished, the sugarcane crush in the south-central region reached approximately 594.08 million tons at the end of December.
OSHA penalties are increasing for the first time since 1990 and employers need to be aware and more cautious than in the past, writes Brent Soderstrum. This column appears in the February issue of EPM.
For eight years, Joule has been working under the radar to develop and commercialize its CO2-to-fuel technology. This story appears in the February issue of EPM with the headline 'Industrializing photosynthesis.'
American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers has announced it has filed a motion to intervene in the recent lawsuit brought by members of the ethanol industry against the U.S. EPA regarding its recent renewable fuel standard (RFS) rulemaking.
The big news is that the Chinese government did decide to proceed with their anti-dumping case vs. U.S. ethanol producers. The only good news is that it is a now known fact, with a more definitive timeline.
Scientists from Rice University, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Joint BioEnergy Institute have discovered how two bacterial enzymes work as a team to break apart lignin.
The BioAg Alliance, Novozymes' and Monsanto's collaboration to improve crop harvests through naturally-occurring microbes, recently announced results from its 2015 field trial program. Those results included a corn inoculant product.
The U.S. EPA's vehicle emissions modeling system is inadequate and unreliable as a tool for estimating the exhaust emissions of gasoline blends containing more than 10 percent ethanol, according to a new comprehensive third-party evaluation.
The Renewable Fuels Association has submitted two comments to the U.S. Department of Energy in response to a request by the Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy for information on Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines (Optima).
The U.S. Grains Council has issued a statement following the announcement by China's Ministry of Commerce that it has initiated anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations of U.S. distillers dried grains with solubles exported to China.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has published the January edition of its Short-Term Energy Outlook, predicting ethanol production will average 970,000 barrels per day in both 2016 and 2017.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, and former Iowa Governor, Tom Vilsack will provide a unique perspective on the USDA's commitment to renewable fuels at the 10th Annual Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit on Jan. 19 in Altoona, Iowa.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon will serve as the 2016 chairman of the Governors' Biofuels Coalition. Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts will serve as vice-chair. The 33-state bipartisan organization was founded more than 20 years ago.
Soft corn markets should be strengthened some by USDA lowering its national average yield by 0.9 bushels to 168.4 bushels per acres. That brings the USDA estimates for 2015-'16 corn production down by 53 million bushels.
BBI International announced the agenda for the technical sessions of the 9th annual International Biomass Conference & Expo, North America's largest and fastest growing biomass conference, taking place April 11-14 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
For the last two years, I've been writing one blog a week, with a few breaks for maternity leave, vacation and other reasons. Today I decided to reflect back on what I've gotten out of the experience.
Global Bioenergies and LanzaTech announce the signature of a new collaboration agreement to broaden the feedstock flexibility of Global Bioenergies' Isobutene process and the product-portfolio of LanzaTech's carbon capture technology.
Last year automakers sold a record 17.47 million vehicles in the United States, with a majority explicitly approved by the manufacturer to use E15, according to statistics from Autodata and an analysis by the Renewable Fuels Association.
With a Jan. 31 deadline approaching, the California Air Resources Board released an FAQ to answer frequently asked questions about the changes to the state's Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
On Jan. 8, seven agricultural and biofuel groups filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia asking the court to review the U.S. EPA's final rule setting 2014-'16 obligations under the renewable fuel standard (RFS).
Solenis LLC, through its Brazilian subsidiary, recently completed the acquisition of 100 percent of the shares of Quimatec Produtos QuÃmicos Ltda, a Brazilian manufacturer of specialty chemicals for the sugar and ethanol processing industry.
On Jan. 4, the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service published the January edition of its Grain Crushing and Coproducts Production report, showing total corn consumed for alcohol and other uses was 484.5 million bushels in November.
Green Plains Partners LP recently announced that it has acquired the storage and transportation assets of the Hopewell, Virginia, and Hereford, Texas, ethanol production facilities from Green Plains Inc. for $62.5 million.
California Ethanol & Power LLC (CE+P) recently announced the certification of the carbon intensity (CI) pathway for its anticipated sugarcane and sweet sorghum ethanol by the California's Air Resources Board.
Net profits in the first half of 2015 held up surprisingly well, writes University of Illinois economist Scott Irwin, and, at 10 cents per gallon, were more than twice the average net profit of 4 cents per gallon from 2007-'12.
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds will discuss Iowa's leadership in the production and use of homegrown biofuels at the 10th Annual Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit on Jan. 19 in Altoona, Iowa.
In mid-December, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who is seeking the democratic presidential nomination, introduced legislation that aims to enact long-term extensions of several clean energy tax credits that benefit the bioenergy and biofuel sectors.
Representatives of the ethanol industry are speaking out to criticize comments on the renewable fuel standard (RFS) made by American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Jack Gerard during a recent speech.
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