Growth Energy has announced Emily Skor as CEO, effective May 16. Skor most recently served as the vice president for communications of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association and the executive director of the CHPA Educational Foundation.
Drivers want this fuel, and it doesn't cost an interested retailer an arm and a leg to get the right fueling equipment to sell higher blends of ethanol. That was the theme of the American Coalition for Ethanol's congressional briefing held April 14.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has released the April edition of its Short-Term Energy Outlook, predicting 2016 ethanol production will increase when compared to 2015 levels, averaging 970,000 to 980,000 barrels per day in 2016 and 2017.
Biodiesel tanks are popping up in the tank farms at some ethanol plants these days. This article first appeared in the May issue of EPM.
When America talks about long-range planning that typically means until the next election. For example, the renewable fuels standard (RFS) is in place until 2022. This column appears in the May issue of EPM.
In a recent hearing on USDA Rural Development programs before the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, Iowa Renewable Fuels Association Executive Director Monte Shaw testified in support of renewable fuels programs.
The American Coalition for Ethanol and nearly 70 of its grassroots members are in Washington, D.C., as part of the group's 8th annual fly-in April 13-14. ACE members will have more than 125 meetings with lawmakers representing 36 states.
The Missouri House of Representatives has passed legislation that aims to extend the sunset date on the state's ethanol producer incentive fund from Dec. 31, 2015 to Dec. 31, 2020. The Missouri Senate is now considering the bill.
The CEO and a founding partner of New Energy Investors met with North Dakota state officials April 12 to discuss a $150 million cellulosic ethanol plant the Pennsylvania company is proposing to build in Spiritwood, N.D.
Summer is right around the corner, which means backyard barbecues, beach trips and flip flops. But unfortunately, it also means a restriction on the sale of higher ethanol fuel blends. This column appears in the May issue of EPM.
Gevo Inc. recently announced that ASTM International has now completed its process of approving the revision of ASTM D7566 to include alcohol-to-jet synthetic paraffinic kerosene (ATJ-SPK) derived from renewable isobutanol.
A Swedish research institute released experimental results on the burning behavior of various ethanol blends, conducted as part of the Etankfire project. The project aims to investigate the behavior of large-scale ethanol fires.
Judging by weekly ethanol production through March 2016, 25 million more bushels of corn will be used for making the biofuel in the 2015-2016 corn marketing year than previously was estimated, USDA said in its April World Supply and Demand Estimate.
The renewable fuel standard (RFS) is the most successful energy policy our nation has seen in the last 40 years This column appears in the May issue of EPM.
The week of April 11, Jim Miller, vice president and chief economist of Growth Energy, will join several members of the ethanol industry in traveling to Chinese Taipei to participate in a workshop on ethanol trade development.
CSX Corp. and Norfolk Southern railway announced winners of their respective 2015 chemical safety awards in early April. Several ethanol producers were named among the 78 honored by CSX and the 60 by Norfolk Southern.
The U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change has released provisional energy data for 2015, reporting 1.46 billion liters (386.75 million gallons) of liquid biofuels were consumed in transport last year, down 17.1 percent from 2014.
Two key interest groups and the Governors' Biofuels Coalition called on the U.S. EPA this week to recognize an overwhelming body of new evidence showing fuel ethanol can provide more than 350 million metric tons of carbon reductions annually.
One of the things that makes the American Coalition for Ethanol unique is our work alongside retailers and gas station owners to increase sales of E15 and flex fuels. This column appears in the May issue of EPM.
With an output of 1.8 million head of cattle per year, Alberta is the heart of Canada's beef industry and an area the U.S. Grains Council has identified as a potential growth market for sales of U.S. barley and distillers dried grains with solubles.
On April 7, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad signed legislation establishing a production tax credit for renewable chemicals. Branstad signed the bill at Iowa State University. Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds and several stakeholders were on hand to witness the event.
The FEW, sponsored by Ethanol Producer Magazine and produced by BBI International, will be held in the Wisconsin Center in downtown Milwaukee June 20-23. Nearly 25 percent of the 2,000 expected attendees will be ethanol producers.
On April 6, the American Petroleum Institute unveiled anti-biofuel results from a new Harris Poll. Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Bob Dinneen has criticizing the poll for using opinionated statements to elicit a negative response.
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration recently announced the launch of the web-accessible Transportation Rail Incident Preparedness and Response training resource.
Biofuel number crunchers in the know are finding their jobs easier because of a website hosted by the USDA Economic Research Service that pulls together links to government data from multiple sources on one page.
Process expands potential ethanol capacity by shortening fermentation.
Major gasoline retailers working with Growth Energy have reported that over the past 12 months, using the U.S. average gas mileage of 20 miles-per-gallon, consumers have surpassed 150 million miles using E15 without any negative effects.
On April 4, the U.S. Energy Information Administration announced that it has begun to include new data on ethanol and biodiesel transported by railroads in its Petroleum Supply Monthly report.
The Iowa-based Summit Agricultural Group has broken ground on a 60 MMgy corn ethanol plant in in Lucas do Rio Verde in Mato Grosso, Brazil, together with Fiagril. Plant construction is expected to be completed in mid-June 2017.
The more proactive roles producers take in reducing carbon intensity, the more they will benefit as energy use reduction moves from an incentive to a requirement.
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