Carbon Capture Magazine's National Carbon Capture Conference & Expo will be held in Des Moines, Iowa at the Iowa Event Center on Nov. 8-9, 2022. Speaker presentation abstracts are being accepted through July 8.
Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on April 7 introduced legislation that aims to improve data reporting for renewable diesel and SAF, incentivize their production, and eliminate unnecessary labeling regulations.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration maintained its 2022 and 2023 forecasts for fuel ethanol production in its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook, released April 12. The forecasts for fuel ethanol blending were also unchanged.
U.S. fuel ethanol production fell by approximately 1 percent the week ending April 8, according to data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration on April 13. Fuel ethanol stocks were down more than 4 percent.
On April 12, Clean Fuels Alliance America applauded President Biden's announcements of new Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program grants and a pathway to use canola oil to produce renewable diesel and jet fuel.
President Joe Biden on April 12 announced that his administration will reinstate the ability to sell E15 this summer in an effort to reduce high fuel prices via a national emergency waiver that will be issued by the U.S. EPA.
Green Plains Inc. has released its 2021 Sustainability Report, outlining ESG priorities, progress and targets. In part, the report highlights progress towards the company's committment to carbon neutrality in operational emissions by 2050.
On April 12, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced steps the USDA is taking to implement President Biden's plan to enable energy independence by boosting homegrown biofuels, including HBIIP grants and SAF initiatives.
President Joe Biden on April 12 visited Poet's 150 MMgy ethanol plant in Menlo, Iowa, to discuss the U.S. EPA's plan to issue an emergency waiver allowing E15 to be sold through the summer 2022 driving season.
Following the signing of the supply contract at the end of 2021, SAF produced at OMV's Schwechat refinery was delivered in March 2022 to the Vienna International Airport for fueling Austrian Airlines' aircraft.
Neste, Altens and TRAPIL have collaborated to enable the first-ever transport of renewable diesel by a pipeline in Europe. With a pipeline transport, the GHG emissions were reduced by 92 percent compared to conventional logistics by tanker trucks.
The U.S. EPA on April 12 published a proposed rule approve Renewable Fuel Standard pathways for renewable diesel, jet fuel, heating oil, naphtha, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) produced from canola/rapeseed oil via a hydrotreating process.
On April 12, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced steps the USDA is taking to implement President Biden's plan to enable energy independence by boosting homegrown biofuels, including HBIIP grants and SAF initiatives.
Scientists with the Center for Bioenergy Innovation at ORNL say scientific advances support a hybrid approach using biological and catalytic methods for producing cellulosic biofuel for use in airplanes, ships and long-haul trucks.
Growth Energy on April 8 sent a letter to the Surface Transportation Board calling on the agency to address significant rail service delays that are impacting the biofuels supply chain and have caused some ethanol plants to curtail production.
The STB on April 7 announced it will hold a public hearing on April 26-27 focused on recent rail service problems and recovery efforts involving several Class I carriers. Ethanol producers are among the groups currently impacted by rail delays.
A new campaign by the Renewable Fuels Association encourages consumers to call on their elected officials for immediate action to allow the continued sale of E15—the lowest-cost, lowest-carbon fuel available at the pump—throughout the summer.
Tidewater Renewables Ltd. has entered a strategic RNG and feedstock partnership with Rimrock RNG Inc., and Rimrock Cattle Company Ltd. The partnership will secure feedstock supply for the company's RNG and renewable diesel business units.
Homeland Energy Solutions has produced its 2 billionth gallon of ethanol. The Lawler, Iowa-based facility began operations on April 4, 2009, as a 100 MMgy plant and later expanded operations to its current 200 MMgy of capacity.
The USDA's NASS will hold its biannual Data Users' Meeting on April 19, 2022. During the event, the agency will share recent and pending statistical program changes with the public, and to solicit input on these and other programs.
Aemetis Inc. announced that its Aemetis Biogas subsidiary has successfully completed testing of the $12 million dairy biogas-to-RNG upgrading and compression facility for the Aemetis Biogas Dairy Digester Project in California.
UNICA, the Brazilian sugarcane industry association, has reported that current levels of ethanol stocks are sufficient to meet domestic demand through the beginning of next sugarcane harvest season, which began April 1.
USDA Rural Development Under Secretary Xochitl Torres Small on April 6 confirmed the agency expects to distribute $700 million in COVID-19 relief funds for biofuel soon and said a new funding round for the HBIIP will open this spring.
U.S. EPA Administrator Michael Regan confirmed the agency is currently evaluating what flexibilities it has to allow E15 sales during the summer driving season during an April 6 hearing held by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
The EPA has denied the 36 SREs petitions for compliance year 2018 that were remanded by a recent court ruling. The 31 small refineries whose previously approved SREs were overturned will not need purchase or redeem additional RINs to meet 2018 RVOs.
The USDA's NASS will hold its biannual Data Users' Meeting on April 19, 2022. During the event, the agency will share recent and pending statistical program changes with the public, and to solicit input on these and other programs.
USDA Rural Development Under Secretary Xochitl Torres Small on April 6 confirmed the agency expects to distribute $700 million in COVID-19 relief funds for biofuel soon and said a new funding round for the HBIIP will open this spring.
The EPA has denied the 36 SREs petitions for compliance year 2018 that were remanded by a recent court ruling. The 31 small refineries whose previously approved SREs were overturned will not need purchase or redeem additional RINs to meet 2018 RVOs.
Summit Carbon Solutions has announced an additional investment from Tiger Infrastructure Partners, an original founding investor of Summit Carbon Solutions and a member of its board of directors, bringing Tiger's total commitment to $100 million.
Sales of E15 hit a record 814 million gallons in 2021, according to a new analysis from the RFA. The 2021 volume represented a 62 percent increase over the prior year and was nearly double pre-pandemic sales volumes in 2019.
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