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Each weekday, 28,000 subscribers receive the Biofuels Digest newsletter, covering producer news, research, policy, policymakers, conferences, fleets and financial news. It is home to:

• the Biofuels Digest Index™
• the “Transformative Technologies” tournament
• the Quartely Biofuels Business Outlook
• the 30 Hottest Companies in Renewable Chemicals and Materials
• the Advanced Biofuels Project Database
• the “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” annual rankings

Our website

Another 50,000 unique visitors come to our website each month – which houses our complete archive of 10,000+ stories, plus more than 300 free downloads of reports, white papers and databases.

Our conferences

• The Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference (April 3-5, 2012, Washington DC)
• Renewable Chemicals Live! (in partnership with TAPPI, April 2-3, 2012, Washington, DC)
• Biofuels International Canada (in partnership with Horseshoe Media, Calgary, October 3-4, 2011)
• Advanced Biofuels Markets (in partnership with Greenpower Conferences, November, San Francisco)

Who writes the Digest?

Unless credited to another writer, the author of Digest articles is Jim Lane, the Digest’s editor. Jim does not own any shares in renewable energy companies, nor are any fees received for favorable opinion.

Columnists: Mike McAdams (President, ABFA), Bob Dinneen (CEO, RFA), Brent Erickson (Exec VP, BIO), Mary Rosenthal (Executive Director, Algal Biomass Organization), Brooke Coleman (Executive Director, Advanced Ethanol Council)
South Asia editor: Joelle Brink
Senior Editor: Meghan Sapp
Assistant Editors: Thomas Saidak, Isabel Lane
Special correspondents: Sam A. Rushing (CO2), Mackinnon Lawrence (policy), Chet Geschickter (markets), Tim Sklar

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