Tag: RFS2
Algenol says it may reconsider Florida expansion if governor signs RFS2 repeal
Tweet In Florida, the Naples News is reporting that Algenol may choose to locate its first $400M commercial facility outside of its home state of Florida, if Governor Rick Scott signs a bill repealing the state’s Renewable Fuel Standard. “We have looked at Polk County, Hendry County, Martin County,” Woods told the News. “We have [...]
Dinneen blasts RFS Reform Bill: “Nothing undermines next generation innovation like uncertainty.”
Tweet In Washington, in response to the introduction of the RFS Reform Act, newly introduced legislation sponsored by Representatives Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Jim Costa (D-CA), Steve Womack (R-AR), and Peter Welch (D-VT), US biofuels leaders offered a widely disparate set of responses. ABFA president Michael McAdams said, “Rep. Goodlatte today introduced two bills, the first [...]
A guide to bills aimed at limit, repeal of US Renewable Fuel Standard
Tweet In Washington, Green Car Congress has published a summary of tough times for the US Renewable Fuel Standard, highlighting: an January order in Federal Appeals Court for the EPA to review its cellulosic biofuels requirement; House Bill 875 calling for the suspension of E15 ethanol for 18 months while more testing is carried out; [...]
Can the US still meet its 2022 biofuels targets?
Tweet As cellulosic biofuels technologies start to deploy — critics and friends ask, 36 billion gallons by 2022, can it still be done? Yep, there’s a pathway. In Washington, the US Energy Information Administration released a map and commentary on its website this week — indicating the spread of commercial-scale cellulosic biofuels, while cautioning that [...]
The 2013 Renewable Fuel Standard: Biofuels Digest’s 10-Minute Guide
Tweet The 2013 RFS2 proposed standards are out – what do they mean? Who’s in clover, who’s in trouble? Our 10-Minute Guide details the Volumes, the Issues and the Opportunities. In Washington, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its proposed 2013 Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS2). The proposal will be open for a 45-day public comment period [...]
Top 10 Biofuels Predictions for 2013
Tweet A mere “The Year in Rewind” as we reach the end of 2012? Not the intrepid USS Digest! Instead, we dust off our crystal ball and peer into the murky fogs of 2013. As the sunset of 2012 gives way to the dawn of 2013, here at the Digest we resist the holiday temptation [...]
Cellulosic Biofuels – the plants, the projects, the progress: new AEC report
Tweet The Advanced Ethanol Council (AEC) released a progress report today on the development of the cellulosic biofuels industry. The release comes on the five year anniversary of the signing of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), and on the heels of Secretary Vilsack’s speech on rural innovation and economic opportunity at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The report, for [...]
Court nixes Big Oil challenge to Renewable Fuel Standard
Tweet In Washington, the D.C. Circuit Court nixed a suit by the American Petroleum Institute against the Environmental Protection Agency over the agency’s 2010 revision to the Renewable Fuel Standard. In addressing the API’s suit, over the EPA’s mandate that obligated parties pay fines for not blending cellulosic biofuels when no cellulosic biofuels to buy [...]
EPA denies appeal to waive US Renewable Fuels Standard
Tweet The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the agency has not found evidence to support a finding of severe “economic harm” that would warrant granting a waiver of the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS). The decision is based on economic analyses and modeling done in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and [...]
Open up the RFS, says Ethanol Across America white paper
Tweet KATZEN International chief says generation 1.5 ethanol is the key path to reaching RFS2 targets – with new feedstocks, advanced fermentation plants. Phil Madson, President of KATZEN International, has authored a new Ethanol Across America White Paper that makes a compelling case for removing barriers to the production of Advanced Biofuels by allowing a [...]
