Search Results for 'reg'

South Dakota Landowner Bill of Rights supports landowner rights while providing regulatory certainty for CO2 pipelines

South Dakota Landowner Bill of Rights supports landowner rights while providing regulatory certainty for CO2 pipelines

March 7, 2024 |

In South Dakota, the South Dakota legislature passed a Landowner Bill of Rights on Wednesday that enhances landowner protections while providing regulatory certainty for CO2 pipeline projects. Iowa Renewable Fuels Association (IRFA) Executive Director Monte Shaw made the following statement: “Both sides came together in South Dakota to find an equitable path forward for carbon […]

Read More

Chevron-REG mothballs indefinitely two biodiesel plants

Chevron-REG mothballs indefinitely two biodiesel plants

March 4, 2024 |

In Iowa, the Des Moines Register newspaper reports Chevron Renewable Energy Group is mothballing indefinitely its biodiesel production facilities in Western Iowa and Wisconsin, saying that the Biden Administration’s policies have created market conditions that keep the plants from being viable. The Environmental Protection Agency set the biodiesel blending mandates about 1 billion gallons below […]

Read More

VARO Energy and Orim Energy team up to supply biofuels to the ARA region

VARO Energy and Orim Energy team up to supply biofuels to the ARA region

February 21, 2024 |

In the Netherlands, VARO Energy and Orim Energy are partnering to provide shipping customers in the Port of Rotterdam – and wider Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) region – with biofuels. The agreement supports the decarbonization of maritime transportation and inland shipping in Northern Europe. It also contributes to the wider targets set by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) […]

Read More

NRCS approves $25M in ACE’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program

NRCS approves $25M in ACE’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program

February 15, 2024 |

In Washington, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) recently approved a $25 million investment in the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE)-led Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) expansion that builds on the successful South Dakota-based project announced in 2021 to unlock corn ethanol access to clean fuel markets and new […]

Read More

ePure launches legal challege against EU’s Refuel EU Aviation Regulation

ePure launches legal challege against EU’s Refuel EU Aviation Regulation

February 14, 2024 |

In Belgium, European renewable ethanol producers have launched a new legal challenge, now directed to the EU’s RefuelEU Aviation Regulation, charging that it improperly excludes crop-based biofuels from the effort to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from air transport. It’s the second legal challenge from the EU renewable ethanol industry to be raised in recent months alleging […]

Read More

Qair and Airbus join forces to advance SAF in Occitania region

Qair and Airbus join forces to advance SAF in Occitania region

February 7, 2024 |

In France, Qair, an independent renewable energy company, and Airbus, announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding to jointly structure the sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) sector in the French Occitanie region. The partnership aims at identifying commercial opportunities and share techno-economic data to develop a sustainable aviation fuel (e-SAF) production facility. The partners commit […]

Read More

ePure sues European Commission over FuelEU Maritime Regulation for ignoring crop-based biofuels

ePure sues European Commission over FuelEU Maritime Regulation for ignoring crop-based biofuels

January 31, 2024 |

In Belgium, European renewable ethanol producers have launched a legal challenge to the EU’s FuelEU Maritime Regulation on the grounds that it fails to properly recognize the proven benefits of sustainable crop-based biofuels and has therefore violated several key EU legislative procedures. Companies representing nearly all of the EU’s production of renewable ethanol are seeking […]

Read More

Hydrogen rising: IRS Releases Proposed Regulation to Section 45V of Internal Revenue Code

Hydrogen rising: IRS Releases Proposed Regulation to Section 45V of Internal Revenue Code

January 30, 2024 |

By John R. Kirkwood, Virginia M. Speck, Joshua L. Andrews, Aaron L. Szabo, Jason Deppen, Bryan Michael Allen Special to The Digest In connection with the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), on December 22, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released a Proposed Regulation related to Section 45V of the Internal Revenue Code. The Proposed Regulation, […]

Read More

Jordan aims to become regional hub for green hydrogen

Jordan aims to become regional hub for green hydrogen

January 11, 2024 |

In the UK, Arab News reported that Jordan’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources aims to establish the country as a regional hub for the production and export of green hydrogen. According to the report, a blueprint for the country’s green hydrogen strategy, in which attracting investment for production facilities is considered key, has been […]

Read More

Washington State to launch rulemaking to add SAF provisions Into CFS regulations

Washington State to launch rulemaking to add SAF provisions Into CFS regulations

January 10, 2024 |

The Washington Department of Ecology has published a notice announcing plans to update the state’s clean fuels program regulations to align with legislation signed into law last year that aims to promote the production and use of sustainable aviation fuel. The bill, SB 5447, was signed by Governor Jay Inslee in May 2023. The legislation […]

Read More