Panic reported at the National Biodiesel Conference over EPA implementation of the biodiesel mandate
In Texas, Biofuels Digest columnist Will Thurmond, covering the National Biodiesel Conference, reports that “EPA’s half-baked, not ready for prime time beta version of RFS2 report to NBB on RIN tracking system,” used for tracking the re-implemented biodiesel mandate, promoted “mass confusion, outrage, and widespread panic by NBB members” at a conference session which covered [...]
Chicken Little, Corn Little, Jatropha Little: Is the sky really falling (or is that jatropha floating in space?)
In the children’s fable Chicken Little, a farmyard is brought to a state of mass hysteria based on a bad extrapolation from insufficient data. In short, an acorn fell on Chicken Little’s head and the poor thing concluded that the sky was falling in. A wily predator named Foxy Loxy offers a series of consulting [...]
Advanced biofuels planned capacity to reach 1.38 billion gallons by 2013
In Florida, based on new commercial-scale, demonstration and pilot project announcements, global advanced biofuels planned capacity will increase to 1.38 billion gallons in 2013, up from 6.71 million in 2009 capacity, according to the Biofuels Digest advanced biofuels tracking database.
The Digest’s free, downloadable Advanced Biofuels project list includes annual capacity by company for 2009-13, and [...]
What next? Biofuels Industry leaders contemplate future moves, after Obama shift in biofuels policy
In Washington, the Biotechnology Industry Organization followed up on a shift in US biofuels policy with a call for four new steps it said would increase the pace of biofuels commercialization.
BIO called for:
• Revising the risk assessment process for advanced biofuels projects in the current Department of Energy loan guarantee program;
• Double funding for U.S. [...]
