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US DOE, EPA release 2010 Fuel Economy Guide
In Washington, the EPA and DOE released the the 2010 Fuel Economy Guide, which gives consumers important information about estimated fuel costs and mileage standards for model year 2010 vehicles. Each vehicle listing in the Fuel Economy Guide provides an estimated annual fuel cost.
The estimate is calculated based on the vehicle’s miles per gallon (mpg) [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “EPA’s framework for categorizing biofuel production technologies is too inflexible.”
Brent Erickson, executive vice president of BIO’s Industrial & Environmental Section: “EPA’s framework for categorizing biofuel production technologies is too inflexible. A better approach would be to allow biofuel producers to estimate the carbon footprint for their plant based on specific data plugged into a flexible, technology neutral analysis tool that can account for future [...]
NREL, EPA produce valuable State Energy Primer: free download
In Colorado, NREL has partnered with EPA to produce a “State Bioenergy Primer: Information and Resources for States on Issues, Opportunities, and Options for Advancing Bioenergy”. The primer is designed to bring together information on multiple feedstocks for multiple uses – bioheat, biopower, biofuels, and bioproducts – into a booklet that is neither too technical [...]
EPA to launch new, comprehensive greenhouse gas reporting system
In Washington, the EPA announced that in January 1 it will require large emitters of heat-trapping emissions to begin collecting greenhouse gas data under a new reporting system. This new program will cover approximately 85 percent of the nation’s GHG emissions and apply to roughly 10,000 facilities. EPA’s new reporting system will provide a better [...]
National Biodiesel Board submits final comments on Renewable Fuel Standard rules to EPA
In Washington, the National Biodiesel Board submitted its formal comments to the EPA regarding the expanded Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2). RFS2 requires the use of 500 million gallons of Biomass-based diesel in 2009, increasing gradually to 1 billion gallons in 2012. From 2012 through 2022, a minimum of 1 billion gallons must be used domestically, [...]
Murkowski attempts to derail EPA regulation of CO2 as flurry of amendments hit agency appropriations bill
In Washington, Senator Murkowski of Alaska has proposed an amendment to the 2010 Interior and environment appropriations bill that would that would prevent the EPA from regulating carbon dioxide at power plants and industrial facilities. The move, which would allow EPA to continue to regulate CO2 emissions from mobile sources, such as cars, was widely [...]
EPA official “who never visited a US farm” to join Sen Grassley in farm, biodiesel plant tour
In Iowa, EPA officials Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator of the Office of Air and Radiation, and Margo Oge, director of the Office of Transportation and Air Quality, will come to Iowa for a first-hand look at family farming.
The visit to Iowa by the EPA was prompted by an article in Biofuels Digest last May, in [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “Pop goes the ILUC Weasel. Guess where the weasels popped up this time?”
Thomas J. Pyle in the Washington Times: “The federal government would seize control of our energy use, rationing it to ensure it is both more expensive and less plentiful…this efficiency would require Americans to reduce their energy use by nearly 85 percent by 2050. On a per capita basis, that means each American would use [...]
Today in Biofuels OPinion: “EPA has asked the foxes to guard the hen house.”
Bob Dineen, CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association: “EPA has asked the foxes to guard the hen house on this issue. By adding lawyers and advocates to a scientific review panel, EPA bureaucrats have made a mockery of the Administration’s commitment to sound science. These reviews absolutely cannot be viewed as objective or unbiased. Many [...]
EPA publishes results of peer review of indirect land use change
In Washington, the peer review of the renewable fuel standards lifecycle analysis – prominently, the analysis of international indirect land use change – is now available online from the EPA. The Renewable Fuels Association has (see “Today in Biofuels Opinion”) criticized the selection of peer reviewers.
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