United Biofuels close to setting up NYC’s first commercial biodiesel facility

In New York state, United Biofuels has applied to the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation to convert an existing fuel-storage facility in Greenpoint into New York City’s first commercial scale biodiesel production facility, using used cooking oil as feedstock. The company purchased the facility from Metro Fuel Oil while it was in bankruptcy and not able to complete the biodiesel conversion itself.