In Washington, use of science-based, consistent and transparent lifecycle analysis methods will be crucially important in implementing the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) tax credit under the Inflation Reduction Act, the Renewable Fuels Association said in comments submitted last Friday to the Department of Treasury. RFA’s comments were in response to a request for comments from the Treasury […]
In Iowa, Radio Iowa reports a bill backed by the state’s Farm Bureau but opposed by the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association that has passed a state house subcommittee would require landowners along 90% of the proposed CO2 pipelines to voluntarily grant permission before land surveyors could enter their property. The IFB says that land rights […]
In Washington, in a comment letter submitted last week to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Growth Energy urged the agency to rely on the most accurate and up-to-date lifecycle analysis (LCA) approaches in order to make the most of the 40B and 45Z tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and to help the […]
In Washington, Reuters reports that Mike Lee, a US senator from Utah, is attempting to bring together other Senators to fight the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempts to include electric vehicles in the Renewable Fuels Standard. Reuters has discovered that the proposed letter that the Senator is shopping around was partially penned by a lobbyist for […]
In Ireland, Minister for Agriculture, Food, and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, and Minister of State with special responsibility for research and innovation, Martin Heydon, announced a $3.2 million investment in an integrated anaerobic digestion and green biorefining demonstration initiative. The funding has been jointly awarded to University College Dublin (UCD) and Munster Technological University (MTU) […]
In Finland, the European Commission has published its review of the CO2 emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles calling for a 90% reduction of emissions by 2040. Neste welcomes policy actions that will reduce emissions from road transport in Europe, and continues to make significant investments in renewable transport fuels to support the European Union’s net-zero […]
In Iowa, Iowa’s Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig submitted comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding its proposed rulemaking and volume obligations for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) for 2023, 2024 and 2025. Iowa is the undisputed national leader in biofuels production, with 42 ethanol biorefineries and 11 biodiesel facilities producing 4.5 billion […]
In Washington, national advocacy group Food & Water Watch has filed comments opposing a proposed EPA rule that would continue its reliance on ethanol and increase requirements for factory farm gas in the federal Renewable Fuel Standard program (RFS), arguing that the move would have negative impacts on the climate and environmental justice communities. Designed […]
In Canada, the Western Producer magazine reports that Canadian canola growers are concerned about Germany’s move to ban crop-based biofuels by 2030. The European Union is Canada’s second-largest canola importer, coming in just behind China. The imported 2.52 million metric tons of Canadian canola in 2020. Germany is the EU’s largest biodiesel producer, so eliminating […]
In Argentina, local newspaper Ambito reported that the country’s Secretariat for Strategic Affairs officially established the so-called ‘Intersectoral Hydrogen Table’, with the goal of deepening the dialogue between the different areas of the public and private sectors to advance in the design of a national strategy for the development of the hydrogen sector. “The energy […]
