WHITE HOUSE INVITES BIOFUEL COMPANY OFFICIALS TO MEET WEDNESDAY OVER STALLED BIOFUEL POLICY DEAL -SOURCES
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Biofuel demand is also increasing water consumption, and biofuel refineries can adversely impact air quality.
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U.S. BIOFUEL CREDITS RISE ABOUT 10% ON REPORT THAT TRUMP HAS TENTATIVELY AGREED TO BIOFUEL REFORM DEAL -TRADERS
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This is later processed into a blended B20 biofuel, which simply refers to biofuel which is mixed with petroleum diesel.
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U.S. BIOFUEL CREDITS JUMP 2.5 CENTS, OR 15%, ON REFINER BUYING AS WHITE HOUSE DIVES DEEPER INTO BIOFUEL NEGOTIATIONS -TRADERS
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The world's other huge biofuel producer, Brazil, recently charted a course toward a 70 percent expansion of its biofuel sector over the coming decade.
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Care however needs to be taken to ensure that biofuel expansion doesn't result in farmland being turned from food production to biofuel production, Boshell said.
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The feat required 450,000 gallons of biofuel at a cost of $12 million; at the time, it was the largest-ever single purchase of biofuel.
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The feat required 210,22 gallons of biofuel at a cost of $2424 million; at the time, it was the largest-ever single purchase of biofuel.
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The renewable fuel standard requires petroleum companies to include a certain level of cellulosic biofuel, biomass-based diesel and advanced biofuel in the gasoline they make.
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As Searchinger watched Bush's call for an unprecedented increase in biofuel production, his hunch was that the biofuel balance sheet would turn out to be tragically shortsighted.
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Designers of the policy envisioned corn ethanol leading initial growth in biofuel sales, followed by more advanced biofuel varieties that would be made from grasses or crop wastes rather than food.
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In an interview, Wheeler said the prices of biofuel credits, called the Renewable Identification Numbers or RINs, have fallen, easing the financial strain on refineries complying with the biofuel blending requirements.
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The biofuel industry has been incensed by a surge in biofuel waivers granted under President Donald Trump's administration, which it says is hurting farmers by undermining demand for corn-based ethanol.
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In an interview, Andrew Wheeler said the prices of biofuel credits, called the Renewable Identification Numbers or RINs, have fallen, easing the financial strain on refineries complying with the biofuel blending requirements.
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Biofuel advocates, including the powerful corn lobby, hailed the decision as a major victory after the Obama Administration set biofuel blending targets starting in 2014 below levels set by a 2007 law.
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They are expected to set the target for conventional biofuel, or ethanol, at 15 billion gallons and the advanced biofuel target at 4.28 billion gallons, said two sources familiar with the plan.
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Wednesday's announcement prompted enthusiasm from Argentine biofuel exporters whose shipments have slowed to a trickle since September as the European Union (EU), the new main destination for Argentine biofuel, also considers adding tariffs.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish biofuel producer and oil refiner Neste said on Wednesday it will boost its biofuel production capacity in Singapore with a bigger-than-expected investment of 1.4 billion euros ($1.6 billion).
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The renewable fuel standards would address the percent of "cellulosic biofuel, biomass-based diesel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel" required to be mixed into gasoline and diesel fuels in 2017 and 2018.
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But such biofuel schemes are promising because they create a circular economy by turning waste to biofuel for profit, said Sanjoy Sanyal, senior associate for Clean Energy Finance at the World Resources Institute.
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The credits are used to meet annual biofuel blending requirements.
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Obviously, this doesn't mean that the biofuel initiatives were useless.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish oil refiner and biofuel producer Neste (NESTE.
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But, biofuel backers have strongly pushed back against these claims.
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The biofuel contains coffee oil, extracted from waste coffee grounds.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Finnish biofuel producer and oil refiner Neste (NESTE.
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I was not optimistic about biofuel, and wanted to diversify.
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That tradeoff limits how much biofuel can be made overall.
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Building and construction trades men and women build biofuel plants.
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The EPA issued a new proposal Wednesday for biofuel quotas, including... Dropping targets for alternative biofuel (cellulosic and advanced biofuels) to 19.24 billion gallons in 2018 from 19.28 billion this year, per The Hill.
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The oil and refining industries traditionally oppose expanding biofuel volumes under the RFS, arguing the industry's environmental benefits are overstated and that they're already blending as much biofuel into the fuel supply as they can.
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The number of reserve advanced biofuel RIN credits that refiners have accumulated and rolled forward from year to year now exceeds the number that they can legally use to meet the 85033 biofuel blending requirements.
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Biofuel is a better alternative as far as Maersk is concerned.
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Still, ethanol producers using sorghum for biofuel are reducing corn demand.
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Indonesia's biofuel producers association has said the allegations were "totally untrue".
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Oil refiners are required to meet EPA targets for biofuel use.
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But a wonky debate over the nation's biofuel policy just might.
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CORSIA sets a marketplace for carbon offsets and encourages biofuel use.
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In particular, the climate impacts of biofuel production can vary drastically.
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"I look forward to being able to visit with the president and getting a more in-depth briefing [on the pig shit-based biofuel]," Perry told the pranksters, believing their story about the president's biofuel invention.
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Sahat Sinaga, chairman of biofuel group Indonesia Bio-Hydrocarbon Society, said the government should start thinking of planting different crops for future feed stocks of biofuel, especially given there is a moratorium on new palm plantations.
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Our recommendation for a win-win solution for oil refiners and the biofuel industry is for more oil to should invest in blending infrastructure and advanced and cellulosic biofuel production capacity to capture RIN credit values.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Biofuel groups urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday to either stop granting exemptions from the nation's biofuel laws to smaller oil refineries or to force larger plants to make up the difference.
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EU biofuel producers used an estimated 400,000 tonnes of soybean oil for biofuel production in 2018 against some 5.9 million tonnes of rapeseed oil, the main feedstock, according to Claus Keller of German commodity analysts FO Licht.
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But some growers are upset with the administration over its biofuel policy.
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But Li said the Sinopec's aviation biofuel had met stringent safety standards.
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Each year, the EPA is required to set targets for biofuel use.
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The EPA is due to release final biofuel volume mandates by Nov.
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But the reality is that ethanol is a clean and renewable biofuel.
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The agency said it delivered on Trump's promise to expand biofuel requirements.
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His recent comments to that effect sent biofuel advocates into a frenzy.
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The EPA is due to finalize its biofuel requirements later this year.
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Biofuel advocates hope the lifting of the ban will boost ethanol sales.
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Wheeler had also said that fewer waivers may be granted this year, as the prices of biofuel credits, called Renewable Identification Numbers or RINs, have fallen, easing the financial strain on refineries complying with the biofuel blending requirements.
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Witnesses at a recent congressional hearing verified these facts; they highlighted EPA data indicating biofuel use is right on track to meet the RFS-mandated biofuel volumes for this year, and noted record domestic ethanol production and consumption.
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"And rather than roll back progress in cellulosic and advanced biofuel production, Congress should exercise its oversight authority to urge EPA to rapidly approve new biofuel technologies and provide new pathways to the transportation fuel marketplace," Erickson said.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Biofuel and climate experts have questioned Brazil's commitment to a plan to cut carbon emissions by raising ethanol use after the country's government this week said it planned to scrap a tax break on the biofuel.
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Scaling up jet biofuel - and making it cost effective - hasn't been easy, however.
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United, are experimenting with biofuel blends as a possible transition fuel of sorts.
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But there's a caveat: The biofuel blend consists of only 80% coffee oil.
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U.S. EPA DISREGARDED REFINERY PROFITABILITY WHEN GRANTING WAIVERS FROM NATION'S BIOFUEL LAWS - FILING
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The 2008 economic crisis also hampered advanced biofuel companies' ability to raise money.
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However, biofuel looks unlikely to contribute significantly to UPM's profits for some time.
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It's become noticeable recently there has been an increase in biofuel-hater chatter.
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The company is a partner of Petróleo Brasileiro SA in some biofuel assets.
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The EPA is required to make final its 2017 biofuel volumes by Nov.
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It was announced by Gevo, a Colorado-based biofuel developer, not by Lufthansa.
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RINs are simply numbered tags created when ethanol or another biofuel is produced.
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In 2011, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ran its first commercial flight using biofuel.
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Since the waivers were granted, farmers and biofuel producers have voiced swift opposition.
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Biodiesel, for example, is a commercially produced, advanced biofuel that reduces carbon emissions.
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A spokesman said AMaggi would "soon" make an announcement on its biofuel plans.
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Ted Cruz blamed the company's financial difficulties on biofuel credits hindering maximum production.
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Or maybe scientists tinkering with CRISPR will develop some revolutionary biofuel-making yeasts.
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"Given current production levels, most experts we interviewed told us that advanced biofuel production cannot achieve the statutory targets of 85033 billion gallons by 2022," the GAO said, noting that advanced biofuel production was below 150 million gallons last year.
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The threat of tariffs has halted Argentine biofuel sales to the EU, industry sources told Reuters, adding that imposing a tax would leave 85 percent of the country's biofuel exports without a viable market and may force suppliers to close shop.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. biofuel credits for 2018 and 2019 climbed on Thursday following a Reuters report that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could issue fewer small-refinery waivers from the nation's biofuel laws in coming weeks, market sources say.
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Biofuel producers in Indonesia have said they do not receive subsidies from the government.
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Refiners, especially smaller companies, have argued the biofuel laws are costly and overly burdensome.
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Another is to reallocate the volumes waived under the exemptions to the biofuel mandate.
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Alarmed, the Republican president ordered his cabinet to find ways to boost biofuel demand.
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They also use solar panels and coconut oil biofuel generators to power the resort.
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Four or five years ago biofuel was seen as futuristic, and today it's here.
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We are certainly investing in biofuel resources, but that is not the big answer.
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He declined to provide the investment cost or what the biofuel would sell for.
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This crop is harvested (4) and the oil extracted from the seeds (= aviation biofuel).
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Members of the biofuel industry have their concerns about the D8 credit as well.
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The U.S. government is due to finalize next year's biofuel mandates by end-November.
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Ethanol made from corn or soy is the dominant biofuel produced under the RFS.
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The company uses palm oil as part of the feed stock to produce biofuel.
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The EPA has said it has not changed how it handles biofuel waiver applications.
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Federal regulators are due to finalize next year's mandates for biofuel use within months.
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The 1,140-horsepower engine runs on biofuel and pushes the car to 21 mph.
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The country used 1.17 million tons of biofuel last year, according to government data.
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Advocacy for biofuel mandates has persisted despite the sea change in global energy production.
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The level of biofuel blending has been at 7 percent in France since 2013.
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The lack of it infuriated biofuel groups and Republican senators from corn state Iowa.
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The powerful senator, who represents the largest ethanol-producing state in the country, told Iowa Public Television that low biofuel credit prices negated refiners' complaints that they are suffering financial hardship and deserve waivers from complying with laws to encourage more biofuel use.
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NEW YORK, April 11 (Reuters) - U.S. biofuel credits for 2018 and 2019 climbed on Thursday following a Reuters report that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could issue fewer small-refinery waivers from the nation's biofuel laws in coming weeks, market sources say.
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One of the lessons learned, she said, is that making the biofuel locally is key.
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The agency has begun preparations to reset future biofuel targets, said EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.
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The biofuel industry has criticized the expansion, saying it undercuts the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard.
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Receipts lay scattered on the factory floor from a German company named Andritz Feed & Biofuel.
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The Indonesia Biofuel Producers Association expects unblended biodiesel exports to reach 800,000 kilolitres this year.
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Because these gutter giants contain a high fat content, scientists can transform fatbergs into biofuel.
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IRENA's report found that, worldwide, liquid biofuel jobs increased by an estimated 6% in 2018.
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Camelina oil is used as a biofuel and a substitute for fish oil in aquaculture.
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His company is now the driving the movement to bring croton biofuel to the mainstream.
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Biofuel groups say the EPA is using the court decision to justify gutting the RFS.
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The requirements include 15 billion gallons for conventional biofuel, which is mainly corn-based ethanol.
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The good markets I had for biofuel production, animal feed, and exports have been diminished.
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In truth, there has never been any significant correlation between food prices and biofuel production.
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Critics say that using palm oil in biofuel adds to massive deforestation in tropical countries.
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One of these subsidies, a tax credit for biofuel producers, is in an envious position.
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An area the size of Iowa no longer available to produce food, fiber and biofuel.
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"Biofuel -- like ethanol -- is one of the answers to significantly reducing climate change," said Broin.
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He had tried to quantify how increasing the demand for biofuel would change land use.
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The price of corn has indeed plummeted from the early days of the biofuel boom.
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He said the announcement would hopefully "quell" the market for biofuel blending credits, called RINs.
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And environmental activists are growing increasingly concerned about the climate side effects of biofuel production.
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United began using a biofuel blend out of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in 2016.
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Nearby is a kitchen, two bathrooms and a utility room with a new biofuel stove.
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Icahn was betting the cost of the biofuel credits would fall, and it did initially.
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In addition, biofuel production encourages farmers to improve their productivity and efficient use of resources.
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But farmers have threatened to withdraw support because of his administration's handling of biofuel policy.
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In addition to biofuel, the company uses some of those leftovers to make animal feed.
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The law currently requires refiners to blend 15 billion gallons of the biofuel per year.
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On Friday, United will use 16,000 gallons of biofuel at a 30/70 blend with conventional jet fuel on Flight 44 from San Francisco to Zurich, which it said will be the longest flight to date by a U.S. airline powered by that much biofuel.
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The flights will run over a period of five to six weeks and use about 200 tonnes of blended biofuel in a mix of 47 percent neat biofuel and 53 percent fossil fuel, according to SkyNRG, which sources, blends and distributes sustainable jet fuel.
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PARIS (Reuters) - European biofuel producers said a proposal by Brussels to nearly halve the level of crop-based biofuel used in the European Union by 4.93 was a U-turn in policy that would threaten jobs and boost animal feed and crude oil imports.
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Farmers and biofuel producers have complained that Trump is favoring the oil industry at their expense.
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The agency set the requirements for use of cellulosic biofuel at 230 million gallons for 2016.
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The analysis compared the biofuel with 2005 gasoline, before regular blending of the fuel with ethanol.
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Lower ethanol prices disincentivize cane mills from producing the biofuel, encouraging them to produce sugar instead.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has angered the biofuels industry by calling for less biofuel blending.
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In March, the airline announced it was launching roughly 80 biofuel flights between Oslo and Amsterdam.
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Mondelez says it's a relatively small buyer of palm oil, which is also used for biofuel.
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"Solaris has very strong potential compared to other biofuel feedstocks," says RSB Executive Director Rolf Hogan.
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"Brazil is the Saudi Arabia of biofuel," BP's head of Alternative Energy, Dev Sanyal, told Reuters.
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Blue Marble took the oil from 65,000 pounds of coffee grounds and converted it into biofuel.
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"I can say that croton is one of the most promising sources of biofuel," he says.
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Sorghum used in ethanol pales in comparison to the amount of corn used to make biofuel.
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The plant, which produces corn-based ethanol biofuel, is one of the largest in the world.
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Congress had hoped biofuel production volumes under the standard would hit 36 billion gallons by 2022.
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Kolmar, a major importer of the biofuel, previously had a tolling arrangement with the Connecticut plant.
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Lower oil prices can encourage Brazilian cane mills to produce more sugar rather than biofuel ethanol.
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High ethanol prices encourage Brazilian cane mills to produce more of the biofuel rather than sugar.
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Others are making use of this newfound material to create paper, shoes, livestock feed, and biofuel.
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Biofuel companies have complained that the move is an expensive political gift to the oil industry.
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He's met with representatives of oil, gas, electric, biofuel and other such companies almost 35 times.
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Last year, United began using a biofuel blend on some of its flights from Los Angeles.
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The RFS requires refiners to blend enormous amounts of biofuel, mostly corn-based ethanol, into gasoline.
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He questioned Wheeler whether the EPA could decide on exemptions first before setting annual biofuel targets.
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Aerion's plane would have an engine designed with seals that could handle the biofuel, he said.
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But palm oil is hardly the only source of biofuel being explored by the US government.
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WHITE HOUSE EXPECTED TO MEET WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON WITH OIL REFINER OFFICIALS OVER STALLED BIOFUEL DEAL -SOURCES
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"If you pull out biofuel, the whole system will collapse," said Dono Boestami, the fund's director.
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On Friday, U.S. agricultural trade groups criticized a biofuel reform package proposed by the Trump administration.
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On Friday, U.S. agricultural trade groups criticized a biofuel reform package proposed by the Trump administration.
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He said he hoped the announcement would "quell" the market for biofuel blending credits, called RINs.
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Few candidates, if any, have voiced skepticism about the economic or environmental benefits of biofuel subsidies.
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Activist groups like Friends of the Earth are already mobilizing to challenge biofuel subsidies and mandates.
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That process is already happening at biofuel plants, which convert cellulose into sugar to make ethanol.
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Bunge – Bunge sold its stake in an Iowa ethanol plant amid struggles for the biofuel industry.
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"We've been working with Boeing for a long time now on the biofuel project," Gane says.
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But some farmers have threatened to withdraw support because of his administration's handling of biofuel policy.
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But some farmers have threatened to withdraw support because of his administration's handling of biofuel policy.
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Ernst, who supported Pruitt's nomination, called a biofuel mandate agreement negotiated by the White House a "bad deal" during an S&P Global Platts Energy Podium event in Washington, D.C., and said the EPA's increased distribution of hardship waivers of the Renewable Fuel Standard diminishes biofuel demand.
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NEW YORK, Sept 10 (Reuters) - White House officials have arranged to meet with representatives of biofuel companies on Wednesday to discuss the administration's plan to increase biofuel blending mandates, which has so far failed to win the industry's support, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
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Rather than storing the CO2, CCU uses it to make other substances such as plastics or biofuel.
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Petroleum companies say the biofuel targets are impossible to meet and add billions of dollars in costs.
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Biofuel unit CropEnergies on Wednesday reported higher earnings and forecast increased earnings in its current financial year.
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"We have asked that Indonesian companies be allowed to produce jet biofuel in the U.S.," he said.
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In one case, it paid $2161 a gallon for 22017,055 gallons of biofuel based on algae oil.
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About a week ago, the administration granted 31 exemptions from the nation's biofuel laws to 31 refineries.
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On Wednesday, biofuel industry groups and farm-state lawmakers complained to the White House about refinery waivers.
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Exports of ethanol, which can be turned into a biofuel, gained 82 percent to 3,428 cubic metres.
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Using land to generate solar power is about eight times more efficient than biofuel production, he noted.
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Those in the biofuel market are asked to respond to the airlines' inquiry by May 30, 2016.
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Such market participants in the past have acquired large volumes of the biofuel credits in speculative plays.
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Copersucar said its subsidiary now holds a 16 percent share of the American market for the biofuel.
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U.S. EPA EXPECTED TO PUBLISH E15 GASOLINE WAIVER AND BIOFUEL CREDIT TRADING REFORM RULE BY WEDNESDAY - SOURCES
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It includes targets for conventional and advanced biofuel for 2018 and for biomass-based diesel for 2019.
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The key objective was that biofuel production should not compete with water and land for food production.
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China also uses wheat, sorghum and rice to make the biofuel in some parts of the country.
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That has saved refiners money but angered the corn lobby, which argues the practice erodes biofuel demand.
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But biofuel groups say the EPA is using the cover of the court to gut the RFS.
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He said the administration had "caved" to biofuel interests and "failed to drain the swamp as promised."
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José Mauro Coelho, EPE's head of oil, gas and biofuel research, shared its findings in an interview.
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That's the corn-based biofuel the government requires be laced into gasoline in the name of conservation.
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Campers in the United States benefit from Biolite's efficient, lightweight stoves, biofuel pellets and solar charging stations.
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On Wednesday, 150 biofuel manufacturers sent an open letter to Trump urging him to protect the program.
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There is nothing new about U.S. biofuel policy being set by bipartisan blocs of senators and representatives.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - White House officials on Wednesday urged U.S. biofuel producers and oil refiners to accept a deal to lift biofuel blending mandates in 2020, saying overlong negotiations could make it hard to enact the change in time for next year, sources familiar with the discussions said.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - White House officials on Wednesday urged U.S. biofuel producers and oil refiners to accept a deal to lift biofuel blending mandates in 2020, saying overlong negotiations could make it hard to enact the change in time for next year, sources familiar with the discussions said.
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On Wednesday, biofuel industry groups and farm-state lawmakers complained to the White House about the refinery waivers.
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The EPA is seen granting 30 exemptions from the nation's biofuel laws out of the 38 pending petitions.
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The microbes feed on the carbon and produce ethanol, the biofuel that is blended into most U.S. gasoline.
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But when they are, they will produce 92 million gallons of advanced biofuel per year… for the military.
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Eventually, a third of biofuel for aviation will come from seeds bred by the company, Mr Fabijanski predicts.
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He later called Grassley, one of the most vocal advocates of the U.S. biofuel industry, the sources said.
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A number of biofuel comments opposed the plan, arguing it rewards PES for mismanagement and flouting the law.
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They have already bought enough sorghum to operate biofuel plants through July, ethanol makers and grain traders said.
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The waiver provision was intended to temporarily exempt smaller refineries so they could invest in biofuel blending equipment.
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Biofuel industry representatives say there is inherent difficulty in reaching consumers if a product is not widely available.
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The Renewable Fuel Standard requires fuel companies to use increasing amounts of biofuel blended with gasoline and diesel.
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Bioenergética Aroeira was one of the 17 mills in Brazil's center-south that concentrated entirely on the biofuel.
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It has helped make America the world's largest biofuel producer and created thousands of jobs in the heartland.
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Unica strongly supports RenovaBio and has proposed mandates for biofuel use similar to those in the United States.
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Without a fix, the consequences could spread throughout the agriculture industry, all the way to the biofuel sector.
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Chuck Grassley, who on Tuesday cited a biofuel decision when announcing he is considering calling for Pruitt's resignation.
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They are created with each gallon of biofuel produced and can be bought and sold by different companies.
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The Justice Department is reportedly investigating Icahn's efforts to change biofuel policy during his tenure as Trump's adviser.
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The exemptions represent more than 2 billion gallons of potentially lost demand for ethanol, the biofuel industry says.
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Therefore the biofuel the Navy took on in the Mediterranean earlier this year arguably enlarged its carbon footprint.
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You probably know that the government allows gasoline to be mixed with some kind of biofuel like corn.
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In August, the Environmental Protection Agency granted 31 waivers to small refineries, temporarily exempting them from biofuel laws.
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The facts show that federal policy can control the cost of RINs without adversely impacting domestic biofuel use.
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Biotechnology and biorefinery companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in advanced biofuel R&D and innovation.
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But biofuel industry representatives called the memo evidence the agency is biased in favor of the oil industry.
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The government will issue decarbonization credits to biofuel producers in proportion to the volume of fuel they sell.
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As part of the advanced biofuel proposal, the agency set mandates for cellulosic fuel at 540 million gallons.
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The first sample product was synthesised in a Sinopec laboratory the following year but the biofuel was not used in a commercial flight until March 2015, when a Hainan Airlines Boeing 737 used a 50-50 mix of conventional jet fuel and biofuel to fly 156 passengers from Shanghai to Beijing.
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The Navy has paid as much as $424 a gallon for algae-based biofuel in the past, but expensive alternative fuels are now a non-starter for congressional Republicans, who have blocked the Navy from spending more on a gallon of biofuel than it does on a gallon of regular diesel.
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Over the past month, several biofuel plants announced shutdowns or production cutbacks, including the largest U.S. ethanol producer POET.
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Some could, for instance, produce higher concentrations of alcohol from sugar (which is useful in producing biofuel, or beverages).
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Another market segment experiencing rapid growth is the biofuel and biomass industry, which requires agricultural, biological and chemical expertise.
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Other ships in the strike group and throughout the Navy will receive the biofuel blend over the next year.
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Demand for biofuel as oil prices rise and surpluses shrink could support values for vegetable oil, sugar and corn.
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Exemptions representing some 2019 million gallons worth of biofuel were granted for 2017 and 2016, according to the EPA.
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"ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" Farmers and biofuel producers have complained that Trump is favoring the oil industry at their expense.
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A worst-case scenario for biofuels would be if the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lowered domestic biofuel use requirements.
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They had experience working with a species of bacteria known as clostridium while developing a biofuel for Cobalt Technologies.
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On top of that, we've got the ethanol program, which requires gasoline to be mixed with biofuel, usually corn.
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ZACH SERBER worked at Amyris, a synthetic-biology pioneer, when the company was trying to crack the biofuel market.
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The group has separately filed to intervene on behalf of EPA in another lawsuit brought forward by biofuel interests.
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AFPM has also filed separately to intervene on behalf of EPA in another lawsuit brought forward by biofuel interests.
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This biofuel, which makes up 20 percent of the final fuel blend, will then be mixed with traditional diesel.
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Biofuels producers create renewable fuels credits known as Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) with each gallon of biofuel they produce.
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The biofuel projects have been accompanied by signs of a pick up in investment in more traditional forest products.
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COMPASS MINERALS: Biofuel company POET is losing its top lawyer to Overland Park, Kansas-based Compass Minerals International Inc.
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Biofuel groups argued that the waivers reduce demand for biofuels like ethanol and create regulatory uncertainty that dampens investment.
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Tetiaroa's bungalows are now LEED certified, run on coconut biofuel, are solar powered, and use wastewater for sustainable irrigation.
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Last month, biofuel and agriculture groups did the same, kicking off a widely-expected legal review of the policy.
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Ross previously worked on biofuel policy and financial sector investment in U.S. farmland at the California-based Oakland Institute.
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The EPA projects that cellulosic biofuel will make up less than one-hundredth of 1 percent of gasoline consumed.
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That led local mills to produce more of the biofuel and less sugar, a trend that could change now.
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Waxman thought a biofuel requirement could be a turning point in climate legislation, a moment when Washington stopped pretending.
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Ted Cruz (TX) opposed federal biofuel mandates and faced harsh questions about his stance at nearly every campaign stop.
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It's a move that saves oil companies millions of dollars but destroys a large part of the biofuel market.
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Cruz will be a one-term president because of his murderous tax ideas, so he'll never end biofuel mandates.
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Furthermore, fuel marketers and retailers don't control whether or not the nation's petroleum supply can be blended with biofuel.
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Biofuel producers have long pushed the EPA to set higher blending requirements, something opposed by oil producers and refiners.
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Farmers and biofuel producers have said that plan does not go far enough to make up for waived gallons.
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Valero's biofuel blending costs totaled $217 million in the fourth quarter, $60 million higher than the year-ago period.
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The waivers from the country's biofuel laws were fewer than previous year's and marked an increase in the number of petitions rejected, but the EPA's decision was still unlikely to satisfy the powerful U.S. corn lobby which wants a broad retrenchment of the biofuel waiver program it blames for undercutting ethanol demand.
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BECCS, in which power stations capture and store the CO2 from burning biofuel, has been touted as a way to do that on a large scale, but the area of land required to grow the biofuel needed to absorb billions of tonnes of CO2 would be enormous—several times the size of India.
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Lower demand for ethanol could hurt biofuel and agricultural companies like Archer Daniels Midland Co, POET and Green Plains Inc.
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DDGS are a byproduct of ethanol production and have become a key part of profits for makers of the biofuel.
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The biofuel industry meanwhile says they threaten ethanol demand, even though federal data shows blending rates have been relatively stable.
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TRUMP WILL BE PRESENTED OPTIONS FOR FUTURE BIOFUEL POLICY, ONE POSSIBILITY IS REVERSING SOME SMALL REFINERY WAIVERS ALREADY GRANTED - SOURCES
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A second source said another option was to redistribute the waived volumes prospectively beginning in next year's annual biofuel mandate.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's center-right government sold a stake of 5 percent in oil refiner and biofuel company Neste (NESTE.
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The state is America's top corn and ethanol producer, with 20143 biofuel plants that help support more than 40,000 jobs.
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DDGS are a byproduct of ethanol production and have become a key contributor to profits for makers of the biofuel.
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IT HAS been ten years since Virgin Atlantic flew a Boeing 747 partly powered by biofuel between London and Amsterdam.
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"This is very significant as it proves we can use this biofuel," says Ian Cruickshank, SAA Group Environmental Affairs Specialist.
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EPA disappointed both the biofuel and oil industries with its November plan for the Renewable Fuel Standard for 2014-2016.
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That could also be a decade away from commercial sales, said Anders Hultgren, head of development of biofuel at SCA.
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According to Boeing, a major maker of passenger jet planes, more than 1,500 commercials flights had used biofuel since 2011.
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As president, I would encourage regulators to end restrictions that keep higher blends of ethanol and biofuel from being sold.
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Mills in Brazil have been reducing sugar production and increasing ethanol volumes since the biofuel is giving better returns currently.
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The company already has contracts with France's Tereos and with BP Biocombustíveis SA, a biofuel company owned by BP Plc.
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"Biofuel and agricultural voices do not support the D8 RIN," Brooke Coleman, head of the Advanced Biofuels Business Council, said.
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With the raw material available throughout Scotland, Tangney estimates it could eventually produce 50 million liters of biofuel each year.
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The law envisioned that cellulosic biofuel from non-food feedstocks would eventually make up the brunt of the RFS mandate.
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USDA office move may have broken law, watchdog says MORE, who are urging the EPA to expand U.S. biofuel markets.
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It also suggested it was not necessary to increase biofuel use to meet Brazil's commitments under a global climate pact.
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Lievonen led the company for 10 years, helping it to transform from an oil refiner into a profitable biofuel producer.
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The change would put the onus on fuel blenders, rather than refiners, to comply with regulations on buying biofuel credits.
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Gates previously invested in Amyris, a synthetic-biology company that originally produced precursors to malaria drugs and hydrocarbon-based biofuel.
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The EPA responded to a request for comment by saying it was implementing biofuel policy in accordance with the law.
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Quintupling biofuel production would require a huge amount of additional arable land, far more than existed in the United States.
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The meeting is due to take place hours after a separate meeting the administration has arranged with biofuel company officials.
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Its overall goal is to increase the sale of the biofuel beyond the current mandate of 15 billion gallons annually.
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"Any plan to transfer small refineries' biofuel obligations to other refineries will do more harm than good," Senator Barrasso said.
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Biofuel companies support maintaining it as is, while oil and gas companies argue current standards are hurting their bottom line.
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That places a premium on other new engines that are more efficient, but still use conventional fuels or biofuel blends.
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Exemptions representing some 2.25 million gallons worth of biofuel were granted for 2017 and 2016, according to the EPA proposal.
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In line to get these handouts are racehorse owners, motorsports complexes, Hollywood filmmakers, biofuel producers, electric vehicle owners and more.
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Wheeler said the agency was open to changes sought by the biofuel industry, but only if it made concessions too.
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Understanding how these powerful rural blocs shape biofuel policy in the United States and Brazil is important for two reasons.
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Biofuel and carbon "credits" are tools that designed to incentivize renewable energy investments, but in practice, they usually encourage complacency.
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The next generation of biofuel types move away from the high costs of edible crops and use either grasses or trees.
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This ultimately cuts into the maximum yield of biofuel these types of bacteria can create, and is known as carbon loss.
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The Eraole's electric engine is powered by solar panels across the wings, and when there's not enough sunlight, biofuel kicks in.
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U.S. BIOFUEL CREDITS FOR 2018 AND 2019 MOVE HIGHER ON REUTERS REPORT THAT EPA COULD ISSUE FEWER SMALL REFINERY WAIVERS - TRADERS
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The infamous Koch brothers, as well as ethanol (biofuel) producers and Big Oil, are all working to undermine the electric car.
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Image: GettyResidents of Sao Paolo, Brazil, should be proud that their megacity is the only one that uses biofuel for cars.
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Launched in 2014, bio-bean has been reducing the cuppa's carbon footprint by turning tons of coffee grounds into biofuel pellets.
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The use of more harmful biofuel feedstocks will be capped at 2019 levels until 2023 and reduced to zero by 2030.
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Two sources told Reuters the senators were particularly concerned about Wheelers rejection of the initial staff proposal on biofuel volume targets.
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Edinburgh-based Celtic Renewables is taking the by-products of whisky production and using them to create a next-generation biofuel.
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The agency estimated that it would complete a report on the impact of the biofuel mandate by the end of 2017.
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The Trump administration has tried to reduce compliance costs for refiners, drawing the ire of biofuel producers and their legislative backers.
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EPA GRANTS AN ADDITIONAL 2017 SMALL REFINERY EXEMPTION FROM U.S. BIOFUEL LAWS ON THURSDAY, BRINGING TALLY FOR YEAR TO 35 -EPA
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After that call, Pruitt backed away from a plan to reduce how much biofuel — mostly corn ethanol — is required in gasoline.
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He said growing concerns about food security have led other countries – including China – to stop giving permission for new biofuel projects.
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Despite this, Stephens points out, the U.S. continues to deeply subsidize biofuels, and the biofuel lobby remains extremely powerful in Washington.
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But activists' influence pales in comparison to the corn ethanol lobby, which has been successful in keeping the biofuel mandate alive.
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And she called out Wehrum for his "record of opposing the Renewable Fuel Standard," the federal mandate on biofuel blending requirements.
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In September 2016, the airline said it had signed a three-year deal to run biofuel flights out of Los Angeles.
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The expanded use of biofuel waivers under President Donald Trump's administration has been a flashpoint between the oil and corn industries.
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CBOT corn edged 0.5% lower, as the cereal widely used in ethanol remained under pressure from crumbling demand for the biofuel.
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By this accounting, vegetable-oil-based biofuel fares well against petroleum fuels, reducing CO₂ emissions by as much as 80 percent.
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OPIC has acknowledged the problems that led to the Liberian biofuel project fiasco and conducted internal reviews to introduce more safeguards.
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U.S. EPA HAS DECIDED TO SCALE BACK BIOFUEL WAIVER PROGRAM FOR SMALL REFINERIES DUE TO COURT DECISION SOURCE FAMILIAR WITH SITUATION
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The EPA proposal would leave the target for conventional biofuel, mostly corn-based ethanol, at 20193 billion gallons, the agency said.
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But Exxon is fighting back, including by launching television ads that highlight the company's research into algae as a potential biofuel.
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Commercial planes have flown over 150,000 flights with biofuel blends, but just five airports in the entire world carry this fuel.
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Any suggestion that we must choose between oil jobs and the substantial benefits that flow from these biofuel jobs is false.
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Brazil, with one of the most developed markets for biofuel production and consumption, was touted as a country of the future.
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This comes as CVR Refining reported a liability of $279.9 million tied to its biofuel blending obligation through the second quarter.
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Unfortunately, the current structure of the federal biofuel mandate — called the Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS — fails to achieve these goals.
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For ethanol's supporters, it means increasing party polarization threatens to undermine the cross-party regional alliances that now drive biofuel policy.
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Second, the regional support that drives biofuel policy contains a lesson relevant for the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
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Two sources told Reuters the senators were particularly concerned about Wheeler's rejection of the initial staff proposal on biofuel volume targets.
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TOP EPA CAREER OFFICIAL IN CHARGE OF OFFICE OVERSEEING VEHICLE EMISSIONS, BIOFUEL STANDARDS WILL SWITCH TO NEW POSITION OVERSEEING ATMOSPHERIC PROGRAMS -- MEMO
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Existing biofuel production stands at 1 billion liters a year, or just 0.004 percent of current global fuel demand, IRENA experts said.
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Wang added that governments in affected regions could find strategies "to make it useful," citing seaweed's potential use as biofuel or fertilizer.
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U.S. EPA CHIEF ANDREW WHEELER TELLS REUTERS EPA MIGHT GRANT FEWER SMALL REFINERY EXEMPTIONS FROM BIOFUEL LAWS DUE TO LOWER RIN PRICES
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So the idea would be, for example, one day to be able to drive the same car but with a biofuel instead.
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The move comes after President Donald Trump's administration this month decided to grant exemptions from the nation's biofuel laws to 31 refineries.
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Neste has benefited from its profitable biofuel business, which has plants in Singapore and Rotterdam, and is looking to expand its capacity.
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The biofuel industry, meanwhile, has criticized the expansion of the program under Trump, saying it undercuts the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
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SAA is aiming to have 50% of its fleet using the biofuel by 2023, which could reach 500 million liters per year.
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From March 2013 to March 2014, the Justice Department statement said, the conspirators generated at least 60 million fraudulent biofuel compliance credits.
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The shares have nearly doubled in value over the past year, helped by its profitable biofuel business and its renewable products division.
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Neste, which also has two conventional oil refineries in Finland, is looking into extending the capacity at its biofuel plant in Singapore.
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She added Neste's plan to expand its biofuel production in Singapore would enable it to provide sufficient volumes for the aviation market.
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The Trump administration has also considered changes to U.S. biofuel policy that ethanol producers worry would shrink domestic demand for their product.
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Colombia, for example, is one of several countries changing biofuel policies to prioritize the use of varieties with a lower carbon footprint.
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Unica said 40 percent of the plants able to produce both sugar and ethanol had shifted toward the biofuel early this month.
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Biofuel production, on the other hand, has driven rapid advancements in agricultural efficiency, facilitating investments in greater yields and rural economic growth.
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"The EPA should ensure that biofuel ... blend levels match the statutory level set by Congress under the [renewable fuel standard]," Trump said.
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The law required that all diesel and home heating oil sold in the state contain at least 5 percent biofuel by 2013.
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They would also help ethanol producers become more competitive with the fossil fuel after years of heavy losses in the biofuel industry.
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Patrick Kelly, a spokesman for the American Petroleum Institute, said the proposal "punishes the companies already complying" with the nation's biofuel law.
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The deal will be open for public comment for 10 days before it is finalized, and biofuel groups are showing early opposition.
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FAT-FINDING MISSION Today, collectors are competing to lock up supplies from around the region to feed expanding biofuel operations in Europe.
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Britain-based biofuel supplier Greenergy in July acquired an idle vegetable oil processing plant in Amsterdam to turn waste oil into biodiesel.
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Some biofuel crops can even generate more greenhouse-gas emissions than fossil fuels do, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
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Its total uncommitted biofuel blending cost at the end of the quarter was $127 million, CVR Chief Financial Officer Susan Ball said.
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Besides the six plants that produce ethanol using both cane and corn, there are two plants producing the biofuel using exclusively corn.
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That target is being widely watched by global biofuel markets as China is unlikely to meet its ethanol needs through domestic production.
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DEBT WORRIES, ETHANOL STOCKS U.S. corn prices also eased Thursday, weakened by high ethanol stocks, which could curb demand from biofuel producers.
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They want to use biohacking to save the environment by figuring out a way to make a recyclable plastic or a biofuel.
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Japan's biofuel mandate, which extends through 2022, calls for the use of 820 million liters (217 million gallons) of ethanol per year.
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The research suggests there is "massive potential for large-scale sustainable production of biofuel", the scientists said in a statement this week.
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EPA DISCUSSING POSSIBILITY OF IMPOSING CAPS OR OTHER RESTRICTIONS ON THE PRICE OF BIOFUEL BLENDING CREDITS TO LIMIT COSTS TO REFINERS SOURCES
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When people start talking about the "biofuel market," it sets free-marketers, the oil industry and oil-state Republicans' teeth on edge.
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Grassley and Ernst said allowing the biofuel to be sold year-round would not offset the damage from the pro-refinery proposals.
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Biofuel producers say they are unwilling to take EPA officials at their word that the final number will be 15 billion gallons.
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To demand a better renewable fuel standard for taxpayers, submit a request to the EPA for a reduced biofuel mandate next year.
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Uncertainty delayed investment in 2nd generation biofuel research and infrastructure in our country, pushed proposed production plants overseas, and hampered job creation.
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The issue could undermine President Donald Trump's support among biofuel advocates and corn farmers, an important constituency in the November 2020 election.
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It would also help ethanol producers become more competitive with the fossil fuel after years of heavy losses in the biofuel industry.
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Since 2005, it has required oil companies to make increasing amounts of biofuel available to consumers as part of America's fuel mix.
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"Any plan to transfer small refineries' biofuel obligations to other refineries will do more harm than good," Barrasso said in a statement.
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But the real drivers of biofuel policy in both countries are powerful multiparty blocs of legislators representing rural areas and agricultural interests.
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Many congressional Republicans objected three years ago when the Navy won support for defense subsidies to help three private firms build biofuel refineries.
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When the Navy first tested biofuel versions of marine diesel and jet fuel in 2210, it spent eye-popping sums for small amounts.
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Prices have been under pressure since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency granted the 31 small refinery biofuel waivers for 2018 earlier this month.
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The acrimonious debate over the federal biofuel mandate pits two of his core support bases against each other - Big Oil and Big Corn.
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The Mette Maersk, powered by an oil and biofuel blend, arrives in Hong Kong — Credit: Maersk It's an approach CMB has already adopted.
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The group has joined other biofuel and agriculture interests that filed a similar lawsuit last month, challenging the agency's ability to lower requirements.
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The biofuel industry will be represented by officials from major producers POET and Green Plains Inc, along with others, the two sources said.
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L) does not expect supply from additional biofuel capacity in Brazil - where it is combining its unit with U.S. grain trader Bunge's (BG.
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In November, it set volumes for 2014-2016 below a 2007 plan laid out by Congress, disappointing both the oil and biofuel industries.
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Soybean and corn futures rose earlier this week, supported in part by reports of potential changes to U.S. biofuel policy to boost production.
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After President George W. Bush signed a bill mandating biofuel use in 2007, environmentalists argued that this would wrongly prioritize fuel over food.
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In its proposal released in June, the EPA said it would boost total biofuel volumes under the Renewable Fuel Standard by 3.1 percent.
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Under the programme, biofuel companies can generate RINs credits they can sell to other companies who need them to meet their fuel requirements.
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BP DOES NOT EXPECT ADDITIONAL BIOFUEL CAPACITY IN BRAZIL TO REPLACE DIESEL, GASOLINE, RATHER TO SATISFY FUEL DEMAND GROWTH- BP ALTERNATIVE ENERGY CHIEF
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The owner of the largest East Coast oil-refining complex is filing for bankruptcy and blaming an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) biofuel mandate.
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The new biofuel, which contains part coffee oil, can be used without the need for engine modification, the companies said in a statement.
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The American Farm Bureau Federation noted that the industry has already made some contributions by producing biofuel and setting aside land for conservation.
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So instead of cellulosic biofuel, today, American cars burn a lot of ethanol made from corn, up to 15 billion gallons in 2018.
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SAS recently launched a program that allows passengers to purchase biofuel to replace conventional jet fuel for their flights, based on time increments.
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At the same time, the Trump administration will aim to limit speculation in the market for biofuel credits, the official told reporters Monday.
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Meanwhile, refiners have been disappointed by the EPA's refusal to cut the amount of biofuel they're required to blend into gasoline and diesel.
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In fact, the EPA just released its proposed 2019 biofuel requirements and continues to increase the number of available RINs beyond prior levels.
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Waivers can save them tens of millions of dollars but are broadly opposed by the corn industry, which argues they undercut biofuel demand.
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For 2017, Kentucky approved 209 hemp growers to cultivate 12,800 acres of industrial hemp, which can be used for paper, textiles, and biofuel.
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Because biofuel generally releases less in greenhouse gases than fossil fuel when burned, all that ethanol would be good for the environment, too.
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But suppose you want an enzyme to do something slightly different, say turn a starchy plant like corn into a clean-burning biofuel.
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An old lumber mill was leased out with the condition that the village gets all the sawdust, which it turns into biofuel pellets.
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Earlier this week it was reported that Trump would be meeting with various agency heads to discuss possible changes to the biofuel mandate.
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Those statutory goals include a 6900 billion gallon cap on conventional biofuel, which is nearly all corn ethanol, to be achieved in 2628.
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The announcement preceded release of the proposed rule by over a week, and biofuel backers were stunned when they read the official text.
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The company has 66 assets in the South American country, including 43 hydroelectric plants, 19 wind farms and 4 biofuel co-generation plants.
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Wrong politically: Whatever else we conclude about ethanol, the one thing that won't soon go away soon is the biofuel lobby in Washington.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing lower biofuel quotas in 21625 than those currently on the books and required by federal law.
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In high demand in export markets, domestic demand for Brazilian corn has been strong as meat-packers and biofuel producers step up purchases.
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The country already has eight plants converting the grain into biofuel, plus six under construction and at least seven more in design phase.
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In August, the Trump administration sparked outrage across the Farm Belt after it granted 31 oil refiners exemptions to their biofuel blending obligations.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is also required to buy up excess sugar and sell it to biofuel refineries at taxpayer-discounted prices.
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Malaysian palm oil futures reached their highest in nearly three years on forecasts for lower production coupled with demand for use in biofuel.
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Cruz specifically argued in favor of a cap on the RIN system, which he argued would keep prices on biofuel credits down. Sens.
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Consequently, U.S. biofuel policy is a bloody mess and will likely remain so through the expiration of the current RFS law in 28503.
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Grundler oversaw the roll-out of some of the agency's biggest regulations, including greenhouse gas standards for light-duty vehicles and biofuel requirements.
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So far the effort is a small "proof of concept" project, likely to produce just enough jet biofuel for one more flight, she said.
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GOP U.S. SENATOR CHUCK GRASSLEY REQUESTS INFORMATION FROM ENERGY DEPARTMENT ON HOW ITS SCORES APPLICATIONS FROM SMALL REFINERS SEEKING WAIVERS FROM BIOFUEL LAWS - LETTER
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Many green groups have largely turned away from supporting the biofuel, arguing electric cars are a better option than traditional ones with ethanol supplementation.
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Most airlines that use biofuels, however, are restricted in terms of how many flights they can provide biofuel for due to its limited availability.
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"Demand for renewable diesel is expected to remain strong in the first quarter due to the continuously growing biofuel mandates in 2020," Neste said.
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They can also be turned into mulch or biofuel or otherwise recycled, and they produce oxygen and preserve green space, including habitats for animals.
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But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has yet to make the biofuel industry whole for the lost gallons despite repeated promises to do so.
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It could then be argued that their crops cover demand for biofuel and for food and feeds, without needing expansion onto non-agricultural land.
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The EPA is required to announce formally the biofuel mandate figures, which are closely watched by the rival corn and oil industries, by Friday.
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" In 2012, the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) flew what it described as, "the first civil jet powered by 100 percent unblended biofuel.
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Soybean and corn futures rallied sharply earlier this week, supported in part by reports of potential changes to U.S. biofuel policy to boost production.
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Biofuel backers say the program should retain loftier targets in its final years to encourage companies to keep investing in new plants and technology.
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"Our goal is simple: to keep moving the RFS forward, not backward," said Emily Skor, chief executive of Growth Energy, a biofuel trade group.
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Rather than considering how much biofuel supply was available to refiners and importers, the EPA considered how much demand consumers expressed for renewable fuels.
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Many were classified as "wastelands" or government land and diverted for quarrying, biofuel cultivation, mines and other commercial purposes, displacing and depriving local communities.
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Biofuel engineers are working on converting kelp or seaweed biomass to fuel analogous to the way that, say, corn biomass is converted to ethanol.
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Emily Skor, CEO of biofuel trade group Growth Energy, expressed concern about any role Icahn may have played in planning changes to the program.
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China, another top global biofuel buyer, increased an existing tariff on U.S. ethanol imports as part of the Washington-Beijing trade dispute, hampering shipments.
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Manufacturing a termite biofuel would require identifying the genes for wood eating from the termite's microbe colony and inserting them into a cellular bag.
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The oil and gas group argued that removing the tax breaks would put at risk its biofuel production site in La Mede, southern France.
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Petroleum companies say it will take major overhauls to fueling station infrastructure and vehicle design before they can meet biofuel targets set by Congress.
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The program was designed to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign fossil fuels, cut pollution and greenhouse gas emissions and bolster the domestic biofuel industry.
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In addition, more than 170,000 flights to date have used biofuel blends, including flights by Qantas Airways, United Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and Alaska Airlines.
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The data is the strongest sign that Beijing's mandate to add biofuel into the nation's fuel by 2020 is reviving demand for foreign ethanol.
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The senators claimed Icahn significantly benefited from a policy proposal to shift the burden of complying with biofuel quotas from refiners to fuel blenders.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), last week, made final its biofuel mandate levels for 2018, keeping levels steady and fulfilling the ethanol industry's wishes.
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Powering buses After extraction, rather than ending up in a landfill, the fatberg fragments were turned into biofuel at a special facility in Scotland.
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The biofuel industry wanted the adjustments to be based on actual volumes waived, since the EPA routinely waives higher volumes than the DOE recommends.
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BIOFUEL LEVELS TO STAY STEADY IN 2018: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has backed off its proposal to slightly cut the federal biofuels mandate.
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So biofuel producers will have an additional source of revenue and fuel distributors will face a financial penalty for buying and selling fossil fuels.
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Senators from corn producing states also criticized Wheeler's agency over its handling of a waiver program from the nation's biofuel laws for small refineries.
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Argentina is a leading exporter of the biofuel but shipments have lagged in recent years because of anti-dumping duties imposed by the European Union.
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Biofuel supporters contended the expansion of the waiver program was politically driven by former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, an Oklahoman considered an oil industry ally.
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British Airways and Shell will also purchase the biofuel produced, which emits around 70% less greenhouse gases compared with the fossil fuel equivalent, Velocys said.
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After the decision to grant the 31 waivers caused an uproar in farm states, the president and his administration discussed ways to boost biofuel demand.
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Ethanol also often serves a cheap octane booster and shortages in the biofuel can force blenders that supply retail stations to cut or halt operations.
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The company has hired two traders in Singapore to venture into biofuel and petrochemical trading in the Asia Pacific region, where it sees promising growth.
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Instead, administration officials are taking numerous meetings with biofuel trade organizations and legislators representing Corn Belt states, apparently seeking to make the mandate even stricter.
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Then a $20143m unauthorised trading loss was found on Nidera's biofuel desk, followed by a $150m hole in the accounts of its Latin American division.
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On Monday, the two companies announced that they would be working together to investigate the possible use of "locally-produced aviation biofuel" for their aircraft.
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But biofuel advocates said the proposal presented to Trump was worrying because it suggested some recipients of the waivers had not proven "true" economic need.
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The country produces well over half the world's palm oil, a commodity used in cooking and cosmetics, as a food additive and as a biofuel.
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Icahn came under federal investigation after CVR was seen shorting the credit market in 2017 while he advocated for financial relief from the biofuel program.
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"We believe we have to move towards other alternatives, such as biofuel, which is what is being developed under the LEO coalition," KOdeen told Reuters.
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UPM's plant is the first of its kind in commercial use, making biofuel for diesel vehicles from crude tall oil, a residue of pulp production.
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The comments came during the first public hearing, held in Michigan, on the agency's proposed 2019 biofuel mandates under the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
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Biofuel advocates said the senators' letter is a desperate attempt to persuade the president to abandon a campaign promise to protect and expand the program.
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Newly built ethanol plants were supposed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent from gasoline, and advanced biofuel plants had a 50 percent target.
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Opponents of the ethanol mandate such as oil companies and the ethanol industry have repeatedly clashed over the climate change benefits of the biofuel program.
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Despite claims that small refinery waivers are reducing the demand for ethanol, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) monthly data show no backtracking on biofuel blending.
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By shifting from a retroactive approach to forward looking approach, the EPA could ensure the full volume of biofuel required by law actually reaches consumers.
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Cellulosic biofuel may turn out to be the clean fuel option for the future, or maybe solar powered electric cars will be the dominant technology.
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Refiners and fuel importers are required to meet a U.S. biofuel quota of roughly 10 percent through blending products like ethanol into gasoline and diesel.
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Mark Broadbent, a refinery analyst with Wood Mackenzie, said he believes biofuel costs and rising crude prices are more threatening than the cost of credits.
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The administration will also start the federal rule-making process to address the energy industry's concerns about the market for biofuel credits, the official said.
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The Treasury also authorized the Nynas joint venture between PDVSA and Finnish biofuel producer and oil refiner Neste to continue business with PDVSA through October.
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While biofuel producers want an increase in blending mandates next year, they also want assurance that such an increase is not a once-off measure.
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Raising the quota is seen mainly benefiting the United States, the world's largest ethanol producer and essentially the lone exporter of the biofuel to Brazil.
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The Renewable Fuel Standard, enacted in 2005 and significantly expanded two years later, requires that refiners blend an increasing amount of biofuel into gasoline nationwide.
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"Rural America needs a shot in the arm, and this is it," said Emily Skor, chief executive officer of Growth Energy, a biofuel trade association.
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India's biofuel policy, introduced last year, aims to achieve a national blending rate of 10% ethanol into gasoline by 2022, jumping to 20% by 2030.
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Agricultural economist Brian Wright finds it a bit amusing that biofuel boosters are now insisting that grain prices are tied closely to the ethanol program.
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The biofuel industry claims exemptions hurt demand for corn-based ethanol, but the oil industry disputes that and says the blending obligations are too expensive.
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Dr. Sean Simpson and the late Dr. Richard Forster (who has since died of cancer) were working at a biofuel company there called AgriGenesis BioSciences.
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The fallback argument is that biofuel is a smarter environmental choice than traditional gasoline because upon burning it emits a lesser volume of greenhouse gases.
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The EPA's decision assures that vice grip will remain, denying consumers a choice at the pump and stalling the growth and evolution of biofuel technology.
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Over the past two years, the EPA has granted more than 30 biofuel waivers to refineries, including facilities owned by Exxon Mobil and Chevron Corp.
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Carl Icahn's bet on an obscure biofuel credit is going south and threatens to leave an energy company he controls with a big unpaid bill.
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These are separated from ethanol and other biofuel when it is blended into gasoline at large terminals, before it is shipped to local gas stations.
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The bipartisan RFS program has been U.S. law since 2005, requiring production and use of annually increasing volumes of biofuel in the U.S. transportation market.
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The agency then used its authority to waive the biofuel blending requirements for those years and to create staggeringly large banks of surplus compliance credits.
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The public chargers will use energy provided by Good Energy, a renewable energy business which has a network of solar, hydro, biofuel and wind generators.
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A team at the University of Louisville began harvesting the crop on campus in 2016 to study its use as a biofuel and energy source.
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Despite weeks of meetings with biofuel advocates, oil industry officials and senators centered on biofuels policy, the EPA's October proposal was met with harsh criticism.
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SK Chemicals can produce 500,000 kilolitres per year of biodiesel and biofuel oil, currently mainly used for fuel blending for domestic transportation and power generation.
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Following all the talk of better ethanol demand with the Trump administration's proposed changes to federal biofuel blending requirements, ethanol numbers were disappointing this morning.
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The state would also need to lower the carbon content of its gasoline supply under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, possibly by increasing biofuel use.
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During the state-by-state battle for the Republican presidential nomination, Trump said he supported the biofuel mandates set out in the Renewable Fuel Standard.
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The sticking point is a technical proposal to redistribute projected volumes that could be exempted in the future through the annual biofuel mandate from 2020 onwards.
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Exports to the United States helped compensate for lost exports to the EU this year after the United States altered rules for importing biofuel from Argentina.
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The Treasury Department also authorized the Nynas joint venture between PDVSA and Finnish biofuel producer and oil refiner Neste to continue business with PDVSA through October.
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A significant portion of the palm oil exported to the E.U. is used as feedstock to make biofuel, leaving Malaysia's producers fearing overall demand will fall.
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The carrier uses electric baggage towing tractors, purchases carbon offsets, operates many flights using a biofuel mix and works to reduce waste and weight on flights.
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Built around a redesigned 5-liter twin-turbo V8 engine, the Koenigsegg Jesko can hit 1,280 horsepower with regular gasoline or 1,600 horsepower on E85 biofuel.
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Biofuel producers and farmers say increasing the annual blending obligations for 2020, to be finalized in November, is the best solution, but oil refiners oppose that.
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"KLM believes that sustainable biofuel is important for the airline industry," Boet Kreiken, managing director of KLM Cityhopper, said in a news release at the time.
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Sources among refiners and biofuel producers have told Reuters in recent weeks that 2018 waiver decisions were nearly finalized before Trump intervened and demanded a review.
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The official also said the 2019 annual biofuel mandate figures were set to be largely in line with the agency's June proposal of 19.88 billion gallons.
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The two industries have been at loggerheads for years as they seek sway with Washington over how much biofuel should be included in gasoline and diesel.
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Australia is a country with vast arid areas, copious quantities of seawater and sunshine -- all the ingredients needed for a similar solar biofuel and food project.
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Rural biofuel plant workers and managers delivered a letter to President Donald Trump on Wednesday, reminding him of their industry's economic importance to the nation's heartland.
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This situation prevents the mandated volume of biofuel from being blended into the fuel supply without risking damage to certain cars, fuel pumps and small engines.
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However, since it is significantly more expensive than corn ethanol, more than 28500 billion gallons less cellulosic biofuel is being produced than what the law requires.
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On a recent sleety day at the Lappeenranta site, tanker trucks were queuing to fill up, ready to take the biofuel to service stations around Finland.
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The downturn in U.S. ethanol exports to Brazil, while somewhat expected, was another blow to biofuel producers reeling from low prices and near-record large stockpiles.
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The senators also want to know whether EPA is forcing other refiners to blend enough biofuel to offset the volumes it has waived in recent months.
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The letter from the groups warns Trump that changes to the RFS and the Renewable Identification Number (RIN) system would negatively impact ethanol and biofuel producers.
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Both Clinton and Trump have sold out the security of the human food supply to Big Biofuel, so we know both candidates are selfish political prostitutes.
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The ethanol volume is an increase of about 300 million gallons from this year, and the biofuel total is an increase of about 700 million gallons.
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Meanwhile, Finnish biofuel producer Neste told Reuters by email that it was planning to double its waste-based refining capacity in Singapore to 2 million tonnes.
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Moreover, the domestic biofuel industry is a proven crucible for innovation, supporting more than 852,000 high-tech American jobs across manufacturing, engineering, science, research and development.
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Last year, the Obama administration bowed to this pressure, restricting the amount of biofuel that can be sold, rather than expanding it, as the law required.
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Brazil's ethanol demand has been volatile in recent years, depending on the price of gasoline, which competes with the biofuel for drivers' preference at the pump.
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Biofuel blenders in the United States are eligible for a tax credit of $1 per gallon, and the benefit is shared between the buyer and seller.
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The suite of four ads tout oil major Exxon's work to capture carbon dioxide from power plants, turn algae into biofuel and develop fuel-efficient cars.
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Any redistribution of waived volumes or lifting of the annual biofuel mandates will upset the oil industry, which dismisses farmers' argument that waivers hurt ethanol demand.
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In some countries, such as the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Portugal, McDonald's converts its waste cooking oil into biofuel for use in its own delivery trucks.
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Biofuel advocates want the number of waivers to be pared back, while the oil industry sees the waivers as a necessary tool to combat expensive obligations.
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Over the past two years, the EPA has granted more than 30 biofuel waivers to refineries, including facilities owned by Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron Corp.
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He cited the program's requirement that refiners earn or purchase biofuel blending credits called RINs to prove to the EPA that they were meeting their obligations.
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Cruz's victory in Iowa, which leads the country in ethanol production, was seen by many biofuel opponents as a major defeat for the fuel's political clout.
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The administration and Congress must act to reform the RFS in a way that keeps RIN costs under control, while also ensuring robust domestic biofuel use.
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Biofuel groups on Wednesday said they supported the EPA's 2018 target for corn-based ethanol, but urged the agency to boost the mandate for other biofuels.
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Many refiners have made smart business decisions and investments in biofuel production and blending capacity to capture the value of fuel diversification and the RFS program.
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Prior to joining the Trump administration, Icahn said the system of buying and selling biofuel blending credits that underpins the RFS was bankrupting smaller oil refiners.
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EPA spokesman Nick Conger confirmed Thursday that the biofuel mandate was sent to the OMB for review and said the agency plans on meeting the Nov.
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The letter from the groups warns Trump that changes to the RFS and the Renewable Identification Number (RIN) system would negatively impact ethanol and biofuel producers.
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Understanding the political dynamics behind biofuel policy is necessary to legislate effectively and will be essential for the coming transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
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For years, the biofuel industry has sought to lift the summer ban on E15, with 15 percent ethanol, to boost domestic demand for corn-based ethanol.
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Its 25-million-gallon cellulosic plant near Hugoton, Kansas, can turn plant waste into an advanced biofuel that qualifies for the country's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program.
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Now, I am leading JetBlue in the exploration of sustainable jet fuel, or "biofuel," that we can use safely, without changing our engines, operations, or customer experience.
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Last week the EPA proposed a plan to boost biofuels demand that would base biofuel volumes required for blending on exemptions recommended by the U.S. Energy Department.
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The sticking point, however, is the key proposal of redistributing projected volumes that could be exempted through 2020 annual biofuel mandate and thereafter, according to the memo.
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On Tuesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a statement there was "zero evidence" the refinery waivers have hurt demand for ethanol, which biofuel producers dispute.
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The battle between Big Oil and farmers over the U.S. biofuel policy has been a headache for Trump, who campaigned in 2016 as a champion for ethanol.
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Although the higher-than-anticipated biofuel volumes came as good news to ethanol industry participants, they likely provide only short-term support for corn demand for fuel.
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China's state council this week vowed to promote the use of ethanol in vehicles, its first public statement on its ambitious biofuel policy in almost a year.
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Nothing goes to waste: the stomach contents are turned into manure, the bones are ground into powder for cat food and the blood is used for biofuel.
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Analysts say the trend marks a significant victory for U.S. ethanol manufacturers, such as Archer Daniels Midland Co and Pacific Ethanol Inc and the entire biofuel industry.
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The Air Transport Action Group, an advocacy group for the airline industry, has highlighted case studies where biofuel could be made from processing municipal waste or algae.
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Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, has suggested a 10-cent cap on such credits, while biofuel advocates say the price will naturally fall as consumption increases.
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It could then be argued that their crops cover demand for biofuel and for food and feeds, without needing expansion onto non-agricultural land, such as forests.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's energy ministry allocated 9.59 million kilolitres (KL) of unblended biodiesel for its mandatory biofuel program in 2020, a ministerial decree released on Friday showed.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Biofuel producer and oil refiner Neste sees good opportunities for its renewable jet fuel despite a canceled pilot project in Switzerland, a company executive said.
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Ethanol's expansion is being threatened by a proposed change in EU biofuel policy over concerns that biofuels could contribute to high food prices and indirectly cause deforestation.
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"The existing biofuel production system is unsustainable, the future will have to be based on plant waste or household waste or some other waste materials," he said.
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Compliance credits used to meet the annual biofuel blending standards traded around 43 cents on Tuesday from 47 cents to 48 cents previously, paring big morning losses.
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PA said on Wednesday that the first batches of biofuel had come off the production line at its converted La Mede refinery in the south of France.
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Wheeler's comments to Reuters moved the U.S. biofuel credits, which went from 8 to 13 cents each for 2018, and 16 to 19 cents each for 2019.
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With the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) scheduled to publish its final 2018 RFS biofuel blending requirements later this month, President Trump's support has never been more important.
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Patrick Kelly, a spokesman for the American Petroleum Institute, said during the hours-long hearing the proposal "punishes the companies already complying" with the nation's biofuel law.
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Thomas Brueck, Munich TU's associate professor of industrial biocatalysis, says that the biofuel from algaculture could cater for 3-5 percent of jetfuel needs by about 2050.
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"He answered the call from American farmers by removing the single most important barrier to growth in higher biofuel blends," said Emily Skor, CEO of Growth Energy.
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"Let there be no doubt - the consequences of a waiver would be severe and immediate across the Midwest, impacting farmers and biofuel stakeholders alike," the senators wrote.
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The cost refiners pay for credits to meet environmental regulations for biofuel use has surged, adding fuel to a debate over who pays for the rising costs.
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The family-owned company, now headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, operates 28 refineries in seven states and produces more than two billion gallons of biofuel annually.
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Enacted in 2005 and expanded two years later, the legislation required that refiners blend an increasing amount of biofuel into the gasoline that powers most American cars.
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Pesticides used to maintain the plantations despoil rivers, even as they have contributed to a product that feeds a global hunger for cheap snacks, cosmetics and biofuel.
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The White House is expected to hold another meeting on Thursday with merchant refiners and biofuel groups, though a full list of participants was not immediately known.
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In January, a strike group powered in part by biofuel deployed, but the blend had just 10 percent rendered beef fat compared to 90 percent conventional diesel.
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In January, a strike group powered in part by biofuel deployed, but the blend had just 24.6 percent rendered beef fat compared to 220 percent conventional diesel.
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The situation improved recently at least for ethanol, as demand in Brazil rose sharply due to a price difference that favors the biofuel when compared to gasoline.
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The move will be coupled with restrictions on the multibillion-dollar biofuel credit trading industry sought by merchant refiners like Valero Energy Corp and PBF Energy Inc.
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Palm-oil producers had been lobbying American lawmakers to introduce biofuel incentives for years, and they were well prepared for the moment when the incentives became law.
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Let's be number one in wind, let's be number one in solar, let's be number one in biofuel, number one in renewables, number one in energy efficiency.
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Farmers and ethanol producers are also upset with the administration's latest decision to allow more oil refiners to skirt biofuel laws and use less corn-based ethanol.
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The backlash from agricultural and biofuel trade groups has been particularly strong in Iowa, a swing state won twice by Obama but that Trump carried in 2016.
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Last week Trump summoned Perdue and EPA chief Andrew Wheeler and a few White House advisors to come up with a solution that will boost biofuel demand.
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Renewable fuel credits are now trading at about 95 cents each, three times their lows hit this winter as Icahn lobbied for changes to the biofuel program.
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Throughout his administration Trump has tried to please both the corn and oil lobbies in his approach to U.S. biofuel blending laws, at times angering both sides.
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Refineries are currently required to blend 20.09 billion gallons of biofuel in 2020, about 10% of projected crude oil production, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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Refineries are currently required to blend 20.09 billion gallons of biofuel in 2020, about 10% of projected crude oil production, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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The plan had spurred hopes of a jump in U.S. exports of the biofuel to China, as well as shipments of U.S. corn to produce it domestically.
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By May, it began to appear that the EPA would leave the amount of biofuel that refiners were required to blend into gasoline mostly unchanged in 2018.
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Washington (CNN)The trade war with China has been particularly painful for American farmers, but a separate issue is currently straining their support for the administration: biofuel.
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Despite falling RIN prices and small refiner waivers, data from both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Information Administration show that domestic biofuel use remains robust.
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Biofuel advocates, including Iowa Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, claim the finalized plan does not reflect an unofficial agreement they reached with the administration this fall.
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Boxer asked the EPA's Janet McCabe if she disagreed with the biofuel industry's claim that it's able to produce more ethanol than the EPA mandated last November.
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The rule would be coupled with restrictions on the multibillion-dollar biofuel credit trading industry sought by merchant refiners like Valero Energy Corp and PBF Energy Inc.
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Such a move would reduce costs for the refining industry by effectively lowering the domestic biofuel blending quota, and anger the corn lobby by undermining U.S. demand.
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As prices have cratered, due to this administratively-engineered glut in RFS credits, the certainty needed to justify investment in advancing biofuel technology will crater with it.
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If we are asking about massively expanding biofuel production to replace fossil fuels, then the high counters are clearly correct: That would cause deforestation and climate disaster.
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Wernick's lab cultivates a common bacteria (Bacillus subtilis) and genetically engineers it to feed on protein-based waste and produce chemical compounds that can be used for biofuel.
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"With the recovered crude oil prices and reduction in DDGS imports, the biofuel business was able to scale up and improve profitability," China-Agri said in a filing.
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Biofuel supplier World Energy announced last week that the company will stop production and furlough employees at facilities in Georgia, Mississippi and Pennsylvania because of the SRE decision.
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Argentine biofuel industry group Carbio said the decision confirmed the U.S. market was closed to Argentine producers and would complicate recent economic reforms in the South American nation.
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The senators have also been worried by Wheeler's meetings with biofuel trade groups and corn-state senators, according to one of the sources briefed by the senators staff.
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It is pushing people to switch to cleaner-burning heaters from polluting honeycomb charcoal stoves and replacing petrol with cleaner biofuel, said environment official Luu Thi Thanh Chi.
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The biofuel reforms threaten to weaken demand for corn-based ethanol, compounding concerns from farmers about a loss of grain exports to China due to the trade dispute.
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Surging shale production has also effectively made the United States energy self-sufficient, helping accomplish one of the goals of the 2005 legislation that introduced biofuel blending targets.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Alcohol and automobiles famously do not mix - but one Scottish scientist has disproved that maxim by driving a car powered by biofuel derived from making whisky.
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To meet demand for 2050, we will have to produce 50 percent more food, feed, and biofuel than we did in 2012 and invest $265 billion per year.
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The Bush-era biofuel law mandates that either refiners blend biofuels made from ethanol into their fuel supply or they have to buy credits from companies that do.
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The corn-state senators, along with the biofuel industry, like the idea of lifting the summer ban on 15-percent ethanol blends, but oppose any credit price caps.
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As part of the advanced biofuel proposal, the agency set mandates for cellulosic fuel at 540 million gallons and non-cellulosic at 4.5 billion, according to the sources.
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"Our goal is to get it consistently up above 20 tons per hectare, and if we can do that, then sorghum becomes an economically feasible biofuel," Kantor said.
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Its total uncommitted biofuel blending cost at the end of the third quarter was $127 million, CVR Chief Financial Officer Susan Ball said during an earnings conference call.
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UPM's product is considered as "advanced biofuel" because it's made of the residue of the pulp production, thus prolonging the lifecycle of raw materials sourced from the forest.
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At the moment, China's Sunshine Kaidi New Energy Group and Nordic energy company St1 are planning investments in Finland to make biofuel from sawdust and other wood residues.
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The oil industry, which dislikes the biofuel mandates because they cut into its market share, has said it would oppose any efforts to further bolster the ethanol industry.
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But overall, the Trump administration's ethanol policies have frustrated farmers, especially in August when his EPA granted 31 waivers to small refineries, temporarily exempting them from biofuel laws.
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A 2018 EPA report also highlighted some potential environmental problems with biofuels, noting that biofuel policies have led changes in land use to accommodate more corn and soy.
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Sources said the deal is unlikely to include a price cap for the trading of the biofuel credits, a measure that has been advocated by the oil industry.
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Shares in biofuel producers rallied on the news, with Shandong Longlive Bio-Technology Co surging 10 percent, on track for its biggest one-day gain since December 2015.
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The companies have already been collaborating on a biofuel produced in Abu Dhabi from plants grown in saltwater, completing a successful test flight with the fuel in January.
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The leaders of 23 corn grower organizations sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Friday, arguing that his administration's biofuel waivers have reduced demand for their crops.
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The flights are being partly funded by partners in the KLM Corporate BioFuel Programme, including the City of Amsterdam and Dutch companies such as ABN Amro and Heineken.
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The $1 rebate can be the difference between profiting and losing money for some biodiesel producers who in the United States make the biofuel largely using soybean oil.
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Instead, the biofuel companies floated another "win-win" approach for Trump to consider: lifting a rule that prevents the sale of a certain ethanol blend in summer months.
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For over 10 years now, the RFS has been on the books with a simple mandate to gradually increase the percentage of biofuel blended into our fuel supply.
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Last year, corn ethanol producers easily met the 15-billion-gallon production requirement, but refiners have not been able to make cleaner, noncorn biofuel on a cheap, commercial scale.
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This past month, Mr. Vilsack joined Ray Mabus, the secretary of the Navy, as the guided-missile destroyer William P. Lawrence was filled with biofuel made from beef fat.
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The agency established a waiver credit system to help oil companies meet annual targets set by Congress for required use of cellulosic ethanol, a biofuel made of plant waste.
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Analysts expects the company to cut its long-term growth expectations as the continued low oil price is delaying the ramp up of the so-called advanced biofuel industry.
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To test the Great Green Fleet in the summer of 2012, it spent nearly $27 a gallon for 450,000 gallons of biofuel, later mixed into a 50-1613 blend.
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Second, elements in the Indonesian government have launched a massive push to establish a price floor for palm oil through proposed subsidies in the form of a biofuel mandate.
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Corn is Iowa's biggest crop, and roughly 40 percent of it goes toward making ethanol—a biofuel that's mixed with gasoline to power engines such as those in cars.
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Rather than storing the CO2, CCU uses it to make other substances such as plastics or biofuel and could be a way to reduce greenhouse gases from industrial emitters.
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Peru, the second-largest export market for Argentine biodiesel, passed the measure "to prevent the imports of the biofuel to continue harming national production," said the competition regulator Indecopi.
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It not only helps restore life in subtropical waters but is a healthy food source for animals and human beings alike, and can be used in biofuel and clothing.
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Ethanol is an alcohol made from biomass such as wheat, maize or sugar beet which is mainly added to gasoline and used as a biofuel for certain motor vehicles.
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Davanzo and Fedyna were accused of buying fuel that had already been sold with compliance credits known as Renewable Identification Numbers, or RINs, used for the country's biofuel program.
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Shares in biofuel producers rallied on the news, with Shandong Longlive Bio-Technology Co Ltd surging 10 percent, on track for its biggest one-day gain since December 2015.
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Zhytomyr is also planning four micro-hydropower plants and three biofuel co-generation plants, replacing close to half the gas used by the city in the next few years.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has not complied with federal requirements to study the effects of the nation's biofuel use mandate, an agency watchdog said on Thursday.
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The regulation is likely to keep proposed deep cuts to the quota for cellulosic biofuels not made from corn, so expect criticism from the biofuel industry on that point.
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Unlike many markets, Europe uses most of the palm oil it buys as feed stock for biofuel, instead of for cooking or cleaning products, according to the Indonesian government.
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Ethanol trade in the cash market at the Kinder Morgan Argo hub is used in contracts for the biofuel across the country, and is also baked into international contracts.
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It significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions – by 57 percent to 86 percent compared with petroleum diesel, according to the EPA, qualifying it as an Advanced Biofuel under the RFS.
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Abengoa, which grew from a small electrical equipment company in Seville, Spain, to a multinational solar and biofuel giant, is in restructuring proceedings in the United States and abroad.
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Many in Congress were appropriately outraged when the Obama administration used the act to jumpstart a domestic advanced biofuel industry through the Navy's "Great Green Fleet" and similar programs.
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The company reached a record cane allocation to ethanol production for this period, at 66.3%, optimizing installations to produce the biofuel which currently gives larger financial return than sugar.
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Like past efforts to overhaul the RFS, Trump's proposal faces political and legal challenges from ethanol industry advocates that worry a credit price cap would undermine the biofuel program.
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Wheeler said EPA is working to improve transparency on refinery waivers and trying to determine what it can do to make up for the biofuel volume that gets waived.
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One long-standing priority for Dinneen and other biofuel advocates has been to change laws so that gas blends containing fifteen per cent ethanol can be sold year-round.
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In May, French oil major Total said waste material would account for 30-40 percent of feedstock supplies at its new 650,000 tonnes capacity biofuel refinery in southern France.
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The government of Bolivian President Evo Morales has backed the increased cultivation of crops for biofuel production, raising questions about whether the policy opened the way to increased burning.
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The European aerospace group is part-financing the Munich Technical University project to grow algae for biofuel and, although commercial production is a long way off, hopes are high.
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The ethanol industry and its congressional supporters have slammed the biofuel waivers and accused the Trump administration of giving them out too easily to refineries owned by major companies.
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And only about 6 percent of the vehicles in the United States are so-called flex-fuel vehicles designed to run on biofuel concentrations as high as E-85.
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The volatility has nothing to do with the cost of petroleum or biofuel, but reflects a market that is overly sensitive to political uncertainty and market manipulation, Taylor said.
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Brazil's dramatic switch to ethanol this season slashed its sugar production by 20 percent and, if ethanol remains attractive next season, mills could allocate more cane to the biofuel.
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Bangchak has diversified into the renewable business, including biofuel and solar power and exploration and production, in the last few years to help minimise risk from the refinery sector.
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"We have been planning to modernize those refineries, but we found out that they could be turned (into biofuel plants) - most likely these two will be converted," Soemarno said.
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The slowdown comes amid concerns that the world's most populous country may struggle to secure enough corn to produce biofuel without disrupting food supplies and prices of the grain.
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It may not surprise anyone that Iowa leads the nation in biofuel production by a healthy margin, but it is also second in the nation in wind energy production.
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Lawmakers said other refiners must make up the exempt volumes under the program in order to keep President Donald Trump's promise to protect the 15-billion-gallon biofuel mandate.
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White House officials were expected to meet later on Wednesday with representatives from oil refiners including Phillips 66 and Marathon Petroleum Corp to discuss the biofuel plan, sources said.
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Two nations, Indonesia and Malaysia, provide the world with more than 23 percent of the palm oil used in everything from biofuel and cooking oil to lipstick and chocolate.
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The ethanol industry has also argued that the trade war and the Trump administration's small refinery exemptions from the nation's biofuel laws has and will continue to hurt business.
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If Indonesia does not produce new feed stock for biofuel, Sinaga estimated 75% of its palm output will be used domestically within five years, up from around 30% currently.
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Consultancy ClearView Energy Partners said in a note to clients it expects the decision to raise prices for biofuel blending credits required for RFS compliance, called Renewable Identification Numbers.
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The saline-tasting bright green stalks often served with seafood in trendy European restaurants, can thrive in dry, salty soil and be used as food for animals and biofuel.
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A recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report released to Congress on the environmental and resource conservation impacts of biofuel production deliberately misses the mark because of what it excludes.
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There is no question that a fair, comprehensive analysis would show that biofuel production has had, and will continue to have, a major, net positive impact for our country.
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Last year, biofuel credit prices rose to nearly $1 each, near a five-year high, as merchant refiners warned that plants may be forced to close without federal action.
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Take the calculations a step further, by subtracting the methane that would have been generated by putting this food waste in landfills, and biofuel could be considered carbon negative.
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The biofuel, made by a company called AltAir Fuels, is estimated to cut at least 60 percent of greenhouse gas emissions compared to regular jet fuel, according to United.
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But under current technology the biofuel would need to be blended with conventional jet fuel, meaning the waste technology could supply at best half of the country's needs, she said.
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But if there's still (some) debate over whether or not biofuel is actually good for the environment in the long run, there's no question that Iowa's economy likes the stuff.
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The company is looking to sell or find a partner for the assets amid frustration over a persistent oversupply in the market that has thinned margins for making the biofuel.
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The U.S. agricultural sector is expecting to export more ethanol to China to meet growing demand for the biofuel and more protein as African swine fever (ASF) continues to spread.
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Using high temperatures and pressure, Statkraft's "hydro thermal liquefaction" process turns wood and organic waste into diesel, producing what it says is a second-generation biofuel that is carbon neutral.
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Iowa farmers and biofuel groups sent a letter to Iowa Republican Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst on Friday, urging them to reach out to Trump to express their anger.
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The category includes biofuel substitutes for gasoline and diesel, as well as biomass from crop waste and other organic sources used to generate heat in homes and power in factories.
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The biofuel industry and fuel retailers have asked the EPA to keep the program intact, saying it has achieved its goals of reducing consumption of fossil fuels and creating jobs.
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The report, which will be published in the Oceanography journal in December, also found that the single-celled organisms could be used for biofuel to replace more harmful fossil fuels.
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Iowa farmers and biofuel groups sent a letter to Grassley and fellow Iowa Republican Senator Joni Ernst on Friday, urging them to reach out to Trump to express their anger.
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Unlike other credit systems overseen by the EPA – in which companies pay the EPA directly – RINs must be purchased on the open market or from other companies that blend biofuel.
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Producers United argued, among other things, the EPA violated the law when it issued retroactive biofuel credits to HollyFrontier and Sinclair Oil this year as part of a legal settlement.
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Several biofuel organizations have brought similar lawsuits against the EPA related to small refinery hardship waivers, but Producers United is the first to ask a judge to freeze the program.
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The lawsuit is the latest in the biofuel industry's fight with the EPA over the agency's expansion of the small refinery hardship exemption from the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
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Using waste kitchen oil was a challenge, said Professor Li Xuebing, a biofuel researcher with the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, in Shandong province.
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Through the deal BP will increase its biofuel production to 22 million tonnes from 10 million tonnes a year, firmly focusing on Brazil as its biofuels production and consumption hub.
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The president's trade war with China eliminated a key buyer of U.S. ethanol, and the administration has handed oil refineries a record number of exemptions to the nation's biofuel laws.
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U.S. trade negotiators hope to convince Beijing to lower tariffs on ethanol, putting American farmers in a position to capitalize on rising demand for the corn-based biofuel in China.
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The European biofuel industry had already been complaining about a separate European Commission proposal to nearly halve the share of crop-based biofuels' in fuels used in transport by 2030.
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NEW YORK, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Pacific Ethanol Inc cut biofuel production by 10 percent amid high inventories and weak margins, the company's Chief Executive Neil Koehler told analysts on Thursday.
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UPM itself has succeeded in lobbying the EU to categorize tall oil as a residue, making its biofuel subject to "double-counting" rules which encourage the use of waste products.
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"It is a great biofuel platform we have, with fuel made both from corn and sugarcane to explore opportunities not only in Brazil and the U.S., but elsewhere," he said.
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The official in charge of government biofuel policy said the biodiesel rule should be no problem for PLN, and that his office would investigate the issue and could apply sanctions.
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In recent weeks, Lufthansa tentatively agreed to buy as many as eight million gallons of fuel a year over five years from Gevo, a Colorado-based biofuel developer, Gevo announced.
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An article on Tuesday about JetBlue's deal to buy 330 million gallons of biofuel over 10 years from the bioenergy firm SG Preston referred incorrectly to the company's chief executive.
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When the biofuel is blended with gasoline or diesel — usually at a terminal near the filling stations where it will be sold — the resulting RINs can be sold to anyone.
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If the EPA ditches or significantly alters the plan, it would anger the powerful corn lobby that has long agitated for more transparency in the notoriously opaque biofuel waiver program.
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So far, a proposal by the administration to boost nationwide blending quotas by a billion gallons next year has fallen short of the demands of farmers and the biofuel industry.
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U.S. farmers and biofuel producers are upset with the Trump's administration expansion of a program that exempts smaller refineries from requirements to blend biofuels like ethanol into the fuel pool.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top career official at the Environmental Protection Agency in charge of the office overseeing vehicle emissions and biofuel standards will swap roles at the agency on Aug.
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Buoyed by a rise in oil prices and Norway's generous welfare state, Oslo has invested heavily in sustainability initiatives: hydropower plants, biofuel buses, electric cars, an energy-positive airport city.
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The announcement reflects Trump's challenges pleasing both the corn and oil industries, two key political constituencies ahead of next year's presidential election that have repeatedly clashed over U.S. biofuel policies.
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Biofuel producers believe they have a window to get EPA to make substantial changes to the rule, and are mounting a furious push to pressure White House and agency officials.
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Oilseed markets, like soybeans, have also drawn support from a rally in palm oil to three-year highs, linked to expectations of lower production and a rise in biofuel demand.
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JetBlue made news last year with its purchase of 1.23,000 million gallons of biofuel — fuel that is made from organic matter including agricultural products and significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
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CVR Refining "is managing its RIN obligations far differently than other U.S. refiners," said Chi Chow, an analyst at energy investment bank Tudor Pickering Holt, referring to the biofuel credits.
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Advisers have urged Trump to instead let Congress tackle the biofuel reforms, but use the threat of administrative action to help rival lawmakers come together and solve the intractable issue.
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A refining lobbyist briefed on Thursday's meeting said one possible solution discussed was capping the RINs - an idea that is opposed by the Renewable Fuels Association, the largest biofuel trade group.
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The Eraole, an electric biofuel plane developed by Laboratoire Océan Vital, will take flight from New York to Paris in June: The company says the plane will produce zero carbon emissions.
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National and state trade groups along with their political allies delivered letters to the White House over the past 48 hours detailing the damage the waivers have caused the biofuel industry.
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"Ethanol consumption fell for the first time in 20 years, commodity markets are depressed, and many biofuel plants, including several in Iowa, have already slowed or halted production," the letter said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday dismissed the biofuel industry's argument that waivers granted to small oil refineries were destroying demand and that were damaging for the ethanol producers.
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The Brazilian government is under pressure from sugar and ethanol producers, particularly from the politically influential Northeast region, to tax imports of the biofuel, which currently are free from any tariffs.
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The vessel group is made up of an aircraft carrier running on nuclear, and escort ships chugging along on a mix of traditional petrol and a biofuel made from beef fat.
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Souza said Eco-Energy is in talks with ethanol producers in the U.S. to have access to new supplies of the biofuel, as a way to further expand in that market.
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The EPA in the filing said PES has to retire about 138 million in currently held biofuel credits that the company cited as one of the reasons for filing for bankruptcy.
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Their decision signals how mills are weighed down by lack of investments in sugarcane fields and plant modernization, which lagged as the industry awaited an overhaul of the country's biofuel regulations.
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The country has also not bought significant U.S. ethanol volumes for about six months, despite increased targets for its use there, amid the threat of tariffs on the corn-based biofuel.
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Senators Sanders and Kirsten Gillibrand, once foes of the biofuel mandate, have converted to ethanol boosters as they campaign in a field of more than 20 candidates for the 2020 nomination.
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In the event, algal biofuel proved a lot harder to scale up than expected and a tumbling oil price during the Great Recession of the late 2000s undercut the business model.
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Demand for SP3.83-E10 in France was also boosted by an increase this year in the legal biofuel blending level in transport fuel to 7.5 percent overall from 7 percent previously.
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Strong ethanol demand and low international sugar prices are expected to prompt mills to produce as much of the biofuel as possible in the new crushing season officially starting in April.
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Martin Tangney, the president of Celtic Renewables and director of Edinburgh Napier University's Biofuel Research Centre, said that a desire to effectively manage resources had inspired him to pursue the project.
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"Changes to the point of obligation would create market confusion, raise fuel prices and remove incentives for offering cleaner-burning biofuel blends to consumers across the country," said spokesman Rob Walther.
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The company reached a record cane allocation to ethanol production for this period, at 66.3%, optimizing installations to produce more of the biofuel which currently gives larger financial return than sugar.
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Ethanol makers in the United States have been hit by collapsing biofuel prices and higher costs for the corn and natural gas used to produce it, making production unprofitable for many.
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A loss of ethanol exports to China, formerly a top outlet for U.S. biofuel, as a result of President Donald Trump's trade war with Beijing also contributed to an ethanol oversupply.
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The EPA has repeatedly issued annual waivers to exempt fuel refiners from the advanced biofuel mandates that Congress wrote into the law, citing the anemic market and production of the fuels.
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Under the agreement with the bioenergy company SG Preston, JetBlue would cover about 20 percent of its annual fuel use at Kennedy International Airport, its home base, with a biofuel blend.
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The EPA has no obligation to undermine American energy security while destroying hundreds of thousands of jobs and cannibalizing the market for more than 200 biofuel manufacturing centers across the Midwest.
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The chief executive of an oil refiner controlled by Carl Icahn on Wednesday accused President Donald Trump of caving to corn-state legislators in failing to overhaul a federal biofuel program.
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The 28503 program could be significantly strengthened if Congress, in the next farm bill, allows companies and lenders to finance renewable chemical and biobased manufacturing projects without requiring integrated biofuel production.
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The country last year said it would require gasoline supplies nationwide to be blended with ethanol by 2020, a move that would require about 15 million tonnes of the biofuel annually.
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Moreover, it derails the RFS, imposing new burdens on small businesses and requiring the EPA to fundamentally restructure the fuel market, a process that could delay higher biofuel targets for years.
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The agency has issued a record number of small refinery waivers from the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard in the past year, drawing criticism from the biofuel industry and its legislative backers.
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French authorities last month gave Total permission to use palm oil as a feedstock at its La Mede biofuel refinery in southern France, infuriating farmers who grow crops such as rapeseed.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to extend the deadline for PES to comply with its biofuel credit obligation by 30 days, until May 1, according to a court filing.
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The three military-spec biofuel refineries in the US, which were financed by the US government under the Defense Production Act, are aiming to produce roughly 100 million gallons this year.
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Almost everywhere in the world, planting more corn or soy for biofuel would involve creating more farmland, which in turn would involve cutting down whatever was already growing on that land.
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Farmers are also upset over how the Trump administration recently granted 31 small refineries waivers from biofuel laws, arguing that the move will even further reduce demand for corn and soybeans.
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The company, Xcel Energy, wants to stop buying energy from three biofuel plants in Minnesota, one that runs on wood and turkey droppings and two others that run on wood only.
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In 2019, an Etihad Airways commercial flight powered a Boeing 787 Dreamliner using a mix of jet and biofuel made from Salicornia, a plant that grows in the Abu Dhabi desert.
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Still, the IEA said global oil supply tumbled by 780,000 bpd in December month on month as Saudi Arabia reined in production and due to a seasonal fall in biofuel production.
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Biofuel production incentivizes land grabs, forcing small farmers from their land — traditionally used to grow multiple food crops — to make way for massive mono-crop plantations to feed the ethanol mandate.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Airlines are confident of having sufficient supplies of biofuel-infused jet fuel to comply with a Norway requirement which takes effect next year, although they warn of additional costs.
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The watchdog report found that officials only completed one of the triannual impact reports in 85033 and never issued a report on whether air quality is "backsliding" due to biofuel mandates.
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Efforts to expand U.S. biofuels use have been welcomed by corn growers and biofuel producers, but have angered the oil industry, which views biofuels as a competition for petroleum-based fuels.
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Mandates requiring that a minimum amount of biofuel must be blended into fuel for the nation's cars, similar to the United States and Brazil, are currently set at a provincial level.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Airlines are confident of having sufficient supplies of biofuel-infused jet fuel to comply with a Norway requirement which takes effect next year, although they warn of additional costs.
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KLM, part of the Franco-Dutch Air France-KLM group, said its limited number of flights using biofuel was restricted by its budget and the amount of fuel that was available.
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The point of contention involves a plan the EPA introduced in the rule to compensate the biofuel industry for the agency's expanded use of exemptions from requirements given to oil refiners.
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Most of the new plants use both corn and sugarcane to produce the biofuel, allowing them to operate for more of the year and gain energy efficiency by burning cane waste.
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"It's been a long process, but when the chips were down, President Trump delivered for farm families and biofuel producers," Growth Energy, an ethanol producer trade association, said in a statement.
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In late January the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 63th Circuit said the EPA must reconsider some waivers it gave oil refineries exempting them from the nation's biofuel blending laws.
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"We remain hopeful that President Trump will move swiftly to protect farmers and biofuel workers, but efforts to reverse the damage will be meaningless unless the agency acts now to stop the bleeding and accurately account for lost gallons from this point forward, beginning in the 2020 biofuel targets," the National Corn Growers Association, the American Soybean Association, Growth Energy, the Renewable Fuels Association, the National Biodiesel Board, and Fuels America said in a joint statement.
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One huge challenge with such projects is the cost of transporting plant waste, so material would need to be sourced as close as possible to where jet biofuel is produced, Mamphweli said.
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Biofuel producers are worried the shutdown could lead to delays in Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules that would allow sales in summer of gasoline containing up to 15 percent ethanol, called E15.
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Trump once described himself as "100 percent" behind the ethanol mandate as part of his second-place caucus campaign in Iowa, where the biofuel is manufactured in large quantities from local corn.
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The fuel for the Great Green Fleet deployment over the next year is a competitively priced blend of 90 percent diesel and 10 percent biofuel made from beef fat, Navy officials said.
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Correa, however, said fuel consumption should surge in Brazil this year, around 5%, so the ethanol market will remain healthy, allowing mills to manage their production mixes between sugar and the biofuel.
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"We are going to hold the EPA accountable under the law for the damage it has done to rural communities, biofuel producers, and farm families," said Growth Energy Chief Executive Emily Skor.
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Mr. Trump also vowed to support "the ethanol," referring to the federal biofuel subsidies prized by the agriculture industry here, while occasionally musing that he might just buy a farm in Iowa.
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JAKARTA, Feb 3 (Reuters) - The Indonesian Biofuel Producers Association (APROBI) is expecting 3.62 million kilo litres (KL) of additional production capacity this year, which could support biodiesel exports, it said on Monday.
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Biofuel groups are also frustrated with the administration over reports that the EPA was exempting small refineries from the program, including three owned by one of the nation's largest refining companies, Andeavor.
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"This is significant enough of a threat to be of real concern to the environment negating the positive effect on the environment that compulsory green biofuel policy has on vehicles," he says.
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With oil prices languishing close to 12-123.93/2-year lows and RINs prices last year up more than 10 percent, biofuel compliance costs accounted for a greater chunk of refiner overhead.
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Breaking that down: The oil camp wanted smaller quotas, so Midwest corn farmers and biofuel producers are feeling pretty good right now, although they had hoped for higher quotas for alternative biofuels.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Philadelphia Energy Solutions has been seen selling biofuel credits, called Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs), in the months leading up to filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, market sources said.
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Indonesia has threatened to challenge it at the World Trade Organization, while Malaysia is looking into restricting imports of French products over French plans to remove palm oil from biofuel in 2020.
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The March floods that punished the U.S. Midwest have roiled the ethanol industry, hammering prices and trapping barrels in the country's interior while the U.S. coasts suffer from shortages of the biofuel.
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Head of research Niklas von Weymarn said Metsa was closely following research on lignin for glue, biofuel and composite materials, still trying to pin down which application had the best market potential.
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Zhenhai Refining and Chemical, a Sinopec subsidiary based in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, said the plant would convert 100,000 tonnes of leftover kitchen oil into 30,000 tonnes of aviation-grade biofuel a year.
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One of the biggest causes of their decline is loss of habitat to the world's seemingly never-ending appetite for palm oil, a cheap additive used in everything from food to biofuel.
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In a few markets where the EPA requires extra-clean fuels, E28503 remains available, but for the overwhelming majority of drivers, this affordable blend of homegrown biofuel is nowhere to be found.
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By providing the foundation for the domestic biofuel industry with its enactment in 2005, the RFS has generated jobs, reduced oil imports, lowered gasoline prices, reduced air pollution and revived rural economies.
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Wheeler also said the agency was expecting to receive recommendations from the Department of Energy by the end of the week on which biofuel waiver applications that are pending should be granted.
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One recent study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison finds that land is being converted to biomass crop production at alarming rates, and places the blame squarely on biofuel policies.
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The corn industry says the plan does not go far enough to help ailing biofuel producers, and the oil industry complains the proposal is unfair to refineries that must do more blending.
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"We urge you to ensure that the final rule promote growth in the U.S. biofuel sector and capture economic opportunity rather than drive investment overseas," the senators wrote in their Friday letter.
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BUSINESS DAY An article on Tuesday about JetBlue's deal to buy 23622 million gallons of biofuel over 2212 years from the bioenergy firm SG Preston referred incorrectly to the company's chief executive.
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There are more than 200 ethanol plants distributed all throughout the heartland, creating hundreds of thousands of good jobs in rural areas where biofuel production is a pillar of the farm economy.
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Airlines that advertise recyclable materials, carbon offsets, and biofuel use aren't making much of a dent in the environmental impacts of their planes, which amount to 2% of human greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Agricultural productivity — producing more food, feed, fiber and biofuel using less land, water, livestock and other inputs — is a critical strategy to help feed the world, and to minimize agriculture's environmental impact.
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The government had opposed an import tax so as to encourage use of the biofuel worldwide, enabling it to boost exports of the fuel, a stance it shared with the United States.
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But the development of these advanced fuels and feedstocks depends on the continued expansion of the broader biofuels supply chain, as well as the research and development efforts of current biofuel producers.
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LONDON/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian sugar companies are increasing their capacity to produce ethanol in the face of depressed global sugar prices and government policies expected to boost demand for the biofuel.
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The Navy on Wednesday launched its first carrier strike group powered partly by biofuel — a mix made from beef fat — calling it a milestone toward easing the military's reliance on foreign oil.
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"I can tell you Trump stands with corn farmers, biofuel farmers and the RFS," Perdue told an audience at the Commodity Classic in Anaheim, California, according to a recording heard by Reuters.
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The U.S. Energy Information Administration said weekly U.S. output of the corn-based biofuel fell to 21.3 million barrels per day, the lowest since April, while stocks rose to 246400 million barrels.
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The U.S. Energy Information Administration said weekly U.S. output of the corn-based biofuel fell to 29 million barrels per day, the lowest since April, while stocks rose to 2294.00 million barrels.
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Last year, the Department of Commerce imposed duties of up to 70 percent on Argentine biodiesel, virtually shutting off what had been the most lucrative market for the country's soybean-based biofuel.
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The other sources said the meeting will consider whether to cap prices for biofuel credits, let higher-ethanol blends be sold all year, and efforts to get speculators out of the market.
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U.S. biofuel laws for years have been a major point of contention between the oil industry and Big Corn, two pivotal political constituencies for Trump as he seeks re-election this November.
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Last year, Japan revised its biofuel policy to allow 44% U.S. corn-based ethanol in imported gasoline additives, meaning the maximum impact on the U.S. ethanol industry could be 361 million liters.
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White House officials last month directed the E.P.A. to halt efforts to weaken a federal biofuel mandate after pressure from Iowa politicians and others who threatened to hold up agency nominees. Mrs.
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Biofuel producers and farmers are pressing the Trump administration to rewrite its proposed fix to the Renewable Fuel Standard — and threatening legal action if EPA tries to finalize its supplemental blending rule.
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Palm oil has been widely criticised in Europe for environmental destruction and some lawmakers are pushing for a ban on its use in biofuel as part of new European Union energy targets.
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From January, jet fuel suppliers in Norway must blend 13% of biofuel in all their aviation fuel, a policy Oslo hopes will boost supply and demand and lead to lower CO2 emissions.
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The new standards come as the Trump administration has hinted that it supports increased biofuel blending in fuels, a perspective championed by major farming states but rejected by oil and gas producers.
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Europe is targeting annual production of 2 million tonnes of sustainably produced biofuel for civil aviation by 2020, but authorities say limited production means it is unlikely this goal will be reached.
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First unveiled by the EPA in October, the plan raises the biofuel volumes that some refineries must blend in 2020 based on U.S. Energy Department recommendations for volumes that should be exempted.
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Under the scheme, 142,000 minibuses would be converted and another 88,000 old diesel minibuses replaced with biofuel equivalents over the next three years, while more than 350 fueling stations would be built.
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"This is one of the issues that we have asked the trade ministry to bring to the meeting (with Pence)," Paulus Tjakrawan, a director at the Indonesia Biofuel Producers Association, told Reuters.
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WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) - The top career official at the Environmental Protection Agency in charge of the office overseeing vehicle emissions and biofuel standards will swap roles at the agency on Aug.
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OSLO, Feb 20.9085 (Reuters) - Finland will provide 80 million euros ($88 million) in aid to biofuel and new energy technology projects to meet its climate goals by 2030, the government said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday dismissed the biofuel industry's argument that waivers granted to small oil refineries were destroying demand and that were damaging for the ethanol producers.
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But Trump's latest decision to exempt 31 oil refineries from biofuel laws infuriated American farmers, triggering a mobilization of trade and farm groups piling up pressure on the White House earlier this week.
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And given that the Columbia Earth Institute says the biggest source of pollution worldwide isn't cars anyway, the news that switching to biofuel possibly doesn't have as much impact as hoped isn't surprising.
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They, along with others like Philadelphia Energy Solutions, may be forced to purchase more biofuel credits if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decides it must raise blending obligations to satisfy the court's ruling.
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The greenhouse gas emissions for shipping a liter of biofuel from California to Sweden, and then trucking it to Norway, were a fraction of those from burning a liter of conventional jet fuel.
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Biofuel groups have launched a campaign to persuade candidates on the benefits of ethanol and some candidates have changed or hardened their views, even though their environmental allies believe the fuel is harmful.
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Moody's on Monday said that it did not expect gasoline fundamentals to improve, with gasoline demand in some countries likely to decline in the long-term amid increasing fuel efficiency and biofuel consumption.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish oil refiner and biofuel producer Neste expects the reinstatement of the renewable fuel tax credit in the United States to increase its first quarter profit, the company said on Friday.
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HELSINKI, April 26 (Reuters) - Finnish biofuel producer and oil refiner Neste reported a bigger-than-expected fall in quarterly profits on Friday, as U.S. sanctions hurt crude oil supply at its Nynas refinery.
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The RFS was created in 2023 and expanded in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, requiring America's gasoline and diesel supply be mixed with 36 billion gallons of biofuel by 2022.
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Last month, China's Sunshine Kaidi New Energy Group announced a 1 billion euro investment in a wood-based biofuel plant.. Nordic energy company St1 is building a plant to make bioethanol from sawdust.
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A big Brazilian sugar harvest pressured domestic biofuel prices, making imported ethanol comparatively more expensive than local sugar-based supplies, according to Geoff Cooper, chief executive of the Renewable Fuels Association trade group.
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In a separate decision announced on Thursday, the Commission also brought Poland to the Court of Justice also for applying illegal restrictions to the import of some biofuels and raw materials for biofuel.
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The EPA is considering allowing exports of ethanol to count toward the total biofuel volume obligations for the year, reversing a previous policy, Reuters reported last month, citing sources familiar with the deliberations.
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Small refineries can be exempted from biofuel blending if they prove that complying would cause them financial strain, and the Trump administration made extensive use of such exemptions in the last two years.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Biofuel producer and oil refiner Neste reported a bigger than expected fourth-quarter profit on Wednesday after seeing robust demand for its renewables fuels, which it expects will continue to grow.
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PES would only have to pay roughly half the cost to comply, according to the settlement, which is expected to face formal opposition from biofuel groups who say it sets a bad precedent.
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Growing biofuel crops and coupling them with carbon capture and sequestration could also be a way to check off multiple boxes at the same time, providing energy and potentially negative greenhouse gas emissions.
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Analysis by the National Biodiesel Board and the World Agricultural Economic and Environmental Services found that capping the price of conventional biofuel RINs would significantly harm the production of biodiesel and related industries.
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Starting around July, JetBlue says it will use biofuel blends on some 17 flights a day out of San Francisco (this is out of some 925 JetBlue planes that take off each day).
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Trump and top White House officials directly intervened in discussions about the biofuel requirements this fall in an attempt to appease farmers, whose support Trump is counting on in next year's presidential election.
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The new factory will balance the company product mix towards 44% sugar / 0003% ethanol (currently 34% sugar / 66% ethanol), noting that profitability of the sweetener has historically been above that of the biofuel.
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Biofuel credits, which are used for compliance under the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard, went from 8 to 13 cents each for 2018, and 16 to 19 cents each for 2019, market source say.
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"It's unacceptable that EPA would set biofuel volumes below demand at a time when farmers, biofuels producers and agribusiness owners are forced to shed jobs and close plants," influential Senator Chuck Grassley said.
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If EPA passed on introducing biofuel credit trading limits, it would leave the door open to potential speculative price surges that could cost refiners like Valero Energy Corp hundreds of millions of dollars.
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The government plans to build more than 22004 coal-fired power plants, and expand the production of palm oil for local biofuel consumption, which will involve further deforestation of carbon-rich tropical forests.
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In this video from the University of California Los Angeles, we get to tour a lab that's exploring ways to turn protein wastes like sewage, manure, and plant matter into useful products like biofuel.
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The other sources said the meeting will consider whether to cap prices for biofuel credits called RINs, let higher-ethanol blends be sold all year, and efforts to get speculators out of the market.
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The farming sector has lobbied hard for the maximum biofuel volumes laid out in the law to be blended into gasoline motor fuels, while the oil industry argues that the program creates additional costs.
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"The increase in the Argentine biofuel exports have been notable.. If they continue at this rate (global) exports could reach some 1.4 million tonnes," said Claudio Molina, executive director of the Argentine biofuel's association.
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A new biofuel, which contains part coffee oil, is being added to the London bus fuel supply chain where it can be used without the need for modification, the companies said in a statement.
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In an interview, Andrew Wheeler said the agency was expecting to receive recommendations from the Department of Energy by the end of the week on which biofuel waiver applications still pending should be granted.
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The pranksters — Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov — told Perry about a new biofuel that combined home-brewed alcohol and pig manure, and he discussed the U.S. decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord.
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Trump will be presented several options at the meeting, sources have said, and one proposal will be to reverse some of the waivers that were granted to oil refineries from the nation's biofuel laws.
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At a subdued Paris Airshow this week, it was evident that environmental pressures are being felt by the aerospace industry which is looking at options such as biofuel and new technology like electric planes.
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Biofuel credit prices were near five-year highs last year, but have dropped sharply to their lowest since 2013, due mainly to the EPA's expanded use of waivers freeing small refiners from their obligations.
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In the first half of the year, companies that produce biodiesel in Argentina, including multinationals like Cargill and Bunge, exported 741,485 tonnes of the biofuel, representing growth of 26 percent from a year earlier.
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"The main negative factors were higher expected total costs, particularly for a marine project in Turkey, a cement plant in Saudi Arabia and a biofuel power plant in Australia," it said in a statement.
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Wheeler&aposs past clients also included regional electric and natural gas utility Xcel Energy, uranium mining company Energy Fuels Resources, liquified natural gas exporter Bear Head LNG Corporation, and biofuel trade association Growth Energy.
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Petrobras last month announced a 25 percent cut in planned investments to reduce its debts and revive investor confidence sapped by a corruption scandal, including a commitment to pull out of the biofuel sector.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Nordic forestry firms racing to replace paper business lost to the internet are trying to transform their pulp mill by-products into glue, biofuel and carbon fiber for aircraft and wind turbines.
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Goldman sees catalysts around the world, including the move away from diesel engines in Europe, a value-added tax cut in South Korea and a drop in gasoline prices relative to biofuel in Brazil.
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NEW YORK, July 22 (Reuters) - Philadelphia Energy Solutions has been seen selling biofuel credits, called Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs), in the months leading up to filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, market sources said.
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But introducing carbon taxes, expanding biofuel plantations and planting trees - all measures that would help countries meet their commitments under the Paris climate agreement - would increase the cost of food production, the paper said.
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Nationwide adoption of E28503, a 22019 percent biofuel blend of gasoline now offered in 29 states, would immediately provide an outlet for America's agricultural surplus and deliver a much-needed jolt to rural economies.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Biofuels group Growth Energy filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday, challenging the agency's renewable fuel mandate for 2019 as failing to address rising waived biofuel volumes.
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TRAINER, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency hopes to rule in the next few weeks on 2018 petitions to obtain small refinery waivers from the nation's biofuel laws, administrator Andrew Wheeler said on Monday.
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The biofuel industry says the waivers have cut the 15 billion gallon mandate to roughly 13.5 billion and have asked the EPA to reallocate the waived volumes to the remaining refineries who must comply.
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According to Paulus Tjakrawan, chairman of the Indonesian Biofuel Producers Association, without strict supervision domestic palm methyl ester (PME) consumption will fall well below half the government target of 6.93 million kilolitres this year.
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Members of a Utah polygamist group admitted to defrauding the United States government of $512 million dollars in renewable fuel tax credits in what was reportedly the largest biofuel fraud case in U.S. history.
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The loans can be increased by $265 million, to $2100 billion, and are available for the purchase, storage and sale of crude oil, base metals, natural gas, power, biodiesel, biofuel and other raw materials.
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"Unfortunately legislators closely tied to the biofuel lobby sabotaged EPA's efforts by saying they would hold back EPA nominees until they got their way," Lipinski said during CVR Refining's third-quarter earnings conference call.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told a Senate panel on Wednesday that the administration of President Donald Trump plans to continue to protect U.S. biofuel producers with trade actions, such as tariffs.
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The move will be coupled with restrictions, a senior administration official said on Monday, on the multibillion-dollar biofuel credit trading industry sought by merchant refiners like Valero Energy Corp and PBF Energy Inc.
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Biofuel credit prices were near five-year highs last year, hitting nearly $1 each, drawing the Trump administration into the debate as merchant refiners said plants may be forced to close without presidential action.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An oil refining group on Thursday asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to change the way it enforces the country's biofuel mandate, stepping up pressure on the agency to alter the program.
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PARIS, June 513 (Reuters) - Dutch-based grain merchant Nidera, controlled by China's state-run trading giant COFCO , said it made a net loss last year due to problems at its former biofuel trading business.
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Many refiners are grappling with record costs to meet U.S. biofuel standards and the prospects of rising crude prices in the wake of the decision by OPEC and other oil producers to cut production.
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