Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor submitted comments to the US Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry hearing on the Growing Climate Solutions Act. The new act aims to accelerate innovations in climate-friendly farming. “With many states and localities increasingly exploring public policy options to lower carbon emissions, the use of biofuels can immediately... [Read More]

Neste, McDonald’s Netherlands and HAVI have joined forces to create a circular economic partnership. The collaboration will see McDonald’s restaurants in the Netherlands recycling the used cooking oil from french fries into Neste MY Renewable Diesel. The fuel will be used in HAVI trucks that deliver goods to McDonald’s. The renewable diesel enables customers... [Read More]

Clariant is making good progress in building a new commercial-scale plant for the production of cellulosic ethanol from agricultural residues based on its sunliquid technology. Paolo Corvo, Clariant’s head of sales and marketing, business line biofuels and derivatives, gave an update on the project during a webinar on how Europe can develop a market for advanced renewable... [Read More]

Georgia-based Attis Industries plans to invest up to €80 million (£72 million) in a new biofuels factory in northern Serbia. The Kula city government has said the new plant could be operational in two years after the green light for the project was given. Vanessa Bageto, a representative of Attis Industries, signed a memorandum of understanding with the city government... [Read More]

A group of engineers and researchers were able to achieve the chemical storage of wind power into a liquid for the first time. BSE Engineering and the Institute for Regenerative Energy Systems at Stralsund University of Applied Sciences (IRES) have successfully demonstrated this conversion of wind power to methanol after the plant operation was launched for converting... [Read More]

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) is reminding pesticide applicators of the restriction for the use of the herbicide dicamba on dicamba-tolerant soybeans for this year’s growing season. The product cannot be applied in Minnesota after June 20. The Minnesota restriction is in addition to those established by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).... [Read More]

The EU’s transition to climate-neutrality will require every sustainable emissions-reduction tool we have. Renewable ethanol – produced sustainably from crops and agricultural wastes and residues – is a decarbonisation solution that is already making a positive impact in the climate fight. Renewable ethanol production opens new markets for Europe’s farmers and... [Read More]

COVID-19 has affected many companies in the ethanol industry around the world as production has been hit by the drop in demand. However, this is not the case for Bulgarian company Essentica, which is the largest and one of the most high-tech companies in Southeastern Europe concerned with the production of bioethanol. Since the beginning of the crisis, the company has... [Read More]

Brazilian ethanol stocks added 4.63 billion litres at the end of May, the latest information released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock showed. The volume was the record high for any end of May since S&P Global Platts started to track this data back in 2010. In the producing region of Central-South Brazil the total ethanol stocks were at 4.46 billion litres,... [Read More]

Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor has thanked two US senators for introducing legislation to reduce Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) delays in the approval of applications to produce advanced biofuels under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). “We applaud Senators John Thune and Jeanne Shaheen for working on a bipartisan basis to break the regulatory logjam holding back... [Read More]

Neste has launched a new research project which aims to develop sustainable and globally scalable raw materials and technology solutions for transportation fuels and the production of chemicals and polymers. These new solutions will decrease the use of crude oil and tackle climate change and the new technologies will be based on scalable renewable and circular raw materials... [Read More]

The EU’s new Farm to Fork Strategy aims to build a more sustainable European agriculture and food system. Importantly, it highlights the potential for a truly circular, bio-based economy in which advanced biorefineries produce bioenergy, protein feed for animals, sustainable fertilisers and bio-chemicals in “the transition to a climate-neutral European economy and... [Read More]

Soybean production in the EU-27 more than doubled over the past 10 years, according to new figures published by the EU Commission. The area planted with soybeans in 2020 is reported to amount to almost 1 million hectares. This is up around 11% year-on-year. Italy, with a soybean area of presumably 306,000 hectares and a 12% increase in area, is likely to remain by... [Read More]

Posti will begin to use renewable Neste MY diesel in its light delivery fleet in line with its continued efforts to develop its emission-free e-commerce logistics. The volume of parcels delivered by Posti has increased sharply in the last few years, with millions of parcels delivered every week this spring. Posti’s own fleet covers roughly 40% of the parcel deliveries... [Read More]

The Renewable Fuels Association has called on President Trump to reject attempts to grant the oil industry more waivers from renewable fuel obligations. The letter coincided with the President’s anniversary visit at an Iowa ethanol plant last year. “One year ago today, you visited Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy in Council Bluffs to join us in celebrating a monumental... [Read More]

The sustainable fuels technology company Velocys has welcomed the announcement from UK Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, on the formation of a new Jet Zero Council. Shapps used his appearance at the daily coronavirus press conference last week to announce the moves, which he said would support the government's vision of a “greener transport future”. During... [Read More]