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UPM has joined Together for Sustainability, a chemical industry initiative designed to promote and improve sustainability practises within supply chains. TfS has set up a standard approach to evaluate and improve the sustainability performance of suppliers. These evaluations cover areas such as environmental impact, health and safety, labour and human rights, and governance and management. "We…
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US drivers have logged 5 billion miles on E15 ethanol, trade association for the US ethanol industry, Growth Energy, has announced. Growth Energy has been working with Prime the Pump, a non-profit dedicated to helping build the infrastructure and distribution of higher biofuel blends. According to Growth Energy, this collaboration has doubled the number of E15 stations four years in a row to…
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The US National Biodiesel Board (NBB) and its members have asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to raise volumes in the Renewable Fuel Standard. Testifying at the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Public Hearing for Proposed Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) for 2019 and Biomass-Based Diesel Volume for 2020, NBB and its members are asking for the 2020 biomass-based diesel…
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Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC) has approved a project to produce designs for a modular biodiesel plant. BIC is a not-for-profit business accelerator based in Ontario, Canada and hopes the new plant will lower construction costs and improve quality.  Its Centre for Commercialization of Sustainable Chemistry Innovation (COMM SCI) will work with the renewable energy company Benefuel on…
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Scientists use technique to automatically predict the amount of biofuel produced by microbes. Scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory say they have developed a way to use machine learning to dramatically accelerate the design of microbes that produce biofuel. Their computer algorithm starts with data about the proteins and metabolites in a…
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Preem and RenFuel, in collaboration with Rottneros, are constructing what they say is the world's first lignin plant for biofuels. The plant is to produce 25-30,000 tonnes of lignin each year and is expected to be completed by 2021. The pair is acting through their co-owned company, called Lignolproduktion, to reach the plant’s goal of a production capacity of 300-500,000 tonnes of…
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A group of representatives from the US ethanol industry is suing the EPA for its use of waivers from the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). The plaintiffs are Renewable Fuels Association (RFA), National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) and National Farmers Union (NFU), with support of Farmers Union Enterprises. The coalition filed their motion in the US Court…
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 A campaign calling on the UK government to support the introduction of E10 blended petrol has been launched. The #BE10%Good campaign is being heavily backed by the UK’s bioethanol industry. According to a statement, it will run across PR, digital and social media channels. It is lobbying for the Government to introduce E10 in the UK to tackle transport emissions. “It aims to…
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According to a new poll, US consumers feel that E15 should be available year-round at the pump, scrapping the summer barrier on the fuel. Each summer, from 1 June to 15 September, fuel stations across the US are forced to stop sales of E15 fuel blends. This is part of EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) attempts to regulate ozone emissions. Earlier this year, 18 US Senators signed a letter…
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Total’s La Mede biodiesel refinery is facing controversy, with France’s largest farmer’s union calling for a nationwide blockade of oil refineries in response to the facility’s intention to use imported palm oil. Last week the French government allowed limited use of palm oil feedstock at the oil and gas giant’s biodiesel facility in Southern France, according to…
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Polls sponsored by the US National Biodiesel Board show that voters in three Midwestern states think it is important that President Donald Trump keeps his campaign promise to protect the Renewable Fuel Standard. While campaigning to be president, Trump told the January 2016 Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit: “The RFS… is an important tool in the mission to achieve energy independence for…
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In Porto Marghera, Italy, Eni has started collecting used cooking oil (UCO) from the homes of its employees to be used as feedstock for advanced biofuels. According to the Italian oil and gas giant, it is the first company in the world to take a traditional refinery and successfully transform it into a biorefinery using proprietary technology. The move to start collecting UCO forms part of a…
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The US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and its industrial partner LanzaTech claim that their new technology is helping clear the way to ethanol derived jet fuel. In April, the ASTM International revised ASTM D7566 Annex 15 – the Standard Specification for Aviation Turbine Fuel Containing Synthesised Hydrocarbons – to add ethanol as an approved…
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