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After years of fighting their own political battles, advocates of ethanol and electric vehicles are tentatively uniting against a shared enemy - fossil fuels.
More than two dozen organisations have come together for nearly two years in Minnesota to work on a "technologically neutral, policy proposal to decarbonise transportation, which has overtaken electricity production as the single largest…
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Biomass fuels derived from various grasses could significantly mitigate global warming by reducing carbon, according to a long-term joint field study by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Michigan State University (MSU).
In a new paper published in Environmental Science and Technology, the researchers examined a number of different cellulosic biofuel crops to test their…
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A new report has found that despite current challenges, Iowa biofuel production continues to have a significant impact on Iowa’s economy.
The report found that its growing production currently supports more than 48,000 jobs and more than $2.4 billion (2.16billion euros) in household income.
The study that was put together by John Urbanchuk, of ABF Economics, and commissioned by the Iowa…
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Serbia is speeding up its move from fossil fuels to biomass with a multi-million euro injection.
Novi Pazar is the third municipality in the country to receive funds under the £26.7m euro (£23.6m) project, which was launched in mid-2017, its Ministry of Mining and Energy announced.
Priboj and Mali Zvornik received the money in October last year. In total, six municipalities in Serbia…
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It’s a case of ice work for one Scottish company.
Mackies Ice Cream, which has been in production since 1986, has begun to install a new refrigeration system running on ammonia produced by biomass boilers.
The installation will be Scotland’s first large scale plant combining biomass heat and absorption chilling, enabling Mackie’s to target ambitious CO2e reductions of 90 per cent and…
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Farmer leaders and biofuel producers from the Midwest states of America have expressed concerns about the news that the Trump administration has decided to side with oil companies in their court battle against biofuels.
The debate centres around a unanimous court decision that would halt the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) abuse of Small Refinery Exemptions (SREs) under the Renewable…
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The world's leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel produced from waste and residue raw materials has agreed to acquire a collector and recycler of used cooking oil in the United States.
The transaction by Neste for Mahoney Environment (Mahoney) is subject to the fulfillment of customary closing conditions and regulatory approval.
“This is another important step for…
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This year is going to be a massive 12 months for biofuels in Brazil, with the launch on Christmas Eve 2019 of the government backed RenovaBio carbon credit programme, the country’s ambitious national biofuels policy, which has been in the making since December 2016, writes Colin Ley.
Following three years of heated debate concerning what impact the new policy will have on the development of…
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A leading Australian firm has become a member of a national energy organisation.
Viva Energy Australia has linked up with peak national body BioEnergy Australia with CEO Scott Wyatt saying the decision supports the company’s existing investment in biofuels distribution.
He said: “We have ethanol and bio-diesel blending facilities in Queensland, NSW and Victoria, and see opportunities to…
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A new demo plant in Sweden will be the first in the world to produce a 2G platform for sustainable fuels, chemicals and materials from pulp and paper industry residues.
The plant in Örnsköldsvik, coined Goldilocks, will be built by the Swedish chemical and clean tech company Sekab alongside Dutch oil company Vertoro.
Sekab CEO Tomas Nilsson said: “We need to break dependence on fossil oil…
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Teeside, UK-based Nova Pangaea Technologies (NPT) has signed a partnership contract with Pakistan’s JS Group to licence NPT’s technology, which converts waste plant biomass into natural platform chemicals and biofuels.
The deal includes a licence for the use of NPT’s REFNOVA end-to-end fractionation process, as well as a front end loading conceptual design package (FEL1) for a co-located…
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Renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel producer Neste has acquired a minority stake in German cleantech company Sunfire, a developer of high-temperature electrolysis technology.
Sunfire’s patented technology allows the production of renewable hydrogen, as well as the direct conversion of water and carbon dioxide (CO2) into raw material for petrochemical products.
“Over the past…
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The University of Southern California (USC) in the US has introduced compost collection bins at university-owned student housing, with collected waste to be used in the production of biofuels.
Troy Hall and New North Residential College are the latest buildings to join the list, which already includes Marks Tower, Parkside Apartments, Nemirovsky and Bohnett residential colleges, as well as…
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Norwegian short sea roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) shipping line UECC has partnered with marine biofuel producer GoodFuels to trial biofuel oil on its ro-ro vessel M/V Autosky.
The three-month trial using GoodFuels’ Bio-Fuel Oil (MR1-100, or BFO) will test 3,000 metric tonnes of sustainable biofuel on the vehicle carrier. The bio-bunkering of the vessel, which will take place in the Port of…
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