Woodland Biofuels received word on June 26 that it will receive up to $800,000 in funding from in Federal Economic Development funding from the Canadian Government. The money will be used to optimize its demonstration plant in Sarnia, Ontario.
The weakening of the Brazilian real versus the U.S. dollar affects the attractiveness of ethanol in relation to sugar, lowering the level of the world sugar price to a point at which millers begin favoring ethanol over sugar production.
The U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Power Subcommittee held a hearing June 26 on the renewable fuel standard (RFS), titled "Overview of the Renewable Fuel Standard: Government Perspectives." It featured testimony from government officials.
With summer driving season here, a new public opinion poll gauges the consumer impacts of constantly fluctuating gas prices and reveals what Americans think is the solution: renewable fuel. The survey was commissioned by Fuels America.
The Global Renewable Fuels Alliance has reacted to a Food and Agriculture Organization report by noting that while many improvements have been made since the first draft, the report still contains several methodological and factual errors.
Mendota Bioenergy's plan to turn energy beets to ethanol moves to demonstration scale in California's San Joaquin Valley.
Keeping an ethanol plant in compliance with environmental rules and regulations isn't just a one-person job.
American Process applies forestry products know-how to cellulosic conversion.
Bruce Dale urges careful thought about energy and agriculture.
Industry representatives from 26 countries met in St. Louis, June 10-13, for the world's largest and longest- running ethanol conference.
Austin Dillon shares his earliest memories of a life spent in motorsports, his love of dirt track racing and the role ethanol plays in NASCAR's sustainability push.
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By Ethanol Producer Magazine Staff
June 26, 2013
People, Partnerships & Deals
Responding to the fourth in a series of five white papers from the Energy and Commerce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, two trade associations pointed to the renewable fuel standard (RFS) as a successful energy policy that is working.
Six blender fuel pumps are featured at a new gas station in Velva, N.D. The Farmer's Union Oil Co. convenience store was financed with more than $3 million in loans and grants, including a grant of $159,000 from the Rural America for Energy Program.
Independent producers will require new strategies to stay viable.
On June 25, President Obama laid out his three-part plan to address climate change during a speech at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. "As a president, as a father, and as an American, I am here to say we need to act," he said.
No part of the corn kernel goes unexplored.
President Obama is expected to speak about his plan to fight climate change during a speech at Georgetown University on June 25. Those in the biofuels industry are hopefully the plan will recognize the benefits of renewable transportation fuels.
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not take up the petroleum industry's E15 appeal, which was filed by the American Petroleum Institute, Grocery Manufacturers Association and a consortium of other organizations in February.
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