The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced the provision of $100 million (€90.2 million) for infrastructure projects to encourage increased sales of higher biofuel blends. The funding, which will be awarded through the Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program (HBIIP), was announced by US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue. Higher biofuel blends include ethanol blends […]
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 […]
Trojan scientists are raiding deep fryers, developing alternative crops and turning to kelp in their quest to create renewable biofuels. If you’ve ever deep-fried a fish or crisped up a batch of homemade potato chips, you’ve probably eyed the leftover vegetable oil as nothing more than a messy inconvenience. Travis Williams, a chemistry professor at […]
US-based Puget Sound Energy (PSE) has teamed up with Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) to purchase 17 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy from its mill in Mount Vernon, Washington. The move to invest in biomass energy marks PSE’s continued commitment to the environment and deep decarbonisation. PSE will work with SPI to use 17MW of energy […]
WASHINGTON – It took millions of years for the remains of microscopic plants and animals that once covered the floors of ancient oceans to become buried deep underground to form a carbon-rich stew known as petroleum. Now, in the next big play to manage climate change, engineers are moving to speed and re-engineer that process, […]
Every emission on the ground or in the air will come under the microscope as part of a $US1 billion commitment by Delta Air Lines to become the world’s first carbon-neutral airline. Starting March 1, 2020, Delta will begin a 10-year journey to mitigate all emissions in its global business. The announcement came as Barron’s […]
Fuelled by the pressure of climate activists and global mass protests, EU decision-makers embraced an unprecedented focus on the climate emergency and sustainable bioenergy. This resulted in the principles laid down in the European Green Deal in late 2019. The rhetoric we witnessed in the last months is now giving way to concrete proposals to […]
Biotech company White Dog Labs has received approval from the district court for Morrison County in Minnesota, US to acquire the Central Minnesota Renewables (CMR) biorefinery in Little Falls, Minnesota.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) plans to provide up to $75 million (€67.4 million) over a five-year period for research to develop sustainable bioenergy crops, which are resistant to environmental stress and changing environmental conditions.
Following the recent completion of trial shipments on container ships powered by biofuels, a new report from the Copenhagen-based Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) suggests this fuel type may be of short-term help in shipping’s quest to reduce its carbon emissions.