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Everything You Wanted to Know About Biodiesel and Renewable Diesel. Charts and Graphs Included

Union of Concerned Scientists

But in its place renewable diesel is booming, produced in large oil refineries retrofitted for the purpose and consumed primarily in California. Biodiesel and renewable diesel are closely related fuels made from the same oils and fats, which remain scarce, expensive, and linked to deforestation and food price spikes.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

More than 100 countries pledged to halt deforestation by 2030. The backstory: The question of which streams and wetlands are federally regulated under the Clean Water Act has been in limbo for the past decade and a half, since the Supreme Court issued a muddled decision in the 2006 case Rapanos v. United States. 3326 ), from Rep.

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