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

Union of Concerned Scientists

Biofuels can play a productive role when used at a sustainable level. Source EIA Monthly Biofuels Capacity and Feedstocks Update ) Using more oils and fats for fuel instead of food and animal feed has consequences for competing users of these products and for the global agricultural system. Source US Energy Information Administration.

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A Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

The CI is determined through a lifecycle analysis of the global warming pollution associated with the production and use of gasoline, diesel, biofuels, electricity, or other alternative fuels. California may seem like an unlikely driver of deforestation from soybean and palm oil biofuels.

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Machine Learning and the Future of Sustainability Science

HumanNature

For context, the perennial problem in designing novel chemical materials, like new biofuels or energy storage materials for batteries, is one of scale. To illustrate this, let’s consider designing a novel biofuel blend to replace diesel. 2011): 1239-1249. Hughes, James P., “Principles of early drug discovery.”

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EPA Seeks Comments on Additional Candidates Added to Peer Reviewer Pool for Biofuels and the Environment Report to Congress

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on August 1, 2022, a 15-day public comment period on two additional peer review candidates for the external peer review of the Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (RtC3). Comments are due August 16, 2022.

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Bipartisan Bill Introduced To Clarify Oil Refinery Exemptions

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The bill clarifies that only oil refineries that have been continuously receiving small refinery exemptions (SRE) since 2011 should be eligible to petition for extensions of renewable fuel blending requirement exemptions.

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Dear Oil and Gas CEOs: Here’s How You Should Spend Those Record Profits

Union of Concerned Scientists

Further, these efforts are focused on carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, and biofuels—technologies that aim to stash carbon emissions away, not reduce their production. billion per year—less than 2 percent of ExxonMobil’s annual revenue, and far less than its profits from just the last three months.

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Why Ontario needs to stop burning polluting gas for electricity

Enviromental Defense

The rest of our power comes from a mix of nuclear power, renewables like hydro, wind and solar power, and biofuel. Remember the gas plants in Mississauga and Oakville that were abruptly axed before the 2011 election, causing a massive scandal? Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 . Source: IESO [link].