Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

But a March 2022 analysis from the investor consortium Climate Action 100+ determined that no major oil company was on track to meet the Paris goals. Meanwhile, annual reports show corporations are pushing ahead with plans to expand production, betting on new technologies to somehow make it all okay in the future.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 16, 2022

The Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update takes an all-of-the-above approach to decarbonize California. On May 10, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update for public review and comment. By Joshua T. Bledsoe and Brian McCall.

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Brag

JANUARY 17, 2022

In the RFI “Overcoming Barriers to Renewable Fuel Scale-Up and Demonstration,” DOE expresses its wish to obtain input from biofuels producers and technology developers regarding their readiness to scale process technologies to pilot- and demonstration-scale sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), renewable diesel, and renewable marine fuels.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Carbon intensity takes into account emissions occurring production and transportation of fuel or the fact that plants grown for biofuels actually suck CO2 out of the atmosphere. I used a December 2022 report from the California Air Resources Board as my primary resource. California reports about a 9% reduction in carbon intensity.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

The grants support electricity, compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, propane, hydrogen, hythane, biodiesel, ethanol, methanol, and other advanced biofuels. Posted: June 30, 2022] PA Environment Digest There are two deadlines for applications- August 26 and December 16. New grant rounds are expected this Fall.

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Brag

APRIL 12, 2022

On March 22, 2022, DOE announced a $34.5 million funding opportunity to improve the science and infrastructure for converting waste streams into bioproducts and biofuels that can benefit the local energy economy. EDT) on April 18, 2022. EDT) on June 7, 2022. Bergeson and Ligia Duarte Botelho, M.A. Robust Microbial Cells.

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Brag

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

On October 28, 2022, the U.S. It is anticipated that these funds will support new projects related to rural electric system resiliency, biofuels, renewable energy technologies, and more. Written comments are due November 28, 2022. November 4, 2022 , focused on IRA Section 22004. Bergeson and Carla N.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The growing credits for electricity reflect the growing number of EVs on the road in California, and support California’s goal of phasing out combustion technologies in favor of zero emissions vehicles. The CI of an electric vehicle charged with solar power is zero, and most of the biofuels fall somewhere in the middle [i].

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Brag

MARCH 14, 2022

On March 16, 2022 , the House Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Energy will hold a hearing on “ Bioenergy Research and Development for the Fuels and Chemicals of Tomorrow.” Bergeson and Carla N.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It’s not hard to see why CARB has taken this approach: dairy digesters are a technological intervention that require little change to the operation of industrial dairies. The new biogas subsidization frenzy brings to mind past failures attempting to jumpstart a market for crop-based biofuels. To CARB, installing digesters is a win-win.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

Fifteen years ago, for example, it designed a virtual minivan—dubbed the Vanguard —that could meet California’s global warming emission standards at the time using existing technologies and fuels, demonstrating that the auto industry had the ability back then to produce cleaner cars. At the end of 2022, there were more than 283 million.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

On May 10, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update (Draft Scoping Plan) for public review and comment. Transportation technology and fuels both implicate the LCFS Program. CARB doubles down on LCFS Program and liquid transportation fuels. By Joshua T.

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Brag

AUGUST 23, 2022

Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) announced on August 11, 2022, that a research team from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory investigated how potassium in biomass feedstocks poisons a catalyst. Bergeson and Carla N.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

It’s déjà vu all over again in 2023, with BP rolling back its climate pledges after record-breaking 2022 profits since Russia’s unjust war on Ukraine. The House Oversight Committee investigation came to the same conclusion as the 2022 study: Accusations of greenwashing appear well-founded.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Council further agreed to soften its recommendation that the state enact clean fuel standard legislation, and instead decided to recommend in the draft plan the use of biofuels and electric vehicles. The Council must then issue its final Scoping Plan by the end of 2022.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Geissler, C.H. and Maravelias, C.T. “Analysis of alternative bioenergy with carbon capture strategies: present and future.” ” Energy & Environmental Science 5, 2679-2689.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

This free online resource includes a searchable database that catalogues all of the climate change-related provisions in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), as well as a tracker that records actions taken by federal agencies to implement those provisions. The IRA Tracker homepage.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 15, 2023

But, eventually, all tanks deteriorate: contact with soil can corrode steel tanks, and modern fuels like ethanol and biofuels can eat away at fiberglass tanks, causing them to chip, peel, and crack. The life span of a fiberglass UST is approximately 30-40 years, and properly maintained steel tanks can last even longer.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Climate Smart Agriculture and Forestry Practices, EQIP FY 2022 CSAF Category Practice Name Financial Assistance Total FA for CSAF Category Percent of Total EQIP Financial Assistance Soil Health Conservation Cover $4,521,721 $172,427,455 13.4% Livestock Partnership Anaerobic Digester $1,806,244 $3,943,914 0.3% Grand Totals $381,524,784 30.1%

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Brag

JUNE 3, 2022

On June 1, 2022, the U.S. ” The FOA states that $59 million is available to expand the production of biofuels and bioproducts. EDT), July 8, 2022. Bergeson and Ligia Duarte Botelho, M.A. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) titled “Scale-Up of Integrated Biorefineries.”

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Brag

JANUARY 10, 2023

Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) announced on December 15, 2022, that it intends to issue two funding opportunity announcements (FOA) in early 2023. Bergeson and Carla N. Algae crop protection.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2023

In a March 2022 voluntary settlement of an Environmental Hearing Board appeal of the air quality permit for the proposed facility, the developers of the LNG plant and DEP agreed a new air quality permit would be needed for continued development of the facility. As of December 31, 2022, we have spent approximately $128.6

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

OCTOBER 6, 2023

And in 2022 , the number of farmers turned away from CSP due to a lack of funding had grown to over 24,000. In 2020 , more than 20,000 farmers were turned away from the program due to a lack of funding. In these two years, more than 75% of the farmers that applied to one of USDA’s most effective climate programs were turned away.

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Brag

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) published a CRS report, updated on September 19, 2022, entitled The Bioeconomy: A Primer. The report notes that it is unclear if existing programs and efforts to support regional innovation and technology-based economic development, including in rural areas, are sufficient to advance the bioeconomy.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The regulation is anti ingenuity and rejects innovation when it does not include a provision, as required by the statute for allowances for the use of biofuels, does not provide for fuel cells, makes no provision for hydrogen power generation, does not touch on building carbon capture or for that matter any technology based solution.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 18, 2023

Photo © Keith Schneider/Circle of Blue Other Developments In January, Avapco LLC, a biofuel company that operates an ethanol refinery in Thomaston, Ga. The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act authorized a $3 production tax credit for every kilogram of so-called “green hydrogen.” million gallons of jet fuel per year from wood chips.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 2, 2023

Photo credit: USDA NRCS Texas In February 2022, the U.S. In late 2022 USDA announced further details about projects, and more recently debuted the Partnerships Network. Department of Agriculture (USDA) first announced details of its Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities (PCSC).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The coalition includes NGOs including the American Lung Association, NRDC, Public Citizen, Sierra Club, and many others; California and 19 other states (including Michigan); clean technology firms and power companies; and the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, whose members include all the major motor vehicle manufacturerss.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The Government Accountability Office issued five new priority recommendations to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. White House : The Office of Science and Technology Policy released draft templates for disclosing current and pending sources of support in federal grant applications. Read the full report here.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

White House announces new leadership for the Office of Science and Technology Policy. ESA Traditional Ecological Knowledge section to hold webinar with Office of Science and Technology Policy staff. 1260 ), which the Senate passed in June 2021 and addresses competitiveness with China and science and technology policy.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In this issue: ESA Selects 2022 Graduate Student Policy Award Recipients. ESA Selects 2022 Graduate Student Policy Award Recipients. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA) 2022 cohort. To lead more about the 2022 GSPA cohort, read the full press release. by Alex Thompson, PolitcoPro, 2/7/2022.

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ESA

MAY 23, 2022

In response to a question from a BIO AC member, an NSF representative shared that the federal government is considering how to improve how it collects gender demographics at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy level. What You Need to Know About Biofuels – PoliticoPro. remains the world’s magnet for top STEM talent.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 6, 2021

trillion into traditional and next generation infrastructure technologies, and represents the work product of 22 Republican, Democratic and Independent Senators who painstakingly negotiated the package in concert with the White House. Electric Vehicle Infrastructure. Overall, the bill invests $7.5 Clean Corridors Program. The remaining $2.5

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 14, 2021

The plan calls on Congress to invest $35 billion in technological solutions for addressing the climate crisis, including innovation in clean energy technology. The infrastructure debate is far from over as President Biden and lawmakers maneuver campaign pledges, a closely-divided Senate, and an upcoming 2022 congressional election.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Mike Collins (R-GA) will chair the Research and Technology Subcommittee and Rep. In September 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order reviving several lapsed federal advisory committees, including ISAC and in January 2022, the Interior Department issued a call for nominations for new ISAC members. Freshman Rep.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

House Science Committee: Chairman Frank Lucas (R-OK) sent a letter to White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Arati Prabhakar requesting information about how the White House has responded to a scientific integrity scandal involving OSTP Deputy Director for Climate and Environment Jane Lubchenco.

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