Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

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.

Biofuels

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Given that he represents Midwest farmers among others, Emmer is a big support of biofuels like corn ethanol. Emmer said: “There are many different factors and variables [increasing energy costs], but one of the primary variables that when government gets involved in mandates that you must have renewables in wind, solar and biofuels.

Biofuels

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

What has not been abundant is the political will to enact these reforms, and CARB’s reluctance to initiate a rulemaking reflects this trend. 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.

Regulations

Energy and Climate Law

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Moreover, via a shift towards growing woody biomass on cropland in a sustainable manner, including as a feedstock for advanced biogas and biofuels This has been criticzed earlier on this blog.

Law

Inside Climate News

AUGUST 25, 2023

On the western half of the state, oil and gas wells dot the Bakken shale, and farmers swap small grains, such as wheat, barley and oats, traditionally grown in the region, for corn and soybeans used as biofuel feedstocks.

Biofuels

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

C temperature target, and one that more than 130 countries have adopted, albeit mostly as squishy political declarations, not yet legally binding or implemented. Fossil enterprises and political leaders in major fossil producers ranged from politely dismissive to openly contemptuous.

Fossil Fuels

Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 13, 2020

As discussed in previous posts , regulated entities must either: (1) ensure that fuels supplied in California meet annual, decreasing carbon intensity (CI) targets ( e.g. , by blending biofuels into gasoline and diesel); or (2) procure and surrender credits to CARB. Public Comments.

Regulations

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

We further noted that the federal government can impose limits on local restrictions, similar to how the Telecommunications Act of 1996 limited (but did not eliminate) the ability of local governments to block cell phone towers. 175568 (Exhibit D). 1] See Nos. 175569, 175570, and 175571 (Exhibit E).

Government

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In political terms, this seems like a lost opportunity to showcase the government’s achievements; it’s also a disservice to those in the policy community who are tracking implementation. USDA also awarded 59 domestic biofuel projects totaling $25 million. The Inflation Reduction Act is Biden’s signature climate program.

Biofuels

Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 24, 2025

Backed by the powerful corn lobby, Marquis Energys push to bury carbon emissions underground has sparked a fierce debate in Illinois politics. Read the full story from Investigate Midwest. The ethanol plant is banking on carbon capture technology to secure federal tax credits.

Carbon Emissions

National Law Center

JULY 1, 2025

Katie Hobbs veto a bill broadly restricting Chinese ownership of Arizona land?

Endangered Species Act

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

300 billion in tax credits for renewable power, biofuels and energy efficiency. Here’s a partial list that I’ve compiled from various sources. Except for tax credits, which have shorter time periods, most of the amounts will be spread over ten years. 29 billion for a green development bank, the Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator. $30

Biofuels

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.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

We call on all our leaders, regardless of their political stripe, to come together to ensure every child has the hope and expectation of a safe climate and pollution-free world. “We lament, however, that this has become a one-party bill instead of uniting the country around defending human health and protecting God’s creation.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2022

More important than their numbers, however, is that several of the affected countries and regions include some of the more politically fragile and/or embattled in the world (e.g., billion, or 24% of the globe’s population. Bangladesh, Egypt, Sudan, Turkey, Yemen.) The world’s top wheat producers, China and India, which produce 2.7

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

Similarly, the amount of biofuels and hydrogen is reduced by approximately 15 percent each, and the amount of CCS is reduced by almost 20 percent, adding on even more cost savings as well as energy savings. This difference is enough to power more than 35 million homes. The IRA and the IIJA are a significant step forward.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Doing research on environmental issues or responses is usually an easy call for policy-makers and gets wide political support, even if there’s disagreement what to do about the issue. Because these harms are all mediated by political behavior, it is impossible to conclusively refute claims that they “could” happen.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Minnesota Federal Court Said State Biofuel Mandate Was Not Preempted. The count to which the defendant pleaded guilty involved a request for reimbursement of $363,668.50 Sentencing was scheduled for February 3, 2017. United States v. Ruffatto , No. 2:16 -cr-00167 (W.D.

2016

Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

If Germany didn’t count emissions-producing and land-intensive fuels like biomass and biofuels as renewable, which most environmental groups, even Greenpeace, believe it shouldn’t, the share of its electricity from non-emitting, non-hydro renewables is just 34 percent.

2020

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 8, 2025

Biofuels are often marketed as homegrown low-carbon fuels, but that’s not an accurate description of where the industry is headed. And of course, there are other uses for vegetable oils and fats beyond biofuels, including food and products like soaps and detergents. Million Metric Tons (MMT) of BBD feedstock and another 3.3

Biofuels

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Both options can increase water use, and biofuel production adds the potential for nutrients to pollute waterways. As Henk Ovink, the Netherlands’ special envoy for international water, put it, “The moment you want to bring water to a political table, there is no political table.”. There are other hurdles as well.

2021

Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi after that hearing I noted that I am aware that Congressional hearings involve some political theater. However, I am not a political appointee. I did not expect to be drawn into political theater that violates basic civility. That may be the case. I do not represent a large trade association.

2020

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2022

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Natural Gas

Arnold Porter

JUNE 14, 2021

However, the proposal being assembled by the bipartisan group of ten senators may provide a pathway to link a bipartisan package passed through regular order with a more partisan, budget reconciliation package, potentially providing political cover for more moderate Democrats.

Clean Energy

ESA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The executive order will include training programs for biotechnology workers and is expected to cover sectors from pharmaceuticals to biofuels and agricultural food supplies. Learn more about voting policies and rights in your state and register to vote at Rock the Vote , a nonprofit dedicated to engaging young people in politics.

2022

A Greener Life

AUGUST 6, 2024

Moreover, industry giants knew that many of the technologies they presented publicly as solutions to the climate crisis – such as algae-based biofuels and carbon capture and storage (CCS) – were neither as green nor as feasible as they promised, the study reveals. Closeup of biofuel in a laboratory.

Biofuels

Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2024

Still, he calls himself “a strong supporter of clean energy innovation, from wind power to biofuels” and reports that “83 percent of the electricity generated in my state of South Dakota came from renewable sources.” in the mix, though he dropped out a couple of days ago.

Renewable Energy

ESA

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Federal employees in this classification would be easier to fire and ESA and the scientific community opposed the executive order over concerns that it could be used to fire scientists whose results contradict the preferences of political appointees. EPA – Water Quality Standards Regulatory Revisions To Protect Tribal Reserved Rights.

2023

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In some cases, for example, where it is made from biofuel and involves taking up agricultural land generally used for food production, the sustainability element drastically declines. Additionally, there are carbon costs associated with producing even sustainable jet fuel.

Biofuels

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2025

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Biofuels