Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2022

Among the many programs enhanced or created by the legislation, a number relate to carbon sequestration and low-carbon transportation fuels. Biofuel infrastructure funds. The law provides $500 million for infrastructure to dispense biofuels, through 2031. Aviation fuel and technology grants.

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Brag

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Department of Energy (DOE) announced on January 26, 2023, $118 million in funding for 17 projects to accelerate the production of sustainable biofuels for America’s transportation and manufacturing needs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

The LCFS is the leading example of a Clean Fuel Standard , an approach to transportation fuel policy that holds oil refiners accountable to reduce the carbon intensity (CI) of transportation fuels. But California’s LCFS has been struggling and is approaching a treacherous precipice. What broke the LCFS?

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Nanotech

MAY 22, 2024

Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) announced on May 7, 2024, the release of the “Progression of Net-Zero Emission Propulsion Technologies for the Off-Road Sector Request for Information” (RFI).

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Brag

MARCH 2, 2023

Hutton On February 16, 2023, Representative Randy Feenstra (R-IA) introduced a legislative package that includes bills regarding researching the potential of biofuels to power jet engines and developing a commercially viable fuel cell system for cars and trucks powered exclusively by biofuels. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look. CARB’s use of the LCFS as a cash cow to fund manure digesters is bad transportation fuel policy and bad agricultural policy. Accounting gimmicks disguise a poorly run offset scheme as a magic carbon negative climate solution.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 3, 2022

A quarter of carbon emissions from transportation come from heavy-duty trucks. At least with present technology, electric batteries do not seem to be a viable solution for long-haul trucking. Biofuels are a possibility, although in the long run they are more needed for planes and ships.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

Vehicle biofuels requirements. Investment and incentives for clean technologies under the Inflation Reduction Act. Electric vehicle and biofuel policies E. Transportation planning and land use policies F. Standards for existing stationary carbon sources (focused on power plants to date). Federal energy policy A.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Picture for Transportation is Less Clear. Total direct transportation emissions in 2019 were about the same as those a decade earlier. 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.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 20, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection is now accepting applications for about $5 million in funding for Alternative Fuels Incentive Grants available to school districts, municipalities, nonprofit organizations, and businesses in Pennsylvania that want to transition to cleaner fuel transportation.

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Brag

JUNE 3, 2022

” The FOA states that $59 million is available to expand the production of biofuels and bioproducts. In alignment with a broader DOE strategy to support biorefinery projects for the transportation sector, the FOA aims to reduce emissions in hard-to-decarbonize sectors and create jobs in rural areas of the United States.

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Brag

JUNE 2, 2023

According to DOE, the Clean Fuels & Products Shot TM supports the national goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 by developing the sustainable feedstocks and conversion technologies necessary to produce crucial fuels, materials, and carbon-based products that are better for the environment than current petroleum-derived components.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

CARB’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) seeks to incentivize the production and sale of alternative, lower emissions transportation fuels in order to displace conventional fossil fuels. To identify which fuels should be promoted, CARB calculates the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels.

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Earthava

MAY 17, 2021

However, one of its most pressing current challenges is reducing the carbon emissions from transportation, a sector that is one of the highest contributors to greenhouse gases. One prominent solution to this issue is using green technology to develop transportation and make them sustainable. Promotes sustainable transport.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Transportation is now the source of 28% of U.S. The transportation sector is also a substantial source of nitrogen oxides and particulates, both of which are dangerous to human health. EPA has considered electrification technologies in many past rulemakings and has used fleet average standards for decades.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

CARB doubles down on LCFS Program and liquid transportation fuels. The program’s original target was to reduce the carbon intensity (CI) of transportation fuel used in California by 2020 at least 10% from a 2010 baseline. Transportation fuels sold in California with CIs higher than the benchmark generate deficits. By Joshua T.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection is now accepting applications for approximately $3 million in Alternative Fuels Incentive Grants for school districts, municipalities, nonprofit organizations, and businesses in Pennsylvania that want to transition to cleaner fuel transportation. New grant rounds are expected this Fall.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 21, 2024

E-SAF is even cleaner, but it is more expensive than SAF and is made of biofuel. This involves often partnering with other companies using innovative and new SAF technologies, with differing forms of creating SAF fuels, all with different benefits or environmental impacts.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 18, 2023

industrial policy for energy and transportation. Federal law to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is encouraging livestock feeding operations, like this one in Cochise County, Arizona, to convert manure to methane for electricity and transportation fuel. million gallons of jet fuel per year from wood chips.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 16, 2022

Scenario 2: Achieves carbon neutrality by 2035 with aggressive deployment of a full suite of technology and energy options, including CCS and other engineered carbon removal. Scenario 3: Achieves carbon neutrality by 2045 by deploying a broad portfolio of existing and emerging fossil fuel alternatives and clean technologies.

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Brag

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

million in funding for projects focused on the production of cost-effective and low-carbon biofuels. DOE aims to advance technologies to replace petroleum fuels used in heavy-duty forms of transportation, such as airplanes and ships. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the U.S. DOE Secretary of Energy Jennifer M.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 26, 2022

million to aid in evaluating the safety of new fuels, and over $61 million for projects to advance biofuels and support reduced cost of SAF pathways. If enacted, the Build Back Better bill would include several provisions concerning SAF as part of its Alternative Fuel and Low Emission Aviation Technology Program.

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Brag

JANUARY 24, 2023

Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) announced on January 20, 2023, that a collaborative team of BETO-funded scientists from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are searching for carbon utilization technologies that can make better use of the carbon dioxide generated by industry, (..)

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Brag

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) announced that through the funding opportunity entitled “ Accelerating Innovations in Biomanufacturing Approaches through Collaboration Between [the U.S. Bergeson and Carla N. Hutton On August 29, 2023, the U.S.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As LIPA Council-Member Tom Falcone pointed out, the existing gas distribution system could be transitioned to transport hydrogen. 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.

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Brag

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) recently announced the selection of five external collaborations totaling over $3.7 The selected projects all directly contribute to producing renewable biofuels and biobased chemicals and materials. Bergeson and Carla N. Hutton The U.S. biomanufacturing sector.

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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. Division A & B—Surface Transportation Programs. billion provided in appropriations. .

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Brag

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It is anticipated that these funds will support new projects related to rural electric system resiliency, biofuels, renewable energy technologies, and more. USDA requests comments on specific questions in the RFI, as well as on any other topics relevant to implementation. Written comments are due November 28, 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2023

We operate in the highly competitive industry for LNG and face intense competition from independent, technology-driven companies as well as from both major and other independent oil and natural gas companies and utilities, in the various markets in which we operate and many of which have been in operation longer than us.

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Scientific American

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The biofuel, made from used cooking oil, could help the aviation industry cut climate-threatening carbon emissions. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

Section 60103 creates a “Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund” (GGRF), which the EPA Administrator can use to make grants for the deployment of zero-emission technologies, and to carry out other greenhouse gas emission reduction activities. EPA has also issued guidance announcing the initial program design of its GGRF.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In 2021, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) set a target for the aviation industry to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, many airlines are considering carbon-capture-and-storage technologies and electric-powered planes.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 14, 2021

Rebuild and repair transportation infrastructure to be sustainable. The American Jobs Plan calls for $621 billion in transportation infrastructure and resilience, which includes various climate priorities for President. In these transportation investments, the plan prioritizes equity and forward-thinking investments.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The bill authorizes the Air Resources Board to initially implement incentive-based strategies to achieve reductions, and directs it to implement an enforceable regulatory strategy for manure methane beginning in 2024 if the strategy meets several criteria such as technological, economic, and infrastructural feasibility. Conclusion.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 10, 2023

The United States continues to affirm its commitment to decarbonizing the shipping industry—from signing the Clydebank Declaration, to developing green shipping corridors, to, most recently, releasing a new blueprint for transportation decarbonization. Eliminating shipping emissions will go a long way towards reaching a zero-carbon future.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 10, 2023

The United States continues to affirm its commitment to decarbonizing the shipping industry—from signing the Clydebank Declaration, to developing green shipping corridors, to, most recently, releasing a new blueprint for transportation decarbonization. Eliminating shipping emissions will go a long way towards reaching a zero-carbon future.

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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. 7776 ) with bipartisan support.

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