Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

For this reason, it is important that policy makers, not only at EPA but also in California, are realistic about the sustainably available supply of oils, and implement fuel policies to avoid excessive diversion of vegetable oil into transportation fuel production. Biofuels can play a productive role when used at a sustainable level.

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Environmental Leader

JANUARY 12, 2022

ExxonMobil is expanding its interests in biofuels that can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector, acquiring a 49.9% The post ExxonMobil Expands Interest in Biofuels, Acquires Large Stake in Biojet AS appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. stake in Biojet AS.

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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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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed into law today not only makes critical investments in our core infrastructure, it creates several new programs to support the increasing electrification of the transportation sector. For some cities, water transportation remains an area of untapped potential for mass transit.

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Environmental Leader

JANUARY 12, 2022

ExxonMobil is expanding its interests in biofuels that can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector, acquiring a 49.9% The post ExxonMobil Expands Interest in Biofuels, Acquires Large Stake in Biojet AS appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. stake in Biojet AS.

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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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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 13, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act is setting up a fight over the climate footprint of biofuels for aviation, with significant implications for the nation’s emissions trajectory, the U.S. transportation sector and rural communities.

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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.

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Brag

AUGUST 26, 2022

Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on August 23, 2022, that USDA is accepting applications for $100 million in grants to increase the sale and use of biofuels derived from U.S. Under HBIIP, USDA provides grants to transportation fueling and distribution facilities. agricultural products. Applications are due by 4:30 p.m.

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Brag

JANUARY 17, 2022

On December 28, 2021, EPA announced that it will hold a public virtual meeting to discuss biofuel greenhouse gas (GHG) modeling. EPA is soliciting information on the current scientific understanding of GHG modeling of land-based biofuels used in the transportation sector. The next steps EPA should take in this work area.

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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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Brag

AUGUST 12, 2022

” BETO partnered with T2C-Energy, LLC (T2C) to validate pilot-scale production of drop-in biofuels with a price of $3 per gallon of gas equivalent (GGE) and at least 60 percent lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than petroleum, using T2C’s TRIFTS ® process. .” GGE without the use of credits from the U.S.

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Brag

MARCH 2, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held a webinar on requirements under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and the premanufacture notice (PMN) process for biofuels.

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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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Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

Vehicle biofuels requirements. Electric vehicle and biofuel policies E. Transportation planning and land use policies F. Standards for carbon and methane emissions from new sources Permitting requirements for carbon emissions from new stationary sources of major sources of existing pollutants. State climate and energy policy A.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 3, 2022

A quarter of carbon emissions from transportation come from heavy-duty trucks. Biofuels are a possibility, although in the long run they are more needed for planes and ships. Shifting transport from trucks to trains substantially cut emissions. They are also disproportionate sources of air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2022

A two-bill package has been introduced in the House and Senate to establish new incentives for the use of fossil-fueled vehicles-- rebranded as “low emission transportation fuels”-- and eliminating rebates and grants for hybrid and electric vehicles. But obviously, that’s not all they do. Posted: October 7, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 1, 2023

The biofuel used to power commercial aircraft with a smaller carbon footprint has the potential to reduce up to 65% of emissions needed by the aviation industry to reach net zero in 2050.

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Brag

MARCH 25, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held a webinar on “ Biofuel Premanufacture Notices: New Chemical Risk Assessment and Applications of Tools and Models.” EPA states that to support this effort, it is offering outreach and training to stakeholders interested in biofuels.

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JANZEN AG

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

I’ve always considered Tesla to be an enormous innovator—more likely to improve the efficiencies of transportation, vital to farming, rather than a threat to agriculture. It is, after all, a biofuel made from plants. In those instances, a liquid, highly transportable form of energy will continue to make sense.

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Brag

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

(EST) to learn about requirements under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and the premanufacture notice (PMN) process for biofuels. EPA states that to support this effort, it is offering outreach and training to stakeholders interested in biofuels.

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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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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The building and transport sectors shall be integrated into the European Emission Trading Scheme (p.14 With a particular view to the transport sector, the Commission assesses that `the transport sector had the lowest share of renewable energy in 2015, with only 6%. The criticism here is two fold.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 20, 2023

That option refers to a Clean Air Act provision governing the RFS, which allows qualifying transportation biofuels to generate Renewable Identification Numbers (“RINs”), which function as tradeable credits that certain “obligated” fossil fuel entities must purchase to meet annual program requirements.

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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. Biofuel SAFs are defined as renewable or waste-derived aviation fuels. One step further The owners of British Airways and Iberia have gone a step further and signed a deal to buy 785,000 metric tons of e-SAF.

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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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Brag

JANUARY 24, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a new effort under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to streamline the review of new chemicals that could be used to displace current, higher greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting transportation fuels. The announcement includes: New Chemicals Division Integrated Approach to Biofuels.

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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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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. The Secretary of Transportation would receive $1 billion to provide grants to projects including projects that produce, transport, blend, or store sustainable aviation fuels.

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Brag

JULY 13, 2021

The SRE Clarification Act follows the Supreme Court’s decision in late June 2021 that, according to Representatives Craig and Feenstra, could negatively influence the biofuels industry by making it easier for oil refineries to avoid Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) blending requirements.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The RFS “Set” proposal requests public input on required volumes of biofuel for the next one to three years and on a series of modifications intended to strengthen and expand the program. EPA states that this proposal includes steady growth of biofuels for use in the nation’s fuel supply for 2023 , 2024 , and 2025.

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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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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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Brag

OCTOBER 13, 2022

According to the EP’s September 14, 2022, press release , the legislation also defines subtargets for sectors such as transport, buildings, and district heating and cooling.

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Brag

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A Synthetic Biology Toolbox for Studying Bacterial Transporters (University of Wisconsin -- Madison): This project will develop and use tools to close knowledge gaps surrounding transporters in Gram negative bacteria to facilitate the development of superior biomanufacturing hosts.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 17, 2021

Read the full story at Design Boom. Once known as the water of life, whisky is now making headlines as an eco-friendly fuel source. Scottish distillery glenfiddich has launched a fleet of specially converted trucks that run on green biogas made from its own whisky waste.

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