Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 24, 2022

the strategic investment arm of South Korea’s SK Group, was part of a $50-million investment in Fulcrum BioEnergy, a US-based waste-to-fuels company. Fulcrum produces biofuel on a commercial scale by chemically converting municipal solid… Read more → was joined in the investment with a Korean private equity fund.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 13, 2023

One cannot appreciate how food processing wastes become biofuels just by reading about it in a book.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 19, 2023

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. At the same time, we’d like for it to produce less soot, and thus, less air pollution.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Waste-to-energy resource circularity – CAAS will work with stakeholders to determine if Changi Airport can accommodate an on-site waste-to-energy facility. This facility would turn waste into feedstock to generate electricity or biofuel for use within the airport.

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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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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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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

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The other set of bills adds natural gas, renewable natural gas, propane-- rebranding them as “low emission transportation fuels” to the “biofuel” program under the Biofuel Development And Instate Production Act Program-- Senate Bill 1338 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) and House Bill 2871 (Gleim-R-Cumberland).

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 14, 2024

Joelle Simonpietri and her crew are clearing invasive flora, concrete detritus and derelict concrete-making machinery from a property in Kapolei that they hope will eventually close the loop on a significant portion of Oahu’s unrecycled waste.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This will be the first time that a commercial airliner has taken on nothing but biofuels, and it aims to prove that this is a viable and realistic step towards low carbon flight. I distinctly remember Richard Branson posing next to a jet powered by (5%) coconut biofuels and declaring “a biofuel breakthrough for the whole airline industry.”

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Frontiers

MARCH 17, 2023

By Colm Gorey, Frontiers science communications manager Image: Shutterstock.com From drones to using ‘poison nut’ as biofuel, the world of energy research is undergoing immense change. Jatropha curcas, a plant that produces oil-rich seeds and sometimes referred to as ‘poison nut’, has also been studied as a potential source of biofuel.

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Brag

JANUARY 24, 2022

The announcement includes: New Chemicals Division Integrated Approach to Biofuels. EPA states that NCD developed a standardized process for the way biofuel PMNs are reviewed. ” EPA states that this effort supports its goals under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program , as well as its 2021 Climate Adaptation Action Plan.

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Brag

APRIL 12, 2022

million funding opportunity to improve the science and infrastructure for converting waste streams into bioproducts and biofuels that can benefit the local energy economy. Bergeson and Ligia Duarte Botelho, M.A. On March 22, 2022, DOE announced a $34.5

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Montrose

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Del Rio Renewable Biofuels project is led by partners Clean Energy and TotalEnergies, with Montrose serving as the Engineering, Procure and Construction partner. When completed, the Del Rio Dairy digester project will capture the waste from more than 7,500 milking cows and generate an anticipated 1.1

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 17, 2021

Scottish distillery glenfiddich has launched a fleet of specially converted trucks that run on green biogas made from its own whisky waste. Once known as the water of life, whisky is now making headlines as an eco-friendly fuel source. The innovative closed loop system will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by… Read more →

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 26, 2022

SAFs are liquid hydrocarbon fuels that are blended into the existing fuel supply using materials like waste, fats, cooking oils and corn. 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. White House SAF Initiative.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

One year later , it scheduled more than 200 trial flights between Paris and Amsterdam using biofuel made from used cooking oil. Biomass and municipal waste. Saville says that biomass , made from algae, crop residues, animal waste, forestry residue and municipal waste, could also have big potential as aviation fuel. “If

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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 public comment period will also include a series of stakeholder meetings and Council discussions.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It’s also wasteful – a third of all crop insurance subsidies flow to insurance companies and agents, not farmers.) For example, from 1995 to 2022 corn and soy, used largely for animal feed (and biofuels) received over 56% of all crop insurance premium subsidies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

When I started working on biofuel policy back in 2008, there was a lot of criticism of corn ethanol because in some cases it had lifecycle emissions higher than gasoline. 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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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

Biofuels Gas or liquid fuel made from plant material. Includes wood, wood waste, wood liquors, peat, railroad ties, wood sludge, spent sulfite liquors, agricultural waste, straw, tires, fish oils, tall oil, sludge waste, waste alcohol, municipal solid waste, landfill gases, other waste, and ethanol blended into motor gasoline.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Cattle waste and wastewater. Food waste—uneaten leftovers or culinary mistakes. But when paired with waste-to-energy (WtE) technology, these things can become downright energetic—in the form of… Read more → Read the full story from DOE. Sludgy grease ensconced in restaurant and cafeteria grease traps.

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Acoel

JANUARY 16, 2024

While our industrial food system is producing food that appears inexpensive and abundant (indeed, food is comparatively so inexpensive to most Americans, that the country wastes over 35% of it), it’s also one of the largest sources of water, air, and climate pollution in the country. agriculture policy.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

With gas prices soaring and food costs pinching family budgets, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at WPI is looking at ways to use food waste to make a renewable and more affordable fuel replacement for oil-based diesel. Read the full story from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 24, 2022

He noted that often little or no effort toward reducing energy waste was made by the hotel, although towel reuse saved them laundry costs. You make the choice: A towel on the rack means, I will use again.”

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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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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The Council also established and consulted with sector-specific advisory panels and working groups to address carbon emissions in areas such as transportation, solid waste, and energy generation. The CLCPA established the Council, a 22-member committee tasked with determining how to meet these statutory goals.

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Brag

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

million in funding to enable the sustainable use of domestic biomass and waste resources, such as agricultural residues and algae, to produce low-carbon biofuels and bioproducts. Hutton On February 8, 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $25.5

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Brag

JANUARY 10, 2023

The prospective 2023 Conversion R&D FOA would support the development of technologies that convert domestic lignocellulosic biomass and waste resources, including industrial syngas, into affordable biofuels and bioproducts that significantly reduce carbon emissions under two main areas of interest: Overcoming barriers to syngas conversion; and.

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Brag

JUNE 3, 2022

” The FOA states that $59 million is available to expand the production of biofuels and bioproducts. DOE is focused on applied research, development, and deployment of such products to improve the performance and cost of biofuel production technologies and scale-up production systems in partnership with industry.

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Air Canada is a signatory of the Clean Skies for Tomorrow Coalition. The coalition's mission is to accelerate the deployment and use of sustainable aviation fuel technologies to reach 10% of the global jet aviation fuel supply by 2030.

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Air Canada is a signatory of the Clean Skies for Tomorrow Coalition. The coalition's mission is to accelerate the deployment and use of sustainable aviation fuel technologies to reach 10% of the global jet aviation fuel supply by 2030.

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Earthava

MAY 17, 2021

Compared to fueled vehicles, electric vehicles, such as eco electric scooters or e-bikes, are more energy-efficient, which means that there’s little to no energy waste and most of the energy goes to driving the vehicle. A great example is a biofuel. Moreover, biofuels cost almost the same as regular fuel.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Waste Separation Facility $2,137,670 Grazing and Pasture Pasture and Hay Planting $30,093,271 $57,056,074 4.5% Solid/Liquid Waste Separation Facility $2,459,511 Grazing and Pasture Pasture & Hayland Planting $29,381,463 $62,394,728 4.9% Livestock Partnership Anaerobic Digester $1,806,244 $3,943,914 0.3%

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2022

for Vicinity Energy Biogenic Fuel: Vicinity Energy converted four boilers at its Edison Station in Philadelphia to use a new biofuel, LR100. million gallons – in a sustainable and cost-effective manner. -- Vicinity Energy Philadelphia, Inc.

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Brag

JUNE 2, 2023

DOE notes that a ribbon-cutting took place on May 30, 2023, for the Biofuels National User Facility, a $15 million, three-year-long facility upgrade at Idaho National Laboratory funded by DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and an important asset to reach the goals of the Clean Fuels & Products Shot TM.

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Brag

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

According to NASEM, LCAs have been increasingly applied in the development of transportation fuel policy to estimate and help reduce GHG emissions from fuels such as electricity, biofuels, synthetic fuels, and hydrogen. Biofuel production facilities typically produce additional products.

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