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Ethanol in crosshairs as deadline nears on tax creditWashington (AFP) Dec 3, 2010 Ethanol, once seen as an answer to US energy problems, is seeing political support waning as a deadline nears for Congress to decide on extending tax subsidies for the widely used biofuel. US lawmakers have until December 31 to prolong the subsidy, which costs the US government an estimated six billion dollars a year, but the earlier broad support for the fuel from farmers and environmentalists appears to be wavering. Critics say ethanol, made mainly from corn in the United States, has diverted ... read more |
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 UNICA Takes Brazilian Renewable Energy Success To COP-16 The Brazilian experience spanning nearly four decades with large-scale production and use of sugarcane ethanol will be presented in a variety of formats by the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Associati ... more | .. |
 Biofuels Digest Readers Rank Strongest Drivers For Biofuel Industry In 2011 The U.S. military's interest in secure domestic sources of renewable biofuels and biofuels producers' search for commercial value streams in renewable chemicals and biobased products will be the top ... more | .. |
 Lufthansa First Airline To Use Biofuel On Commercial Flights At a joint press conference, Lufthansa Chairman and CEO Wolfgang Mayrhuber, with Peter Hinze, Parliamentary State Secretary and Government Aerospace Coordinator, and Professor Dr. Johann-Dietrich Wo ... more | .. |
 Brazil Invests In Scania Ethanol Buses Sao Paulo, Brazil - with its many millions of inhabitants - is taking another step towards sustainable development. The city's mayor, Gilberto Kassab, announced yesterday (25 November) that Scania e ... more |
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 Verenium Announces Collaboration With Edible Oil Leader Desmet Ballestra Verenium has announced an agreement with Desmet Ballestra Group to jointly market the Purifine enzymatic degumming process, which combines Verenium's Purifine PLC enzyme and Desmet Ballestra's engin ... more | .. |
 Gene Find Could Lead To Better Biofuel Production Purdue University scientists have found the last undiscovered gene responsible for the production of the amino acid phenylalanine, a discovery that could lead to processes to control the amino acid ... more | .. |
 A High-Yield Biomass Alternative To Petroleum For Industrial Chemicals A team of University of Massachusetts Amherst chemical engineers report in Science that they have developed a way to produce high-volume chemical feedstocks including benzene, toluene, xylenes and o ... more | .. |
 Lufthansa wants to test biofuels on German flights Europe's leading airline, Lufthansa, said Monday that it will offer regular service between Frankfurt and Hamburg in April with a plane that can use biofuel in addition to jet fuel. ... more |
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 Rentech's Synthetic RenDiesel Fuels Audi A3 TDI Rentech has announced that its synthetic RenDiesel fuel will power an Audi A3 TDI during the Green Cars LA Auto Show Ride and Drive event, hosted by Green Car Journal. During the event, creden ... more | .. |
 Diverse Coalition Files Lawsuit To Overturn EPA's 'E15' Decision A diverse coalition of farm and food trade associations have filed a suit in federal court to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's recent decision to allow gasoline containing 15 percent e ... more | .. |
 CARB Will Cut LCFS Penalty For Ethanol In Half The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has adopted a resolution that will integrate the latest research on indirect land use change (ILUC) into the Low Carbon Fuels Standard (LCFS) regulation, me ... more | .. |
 NACF: USDA Program Could Be A Biomass Boon National Clean Fuels has announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) could be a boon to the company's biomass electrical plant in Port Gibson, Miss. The pro ... more |
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 US To Develop More Sugarcane Ethanol The first major sugarcane ethanol refinery in the continental United States will be built in the Imperial Valley of California, one of the best locations for growing sugarcane in the world. The etha ... more | .. |
 Celanese Develops Advanced Technology For Production Of Industrial-Use Ethanol Celanese has announced its intention to construct manufacturing facilities in China and the U.S. to utilize recently-developed advanced technology for the production of ethanol for chemical applicat ... more | .. |
 Statoil Now Blending Inbicon's Cellulosic Ethanol For Danish Drivers As Statoil rolls out a 5% ethanol blend at 100 selected petrol stations across Denmark, Inbicon has reported that it has already begun supplying Statoil with second-generation bioethanol made from w ... more | .. |
 BlueFire Renewables Receives Final Permits For Cellulosic Ethanol Facility BlueFire Renewables has announced that it has received all permits to allow start of construction of its first commercial project in Fulton, Mississippi. BlueFire has obtained its final air, w ... more |
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 Strategic Alliance To Process Jatropha Seeds Into Sustainable Crude Oil SG Biofuels has announced it has established a strategic partnership with Bunge North America, the North American operating arm of Bunge Limited, to research and develop a model to process Jatropha ... more | .. |
 Sheetz Creating E-85 'Clean Fuel Corridor' Pennsylvania motorists wishing to use E-85, a cleaner fuel consisting of 85 percent Ethanol, will soon have a more consistent source of fuel as they travel between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg. S ... more | .. |
 OriginOil Achieves Hydrogen Production Comparable To Photovoltaics OriginOil has announced that it has succeeded in producing hydrogen from the power of the sun at a level comparable to solar photovoltaics. The research breakthrough points to a highly scalable and ... more | .. |
 Growing Sorghum For Biofuel Conversion of sorghum grass to ethanol has increased with the interest in renewable fuel sources. Researchers at Iowa State University examined 12 varieties of sorghum grass grown in single and doub ... more |
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Study: Biofuel not the answer for EU European plans to switch to biofuels would result in more greenhouse gas emission, not less, an independent analysis of European Union 2020 energy targets says. ... more | .. |
 Pennycress Could Go From Nuisance Weed To New Source Of Biofuel A common roadside plant could have the right stuff to become a new source of biofuel, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) studies. Scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (A ... more | .. |
 Grasses Have Potential As Alternate Ethanol Crop Money may not grow on trees, but energy could grow in grass. Researchers at the University of Illinois have completed the first extensive geographic yield and economic analysis of potential bioenerg ... more | .. |
 Leading Advanced Biofuel Groups Meet At White House Leaders of the advanced biofuel industry personally delivered an important message to the Obama Administration this morning at a White House meeting that included representatives of the Advanced Bio ... more |
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