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• Ethanol groups challenge Low Carbon Fuel Standard

  
  Green cars: latest news — Authority: 485
  The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and Growth Energy have filed a complaint in the Federal District Court in Fresno, California, which challenges the constitutionality of the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard.The two organisations believes that the standard violates both the Supremacy Clause and the Commerce ...
  2 days ago

• Harkin, Grassley see same problem for biodiesel credit, different obstacles

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 659
  If Congress doesn’t act soon, biodiesel producers will lose a $1 per gallon tax credit. Creative Commons photo by rrelam via Flick The credit, which is given for biodiesel made from soybean oil or yellow grease and animal fats, helps to maintain the competitiveness of the domestically-produced fuel, and experts ...
  1 week ago

• Will the E15 15% Ethanol Mix Be a Problem For You?

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 123
  Its looks like it will be August 2010 before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency comes in with the whether or not of the adding of 15% ethanol to gasoline fuel called E15 instead or in addition to the 10% E10 mix used widely now.  Much press and media attention is being touted for both views, one being its great ...
  1 week ago

• Ethanol Lobbyists Make Last-Ditch Effort to Delay Calif.’s Low-Carbon Fuel Rules

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 160
  Ethanol lobbyists in Washington Tuesday made a last-ditch attempt to send Californias low-carbon fuel regulation back to the drafting stage, with a plea to a key state official to reject the rule on the grounds that its architects did not follow proper procedures. In a letter to Susan Lapsley, director of Californias ...
  1 week ago

• AltAir in Biofuels Deal with 14 Airlines

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 668
  cleantech , Aviation , Biofuels Gregory T. Huang wrote: Seattle-based AltAir Fuels announced yesterday it has signed agreements with 14 airlines to negotiate the purchase of up to 750 million gallons of camelina-based jet fuel and diesel. AltAir plans to produce the biofuels at a new facility in ...
  1 week ago

• Biofuel companies still on shaky ground despite wins with airlines

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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• Biofuel companies still on shaky ground despite wins with airlines

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 159
  Bookmark this categoryWhen it comes to biofuel adoption, the airlines are way ahead of the automakers. In August, synthetic fuel maker Rentech signed a deal to 1.5 million gallons of diesel made from sewer sludge to power ground equipment for eight airlines at LAX. Today, that same company and competitor AltAir ...
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• ARPA-E Spending $100 Million on Batteries and Biofuels

  
  CleanBeta — Authority: 127
  The U.S Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is offering a second round of grants for innovative energy research projects that accelerate innovation in biofuels , electric vehicle batteries and carbon-capture technologies. For biofuels, ARPA-E is seeking new ways to make ...
  2 weeks ago

• Breakthrough Bacteria That Makes Butanol From CO2

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 123
  UCLA researchers at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have genetically modified a cyanobacterium to consume carbon dioxide in a set of steps to produce the liquid fuel isobutanol .  Isobutanol is a form of the alcohol butanol, a favorite for many in a transition away from fossil fuels as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Arpa-e funding for non-photosynthetic renewable fuel synthesis

  
  swimming freestyle — Authority: 442
  The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (Arpa-e) announced this week new funding into the further development of renewable fuels.  Past funding has gone to photosynthetic means, such as algae and bacteria , and this latest round funds non-photosynthetic process development. Of particular interest involves ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sandia Might Have a Part of the Carbon Back to Fuel Process

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 123
  Using concentrated solar energy for power, a research team from Sandia National Laboratories is building a prototype device intended to chemically “reenergize” carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide using concentrated solar power.  Carbon monoxide could then be used to serve as a building block to synthesize a ...
  2 weeks ago

• A New Enzyme to Break Free Hydrogen

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 123
  A team from the University of Oxford in the UK and CNRS in France has developed an optimized system that will produce hydrogen gas. Oxfords Hydrogen Release Graphic Powered by light’s energy and using an hydrogenase and photosensitizer co-attached to a TiO 2 nanoparticle the lab sized apparatus ...
  3 weeks ago

• RFA Provides Former Vice President with Ethanol Facts

  
  AgNewsWire — Authority: 91
  The Renewable Fuels Association wants former Vice President Al Gore to know that he was right the first time about ethanol and other biofuels. RFA CEO Bob Dinneen has written a letter to Gore challenging the chapter about ethanol in his new book “Our Choice.” Full Release
  3 weeks ago

• EPA Likely to Lift Ethanol Blend Limits

  
  CleanBeta — Authority: 127
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it plans to issue a final decision on the proposed increase to the allowable ethanol content in fuel by mid 2010, according to a letter sent today to Growth Energy, a biofuels trade group. In March 2009, Growth Energy requested a waiver to allow for the use of up ...
  3 weeks ago

• EPA’s Decision to Delay Its Review of Ethanol Content of Gasoline

  
  Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog — Authority: 114
  In what is considered to be a blow to U.S. corn growers, the EPA today sent a letter to the Gen. Wesley Clark chaired trade association “Growth Energy” indicating that the EPA needed more time to complete tests on how an increase by 5% (from 10% ethanol to 15% ethanol) in ethanol content may damage engines and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Renewable Fuels Association Responds to EPA Announcement

  
  World Dairy Diary — Authority: 431
  Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is postponing its decision whether to allow for the blending of up to 15 percent ethanol in conventional gasoline. Increasing the amount of ethanol blended into gasoline is critical to both ensuring that the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) is a ...
  3 weeks ago

• EPA says not now to ethanol boost in gas

  
  Political Fix — Authority: 598
  WASHINGTON — They brought in Democratic Party muscle and a Minnesota Vikings linebacker to help make the case. Even so, the ethanol industry and the St. Louis-based National Corn Growers Association  took a jarring hit hit this morning when the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would ...
  4 weeks ago

• EPA puts off higher ethanol blend decision until mid-2010

  
  Nebraska Corn Kernels — Authority: 124
  The Environmental Protection Agency has sent a letter (.pdf) to Growth Energy - the group the initially asked EPA to allow the use of ethanol blends of up to 15 percent - saying that it will be mid-2010 before it issues a final decision on the request. While EPA is waiting for additional testing data, it did note ...
  4 weeks ago

• 38 Onshore Oil and Natural Gas Lease Sales on Public Lands Set for 2010

  
  Candid Conservatives — Authority: 139
  This may indicate one of two things. More oil and gas or more lawsuits by enviroMentalists. NEWS BLAZE Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Tuesday the department next year will hold 38 onshore oil and natural gas lease sales on public lands, mostly in the West, including one in Alaska. The announcement ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Merits of Ethanol Fuel

  
  Kabuki Loans — Authority: 129
  1. Crude oil from which gasoline is produced is fast getting depleted and nations are bracing themselves for facing this situation by looking for alternative sources for their fuel needs. Renewable fuels can be the answer to this predicament and one such renewable fuel is ethanol. Since it is produced from crops ...
  4 weeks ago

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