Brag

DECEMBER 22, 2021

EPA is proposing the 2020, 2021, and 2022 renewable fuel standards for cellulosic biofuel, biomass-based diesel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel. Implement several regulatory changes to the RFS program.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Internationally, New Zealand passed the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Act of 2019 which targets a 24-47% reduction in biogenic methane emissions by 2050, and a 10% reduction by 2030. This appears to be the only national level agricultural methane target currently in law. Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification.

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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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Brag

MARCH 14, 2022

The letter states that adjusting these biofuel volumes more than two years after they were finalized would set a troubling precedent and impact negatively the entire agriculture and fuel supply chain. biofuel sector. Of particular concern to the letter signatories is EPA’s proposal to waive retroactively 2.96

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Brag

JUNE 1, 2021

Corn Ethanol Industry for 2005-2019: Implications for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions.” According to the retrospective analysis conducted, since 2000, corn ethanol production in the United States quadrupled due to supportive biofuels policies such as the U.S. On May 4, 2021, the U.S.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

2 – Knowledge Underlies Agriculture’s Climate Success Public agricultural research focuses on critical, widely-shared knowledge , yet public funding for agricultural research was cut by a third from 2002 to 2019. (To be most effective, easements should also be tied to using climate-friendly practices.)

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Biofuels can play a productive role when used at a sustainable level. Source EIA Monthly Biofuels Capacity and Feedstocks Update ) Using more oils and fats for fuel instead of food and animal feed has consequences for competing users of these products and for the global agricultural system. Source US Energy Information Administration.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

More than 20,000 Americans died prematurely in 2015 from tailpipe emissions, according to a 2019 study. A few years later, it introduced the Half the Oil Plan , which spelled out how to slash oil use through greater fuel efficiency and new, innovative technologies, such as electric vehicles and biofuels. Yes, premature death.

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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. The murals are meant to be appreciated individually or as a series through a self-guided walking tour; a Master Watershed Steward-guided tour has also been led during YorkFest in 2018, 2019, and 2021.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

As of 2019, the transportation sector was the largest sector source of GHG emissions in the state, accounting for more than 50% of statewide GHG emissions. [3] CCS projects must incorporate monitoring, reporting, and verification requirements to demonstrate that the GHG reductions are permanent in order to generate LCFS Credits.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2023

While the 2019 PA Farm Bill has been a triumph, the Department has been asked by many legislators, stakeholders, and members of the agriculture community what is next. billion in organic commodities in 2021, up 48% from 2019, and the number of certified organic farms increased 7% to 1,125 farms.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

By 2019, German household electricity prices were 45 percent higher than the European average. They have caused electricity prices to rise 50 percent in Germany since 2007, the first year it got more than 10 percent of its power from subsidized wind, solar, and biomass.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

In 2019 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change warned that warming of 1.5 36] And a paper published in Nature in 2019 found that “agro-ecological” farming, which has long been promoted by European governments, US NGOs, and the UN, does not improve the agricultural productivity of small African farmers. [37] and around the world.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

US electricity sector emissions decreased 34 percent from 2005 to 2019, including an astonishing 10 percent in 2019, which is the largest year-on-year decline in history. By 2019, German household electricity prices were 45 percent higher than the European average.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 6, 2021

Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), and included in the Senate EPW Committee’s legislation to reauthorize surface transportation programs earlier this year, and in July of 2019. The language arises from legislation originally introduced by EPW Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-DE) and Rep. Eligibility. The remaining $2.5 Speed Mandates.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 6, 2024

Moreover, industry giants knew that many of the technologies they presented publicly as solutions to the climate crisis – such as algae-based biofuels and carbon capture and storage (CCS) – were neither as green nor as feasible as they promised, the study reveals. Closeup of biofuel in a laboratory.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

A biofuel trade association challenged NHTSA’s consideration of California’s Zero Emissions Vehicles (ZEV) program in identifying the baseline as preempted by EPCA’s provision targeting state laws “related to fuel economy standards.” The oral argument centered on these arguments.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Harpole turned the podium over to Dr. Joe Lyou, who served from 2007 to 2019 as the Governors appointee to the SCAQMD Governing Board and now leads the Coalition for Clean Air. In 2019, Hahn described the final outcome between SCAQMD and the refineries as a sad excuse for the agreement that I thought we were working towards.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

139 ) requiring federal agencies to return to telework policies in effect at the end of 2019, largely along party lines with almost all House Republicans supporting this bill and almost all House Democrats opposing the bill. ESA will announce the process for badging ESA member for COP28 in the coming months.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Executive Branch The Invasive Species Advisory Committee will meet publicly March 6-8, the first time since the committee was disbanded in 2019. In 2019, NISC disbanded the ISAC when the Trump administration cut funding for the council by 50%. Congress House and Senate leadership announce committee leadership positions.

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