Nanotech

MARCH 5, 2024

Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced on February 13, 2024, their intent to issue funding to support research and development (R&D) projects for converting algae and other wet waste feedstocks to low-carbon fuels, chemicals, and agricultural products.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 9, 2024

Richer countries tend to use less of their crops for human food, and more for animal feed and biofuels. In poorer countries, supplies are tighter and they … Continue reading Richer countries often use much of their crops for animal feed and biofuels

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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. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In a previous blog post , I briefly reviewed some of the innovative strategies to reduce methane emissions from agricultural livestock and rice operations, which have the potential to combat a significant source of global greenhouse gas emissions. Agricultural Methane Regulation. Emissions Inventorying and Baselining.

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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. agricultural products. Bergeson and Carla N. The funding is available through the Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program (HBIIP).

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 19, 2024

With conventional vehicles likely to dominate the ground fleet for the foreseeable future, University … Continue reading Despite uncertainties, cellulosic biofuels still a win for ground transportation

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Brag

APRIL 18, 2022

Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced the Home Front Energy Independence Act that would ban Russian oil and replace it with the use of biofuels produced in the United States. Biodiesel Tax Credit Extension Act of 2021.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 5, 2023

UWO students are directly involved in the … Continue reading Renewable biofuel startup company produces renewable diesel, jet fuel with UW-Oshkosh Years of sustainable fuel research allowed UWO to design a digester that converts cow manure into synthetic diesel identical to regular diesel.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

The CI is determined through a lifecycle analysis of the global warming pollution associated with the production and use of gasoline, diesel, biofuels, electricity, or other alternative fuels. California may seem like an unlikely driver of deforestation from soybean and palm oil biofuels.

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Brag

JANUARY 4, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of a draft document entitled Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft) for public comment. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Energy (DOE), prepared the document.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

Vehicle biofuels requirements. Electric vehicle and biofuel policies E. Other impacts (health, agriculture, etc.) 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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Brag

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of a draft document entitled “ Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft) ” for public comment. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Energy (DOE), prepared the document.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

Similarly, the amount of biofuels and hydrogen is reduced by approximately 15 percent each, and the amount of CCS is reduced by almost 20 percent, adding on even more cost savings as well as energy savings. This difference is enough to power more than 35 million homes. The IRA and the IIJA are a significant step forward.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Agricultural operations are almost uniquely unregulated. At the federal level, agricultural operations are exempt from laws intended to prevent pollution to water and to the air. Agricultural employees are excluded from the protections of the National Labor Relations Act. But CARB has the opportunity to change course now.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Generating $30 billion per year as Canada’s highest earning crop, the canola industry, which was originally developed by Canadian farmers, is central to the financial stability of Canada’s agricultural sector.

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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. A recent AgWeb article made a bold claim: Tesla is the biggest threat to farming today.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Read the full story from the Agricultural Research Service. Scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Peoria, Illinois, have developed a way to make a better jet biofuel from soybean oil. Read more →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2022

Among those is the growing risk that the chaos up-ends agriculture on a large scale —affecting markets for oil seeds, wheat, and other cereal grains, as well as fertilizers derived from natural gas, with effects that ripple across the world. This is not to say that Russian and Ukrainian agricultural exports are insignificant.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

CARB’s use of the LCFS as a cash cow to fund manure digesters is bad transportation fuel policy and bad agricultural policy. 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.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Renewable energy sources, such as solar, wind, and biofuels, offer numerous benefits to private farm operations and large-scale commercial agriculture. Renewable Energy On Farms In today's rapidly evolving world, the farming community is embracing renewable energy as a pathway to a sustainable and economically viable future.

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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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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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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 17, 2022

On June 17, 2022, the Department of Agriculture announced the suspension of the 2 percent biodiesel content mandate on diesel fuel sold for on-road use imposed under section 3(a)(1) of the Biofuel Development and In-State Production Incentive Act (73 P.S. § 1650.3(a)(1)) a)(1)) for out-of-state fuel sold in the Commonwealth.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This third of four blogs explains how it can help American agriculture be more resilient and climate-friendly. 1 – Realign Conservation Programs for Maximum Effectiveness Farm Bill conservation programs provide over $6 billion annually to help mitigate agriculture’s ecological impacts. Sharing knowledge is also critical.

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Acoel

JANUARY 16, 2024

This is the first of four blogs explaining how American agriculture can be more resilient and climate friendly. More detail can be found in my book, Farming for Our Future; The Science, Law, and Policy of Climate-Neutral Agriculture , and related Columbia , Harvard , NYU , and Yale Law School blogs). agriculture policy.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2024

Ag-Grid Energy The Chester County-based Ag-Grid Energy organization promotes dairy farm sustainability by converting agricultural and organic waste to energy, enhancing nutrient management practices thereby improving farm viability and financial stability. Visit the Mid-Atlantic Hydrogen Hub website for more information.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2023

According to BETO, the goal is to identify catalysts that can make beneficial products, such as sustainable aviation fuel, efficiently and selectively.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of the Interior, Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution, among others. See Public Law 101-606 (11/16/90) 104 Stat. 3096-3104, § 101(b). Thirteen federal entities participate in the Program. 1] See Nos.

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Brag

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

million in funding for projects focused on the production of cost-effective and low-carbon biofuels. Department of Agriculture (USDA). As part of a White House roundtable to launch the Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) Grand Challenge to decarbonize the aviation sector by 2050 , on September 9, 2021, the U.S.

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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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Brag

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBCS) and Rural Utilities Service (RUS) announced a request for information (RFI) and notice of public listening sessions on how to implement newly allocated funding opportunities under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Bergeson and Carla N.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 18, 2023

Specialists from Penn State and other organizations will be on hand to answer questions about crop production, weed identification, water quality and biofuels. Visitors can ask questions about crop and nutrient management, no-till practices, organic farming and sustainable agriculture, and even bring weeds for experts to identify.

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Brag

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The selected projects all directly contribute to producing renewable biofuels and biobased chemicals and materials. Working with scientists at the Agile BioFoundry (ABF) consortium, these industry and academic groups will leverage national laboratory capabilities to address challenges in biomanufacturing.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

12) Department of Agriculture Another part of the government that has actually done a good job on reporting is, surprisingly, the U.S. Department of Agriculture. USDA also awarded 59 domestic biofuel projects totaling $25 million. (Opening Oct. That’s a surprise because USDA isn’t exactly a central player in the climate space.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2024

In the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Shell funding will help to assess Pennsylvania’s role as an energy producer in the Northeast, focusing on the demand for natural gas and the potential of renewables and biofuels as the Commonwealth explores a future of net-zero carbon emissions that also allows for economic vitality.

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EPA

JANUARY 15, 2021

Agriculture Advisor to Administrator Wheeler. We know that farmers and ranchers are the original stewards of the land and should be our natural partners Administrator Andrew Wheeler has made it a priority of EPA to engage more effectively with the agriculture community and rebuild trust with rural America. By Carrie Vicenta Meadows.

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