Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Let’s look at the three technological strategies which would lead to decarbonization of the transportation sector and the phaseout of petroleum by midcentury: 1) electrification, 2) strengthening greenhouse gas emission standards and fuel economy standards, and 3) clean liquid fuels.

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Cresforum

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

CRES Forum hosted the fifth CRES Academy session of 2024, “Biofuels 101: Driving a Cleaner Future with American Resources.” ” The session explored the role of biofuels in the U.S. ” The session explored the role of biofuels in the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

ExxonMobil’s reduction pledges do not take Scope 3 emissions into account, and the company’s leadership takes issue with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s approach to measuring emissions, as described below. Studies show Scope 3 emissions account for roughly 85% of oil and gas emissions.

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Energy and Climate Law

OCTOBER 7, 2020

It has not even been a month ago that the President of the European Commission Urula von der Leyen in her state of the Union speech announced plans of the Commission to sharpen the 2030 climate goals for the reduction of European Greenhouse Gas Emmissions (GHGs) to 55% compared to 1990 levels. The European Commission partly admitted this (p.13

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Nanotech

JULY 5, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) seeks public input on procedures for the quantification, reporting, and verification of the effect of climate-smart farming practices on the greenhouse gas (GHG) net emissions estimates associated with the production of domestic (i.e.,

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Brag

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Department of Energy (DOE) announced on January 26, 2023, $118 million in funding for 17 projects to accelerate the production of sustainable biofuels for America’s transportation and manufacturing needs.

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Brag

JANUARY 17, 2022

On December 28, 2021, EPA announced that it will hold a public virtual meeting to discuss biofuel greenhouse gas (GHG) modeling. EPA is soliciting information on the current scientific understanding of GHG modeling of land-based biofuels used in the transportation sector. The next steps EPA should take in this work area.

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Brag

OCTOBER 20, 2022

According to EMSA, the report also features techno-economic analyses and includes risk-based case studies to evaluate the potential of biofuels for the maritime sector.

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Nanotech

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

million in funding for eight university and industry projects to develop biomass feedstocks to produce affordable biofuels and bioproducts that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Million to Support Production of Low-Carbon Biofuels and Bioproducts appeared first on Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

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Brag

MARCH 2, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held a webinar on requirements under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and the premanufacture notice (PMN) process for biofuels.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Carbon intensity takes into account emissions occurring production and transportation of fuel or the fact that plants grown for biofuels actually suck CO2 out of the atmosphere. However, direct emissions statistics don’t reflect a fuel’s carbon intensity, that is, what happened before a fuel is actually used.

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Earthava

MAY 17, 2021

However, one of its most pressing current challenges is reducing the carbon emissions from transportation, a sector that is one of the highest contributors to greenhouse gases. In the US alone, the transportation sector contributed 29% of greenhouse gas emissions in 2019. A great example is a biofuel.

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Brag

AUGUST 12, 2022

” BETO partnered with T2C-Energy, LLC (T2C) to validate pilot-scale production of drop-in biofuels with a price of $3 per gallon of gas equivalent (GGE) and at least 60 percent lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than petroleum, using T2C’s TRIFTS ® process. .” GGE without the use of credits from the U.S.

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Brag

JANUARY 5, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final rule determining that renewable diesel, jet fuel, heating oil, naphtha, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) produced from canola/rapeseed oil via a hydrotreating process all meet the lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction threshold of 50 percent required for advanced biofuels and biomass-based (..)

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 13, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act is setting up a fight over the climate footprint of biofuels for aviation, with significant implications for the nation’s emissions trajectory, the U.S. transportation sector and rural communities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Under the LCFS each fuel pathway gets a unique carbon intensity (CI) based on a lifecycle analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and use of the fuel. 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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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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Law and Environment

JANUARY 26, 2022

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. The proposed tax credit would require at least a 50% reduction in lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions to receive at least a $1.25

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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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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 4, 2023

By coincidence rather than design, two different approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power sector have been under discussion by North Carolina agencies since 2021. The two approaches share goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 70% by 2030 (from a 2005 baseline) and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

Section 60103 creates a “Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund” (GGRF), which the EPA Administrator can use to make grants for the deployment of zero-emission technologies, and to carry out other greenhouse gas emission reduction activities.

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Brag

JANUARY 24, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a new effort under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to streamline the review of new chemicals that could be used to displace current, higher greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting transportation fuels. The announcement includes: New Chemicals Division Integrated Approach to Biofuels.

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Brag

MAY 18, 2022

On April 18, 2022, EPA announced the opportunity for public comment on its proposed analysis of the lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with biofuels produced from canola/rapeseed oil. Bergeson and Ligia Duarte Botelho, M.A.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The major greenhouse gas contributing to global warming could become a prime resource for biofuels that can cut car, plane and ship emissions. Read the full story in Horizon.

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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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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 13, 2020

The LCFS is a key pillar of California’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the transportation sector.

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Frontiers

JANUARY 18, 2023

This variation on the iconic US advertising slogan from the beef industry may sound funny, but it’s no joke that the current agriculture system is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions and environmental pollution. It’s what’s for dinner.

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Brag

JUNE 1, 2021

Corn Ethanol Industry for 2005-2019: Implications for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions.” ” Using a life-cycle analysis (LCA), researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory quantified the life cycle of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of fuels to compare relative GHG impacts among different fuel production pathways. .”

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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. Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification.

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Brag

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The report recommends ways to improve models, increase reporting and transparency, perform targeted verification of emissions, and other avenues that will better inform policymaking for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation fuels. Biofuel production facilities typically produce additional products.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In Virginia, where the primary source of electricity is natural gas, the emissions intensity of electricity is 679 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour (MWh), not including other greenhouse gases. According to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, utility-scale solar power produces between 394 and 447 MWh per acre per year.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

The AFIG program supports the transition to alternative fuels including electricity, compressed natural gas, renewable natural gas, liquefied natural gas, propane, hydrogen, hythane, biodiesel, ethanol, methanol, and other advanced biofuels. The transportation sector makes up 22 percent of Pennsylvania’s total greenhouse gas emissions.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 17, 2021

The innovative closed loop system will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by… Read more → Scottish distillery glenfiddich has launched a fleet of specially converted trucks that run on green biogas made from its own whisky waste.

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Brag

JANUARY 24, 2023

BETO states that methanol has “rich potential for uses that contribute to lower greenhouse gas emissions and help in the fight against climate change.” 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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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. Lufthansa and Continental Airlines followed suit shortly after.

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Brag

JUNE 10, 2021

According to DOE’s EERE, international maritime shipping represents approximately two to three percent of the world’s total annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Without addressing these emissions from maritime shipping, emissions could increase anywhere between 50 and 250 percent by 2050.

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Brag

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The press release states that in the transport sector, deploying renewables should lead to a 16 percent reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, through the use of higher shares of advanced biofuels and a more ambitious quota for renewable fuels of non-biological origin, such as hydrogen.

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