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United Airlines Investing $30M In Biofuels Producer
2015-07-01 16:47:32| Airlines - Topix.net
United Airlines says it is investing $30 million in a biofuels company to reduce its vulnerability to oil-price shocks and limits on carbon emissions from planes. United officials said Tuesday that they expect to begin receiving fuel from Fulcrum BioEnergy Inc. in 2018 and could be taking 90 million gallons a year by 2021.
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ADM, biofuels supporters challenge U.S. ethanol 'blend wall'
2015-06-26 07:27:57| Agriculture - Topix.net
Archer Daniels Midland Co and ethanol supporters on Thursday challenged a U.S. government plan for biofuels use, saying it will not push past the "blend wall" because of a niche market for biofuels credits. Hundreds gathered in Kansas City, Kansas, for a hearing to criticize the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on a proposal for biofuels announced in late May. The hearing comes just weeks after the EPA proposed cutting volumetric use targets below those laid out by Congress in 2007.
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Unlocking fermentation secrets open the door to new biofuels
2015-06-24 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have, for the first time, uncovered the complex interdependence and orchestration of metabolic reactions, gene regulation, and environmental cues of clostridial metabolism, providing new insights for advanced biofuel development. “This work advances our fundamental understanding of the complex, system-level process of clostridial acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation,” explained Ting Lu, an assistan…
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Brazil's biofuels hit new sweetspot
2015-06-24 00:45:53| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The changing fortunes of Brazil's ethanol farmers
EPA defends controversial biofuels program at Senate hearing
2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. environmental regulator on Thursday defended its handling of the nation's controversial renewable fuels program at a congressional hearing, the first since its new biofuels targets last month provoked a furor among corn farmers and oil refiners. At the hearing by the Senate subcommittee on regulatory affairs and federal management, U.S. lawmakers criticized the agency for years-long delays to quotas and for last month setting unattainable targets for the amount of corn-based ethanol and...
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