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EPA finds that both biodiesel and renewable diesel from palm oil fail to meet GHG reduction threshold for RFS program

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Source: EPA. EPA has published a Notice of Data Availability (NODA) on this to provide an opportunity to comment on the analyses. EPA has published a Notice of Data Availability (NODA) on this to provide an opportunity to comment on the analyses. Source: EPA. Simplified palm oil biofuel lifecycle system diagram.

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Aemetis upgrades India biodiesel plant

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The Aemetis plant is the only distilled biodiesel producer in India and is one of the only plants in Asia capable of producing large supplies of biodiesel that meet the European Union (ISCC) standards, Aemetis says.

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New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

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Mha (20%) of the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2010, surpassing the area of Belgium and causing an annual carbon emission from peat decomposition of 230–310 Mt CO 2 e. Slightly more than half of the GHG emissions for these biofuels in the EPA’s analysis came from land use change. Earlier post.).

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