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E15 now available in North Dakota

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E15 blended gasoline is now available in four of North Dakota’s larger cities. North Dakota is the ninth state to offer the fuel blend containing 15% ethanol and 85% gasoline. The others are Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

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Coalition requests judicial review of EPA limits on higher ethanol blends

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Earlier this summer, the EPA approved a rule that allows the year-round sales of gasoline blends containing 15% ethanol. —Farmers Union Enterprises (FUE) spokesperson and South Dakota Farmers Union (SDFU) President Doug Sombke. of Nebraska and the chain of Jump Start stores have pumps would be affected.

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DSM and POET form major JV for cellulosic bioethanol; POET to decline $105M DOE loan guarantee

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A third party study commissioned by POET has shown that fuel from Project LIBERTY has greenhouse-gas intensity 111% below gasoline. DSM and POET will each hold a 50% share in the joint venture, which will be headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Earlier post.)

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State Department releases Keystone XL Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

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Varying pipeline availability has little impact on the prices that US consumers pay for refined products such as gasoline or for heavy crude demand in the Gulf Coast. If new east-west and cross-border pipelines were both completely constrained, oil sands crude could reach US and Canadian refineries by rail.

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Poet-DSM pausing production of cellulosic ethanol at Project Liberty, shifting to R blames EPA

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As part of this effort, the joint venture will use biomass stored on site or already under contract and will not purchase additional biomass at this time. The team needed to sustain R&D efforts has been evaluated and the joint venture will move forward with a reduced headcount in February.

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