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EPA Resets Ethanol Rules To Reflect Reality: Cellulosic Sources Don't Exist

Green Car Reports

Environmental Protection Agency has faced a dilemma: What to do about its rules that millions of gallons of cellulosic ethanol be blended into the U.S. Now, The Detroit News reports that the agency has decided to accept reality: Supplies of that fuel simply don''t exist, so the rules are being.' For many months now, the U.S.

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EPA proposes slight ease in 2018 renewable fuel volumes compared to 2017; gearing up for future reset

Green Car Congress

For the first time, EPA is proposing to reduce the advanced biofuel and total renewable fuel volumes for 2018 by the same amount as it would reduce the required volume of cellulosic biofuel. EPA is beginning technical analysis that will inform a future rule to reset the statutory volumes for cellulosic, advanced, and total biofuels.

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EPA to take away proposed EV volumes from biofuel mixing rule

Baua Electric

Maximum credit generated underneath the RFS are for mixing liquid fuels equivalent to corn-based ethanol into fuel. The ones estimates had been integrated throughout the cellulosic credit score pond within the proposal. The post EPA to take away proposed EV volumes from biofuel mixing rule appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.

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US cellulosic ethanol goals falling short

Green Cars News

The EPA may have issued a report anticipating 100million gallons of cellulosic ethanol production in the USA by 2010, but it may have put too many of its eggs into one basket. This in turn will offer a substantial boost to legitimate cellulosic refiners and could get it to that 100million gallon level.

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UK and Brazil team up for biofuels

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Biofuels Green cars Latest news bioethanol biofuels Brazil cellulosic bioethanol ethanol TMO Renewables UK' TMO Renewables (TMO), based in the UK, has announced that it has formed a joint venture with Usina Santa Maria Ltd to build a commercial production plant in [.].

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Researchers make breakthrough in ethanol production

Green Cars News

Cellulosic ethanol may soon be more cost competitive than ever thanks to a breakthrough by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. They have identified a key gene in the bacterium Zymomomas mobilis that when over-expressed delivers increased tolerance to acetic acid.

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BP ditches second-generation biofuel plant

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Plans for the facility in the Highlands County of Florida were originally announced in 2008, with the intention of turning thousands of acres of energy crops into 36 million gallons per year of cellulosic ethanol. The decision will come as [.].

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