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CALSTART white paper shows nationwide tech supplier industry ready to support more efficient heavy-duty trucks and buses

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A new high-level white-paper from clean transportation industry group CALSTART shows that US companies that develop and manufacture high-efficiency, low-carbon technologies for heavy-duty vehicles are ready to support more efficient trucks and buses. Our industry can meet aggressive efficiency targets at affordable prices.

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Gevo and Mansfield Oil sign commercial off-take and strategic alliance agreements for renewable isobutanol

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has entered into a strategic marketing alliance with Mansfield Oil Company to distribute isobutanol-based fuel into the petroleum market. In addition the companies signed a commercial off-take agreement—Gevo’s second commercial off-take agreement to date and its first in the fuel industry.

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Trafigura and Yara to explore opportunities for clean ammonia as shipping fuel; infrastructure and market opportunities

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To reverse this trend the ships in use, the fuels that power them and the related infrastructure all need to change as the industry transitions to low- or zero-carbon maritime fuels. —Jose Maria Larocca, Executive Director and Co-Head of Oil Trading for Trafigura.

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BIO Calls for Policies to Nurture BioBased Chemicals and Plastics Industry in US

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The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) is calling for US Federal policies to nurture the biobased chemicals and plastics industry in the US as a means to offset the two-decade-long shift of the industry away from the US and towards the Middle East and Asia. US chemical market trade imbalance. Source: BIO.

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BIO says EPA inaction on RFS rule causing an increase in GHG emissions

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million additional cars on US roads are likely as a result of EPA inaction on finalizing the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) rules, according to a new white paper issued by The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). The so-called blend wall is an invention of the oil industry and has simply been a red herring.

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Obama Administration outlines strategy for reduction of methane emissions

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The strategy builds on progress to date and takes steps to further cut methane emissions from landfills, coal mining, and agriculture, and oil and gas systems. In the spring of 2014, EPA will assess several potentially significant sources of methane and other emissions from the oil and gas sector.

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SGB cuts time to maturity with new hybrid Jatropha from 5 to 1-2 years; $11M Series C financing

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an agricultural biotechnology and seed company enabling the production of high quality, low-cost and sustainable plant oil, protein and biomass, announced success in its program to create hybrid Jatropha which has both high yield and rapid time to maturity. Jatropha oil can be used as a biofuel feedstock.

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