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Back TO HOMEOil Incentives Have to Be Talked about, Too, by the Candidates
by Walt Wendland (Des Moines Register/Iowa Renewable Fuels Association) ...When presidential candidates have discussed reforming the ethanol incentive, several
July 01, 2011 Read Full Article
GI Joe, Funding Man from Head to Toe: The DoD and Drop-In Biofuels at Scale
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) As the Defense Department looks at its options to directly jump-start drop-in biofuels production at
July 01, 2011 Read Full Article
Oil Independence for a Stronger America Act Introduced
by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com) Today (June 29, 2011) U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Tom Carper (D-DE), Tom Udall (D-NM) and
June 30, 2011 Read Full Article
Editorial: Cut the Ethanol Subsidy, But Be Fair
(StarTribune) Why is one fuel being targeted but another -- oil -- isn't? ...The best way to pay down the
June 27, 2011 Read Full Article
Biodiesel Industry Revs up Ad Push
by Darren Goode (Politico) ...The biodiesel industry is embarking on a multimillion-dollar nationwide outreach campaign — its first ever —
June 27, 2011 Read Full Article
EPA Proposes 15.2 Billion Gallon Biofuel Mandate for 2012; 50 Percent Jump in Advanced Biofuels
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ...EPA proposes to mandate the blending of 15.2 billion gallons of renewable fuel into the
June 27, 2011 Read Full Article
Next Decade of Oil Companies' Tax Breaks Worth $44 Billion
(Associated Press) Oil companies' tax breaks, if left in place, would cost the U.S. Treasury $44 billion over the next
June 17, 2011 Read Full Article
Navy on Coal-to-Liquids: No, Thanks
by Ben Geman (The Hill/E2Wire) A top Navy official said Friday (June 3,2011) that the department isn’t interested in developing
June 17, 2011 Read Full Article
USDA Announces Projects to Provide Increased Renewable Energy Production, Reduce Reliance on Foreign Oil
(US Department of Agriculture) Projects Further Obama Administration's Effort to Produce Clean Home-Grown Energy, Create Sustainable Rural Jobs Agriculture Secretary Tom
June 17, 2011 Read Full Article
Study Finds Biodiesel is Bright Spot In Job Creation
(National Biodiesel Board) America’s Advanced Biofuel Supporting Thousands of New Jobs While Generating Billions in Household Income, Tax Revenues The U.S. biodiesel
June 15, 2011 Read Full Article
US Official: Biofuels 'Scapegoat' for High Food Prices
by Steve Baragona (Voice of America) ...(Agriculture) Secretary (Tom)Vilsack told a luncheon gathering in Washington not to believe everything
June 15, 2011 Read Full Article
US Senate Defeats Coburn Amendment: Industry Reaction
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Washington, on a cloture vote in the Senate to proceed to an amendment that
June 15, 2011 Read Full Article
Fuel Retailer Opposes Thune/Klobuchar Bill
by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com) Earlier today, Sens. John Thune (R-SD) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) created waves when they announced their
June 14, 2011 Read Full Article
Thune/Klobuchar Bill Endorsed by Ethanol Industry
by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com) Senators John Thune (R-SD) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) along with a bipartisan group of nine other
June 14, 2011 Read Full Article
GM Chief Pushing for Higher Gas Taxes
by David Shepardson and Christina Rogers (The Detroit News) General Motors Co. CEO Dan Akerson wants the federal gas
June 07, 2011 Read Full Article
Bloomberg Report Says Biochemical Pathway Attractive to Investors
by Kris Bevill (Ethanol Producer Magazine) Private financial support for technology acceleration continues to be important, and certain technologies are
June 07, 2011 Read Full Article
Filmmaker Puts His Energy behind a Coal-Mining Movie
by Mark Jenkins (The Washington Post) Bill Haney devotes only one-third of his time to filmmaking. But at this precise
June 03, 2011 Read Full Article
Open Fuel Standard Legislation Is Bad for the Environment; Bad for Biofuels
(Advanced Biofuels USA) Shale Natural Gas Does Not Belong in Pro-Environmental Legislation A new legislative analysis by Advanced Biofuels USA concludes
June 02, 2011 Read Full Article
Is the Open Fuel Standard Good for Advanced Biofuels or for the USA? Don’t Think So!
by Robert Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA) A proposal called the Open Fuel Standard (OFS) has recently been included in a
June 02, 2011 Read Full Article
Senate Dems to Biden: Deficit Deal with GOP Must Kill Oil Industry Tax Breaks
(The Hill/E2Wire) Twenty Senate Democrats are ramping up political pressure on the White House to ensure that any deficit-reduction deal
June 01, 2011 Read Full Article
Military Sets Its Sights on Sustainability
by Richard Baillie (Renewable Energy World) A host of renewable technologies are now winning the hearts and minds of military
May 31, 2011 Read Full Article
Stop Moving the Goal Posts, and Two More Principles for an Advanced Ethanol Policy that Works
by Brooke Coleman (Advanced Ethanol Council/Biofuels Digest) ...Often lost in the counter-productive and backward-facing public obsession with corn ethanol are
May 31, 2011 Read Full Article
25x'25 Alliance Responds to 'Draconian' Cuts to Farm Energy Program
(25 x '25) The 25x'25 Alliance recognizes that all sectors must make sacrifices to achieve true reductions in spending and the national
May 26, 2011 Read Full Article
Taking It to the Hill: Making the Case for Advanced Biofuels to Congress
by Mike McAdams (Biorefining Magazine/Advanced Biofuels Association) I recently had the privilege of testifying before the Energy and Power Subcommittee
May 26, 2011 Read Full Article
Presidential Memorandum--Federal Fleet Performance
(The White House) The Federal Government operates the largest fleet of light duty vehicles in America. We owe a responsibility
May 24, 2011 Read Full Article
Ethanol Subsidy Phaseout is Necessary, Pawlenty Says
by Jason Clayworth (Des Moines Register/Juice) What once would have been considered a bold, even politically suicidal, call to do
May 24, 2011 Read Full Article
Do Biofuels Reduce Greenhouse Gases?
by Kevin Bullis (MIT's Technology Review) A new study fuels the debate over the impact of growing crops for fuel. Greenhouse-gas
May 20, 2011 Read Full Article
MIT Adds to the Cap-and-Trade Debate
by James Ott (Aviation Week) A report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) should be required reading for environmental
May 20, 2011 Read Full Article
Vote to Hike Taxes on Oil Fails in Senate, 52-48; Dems Vow to Revive It
by Andrew Restuccia (The Hill/E2Wire) The Senate on Tuesday rejected a bill that would have ended $21 billion worth of
May 18, 2011 Read Full Article
Why It’s Wrong to Agree with the Malthusians about Ethanol
by Robert Zubrin (Pajamas Media) Rising food prices are the result of rising oil prices, not a growing market for
May 17, 2011 Read Full Article
Letter to Congress From U.S. Biofuels Leaders: Don't Mess With RFS
(Advanced Biofuels Association/PR NewsWire) Sending a significant signal of industry unity to Capitol Hill, the leading advocates of the U.S.
May 17, 2011 Read Full Article
House Armed Services Committee OK’s “Filthy Fuels” in New DOD Budget Bill
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Washington, the House Armed Services Committee OK’d a defense budget bill that exempted the Department
May 16, 2011 Read Full Article
Senate Dems to Revive Oil Tax Breaks Repeal Push during Broad Deficit Fight
by Andrew Restucci (The Hill/E2Wire) Senate Democrats intend to attach a measure repealing billions of dollars in oil industry tax breaks
May 12, 2011 Read Full Article
Tim Johnson Calls for End to Oil Subsidies; Thune Disagrees
by Denise Ross (The Daily Republic) Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., called for an end to taxpayer subsidies for oil
May 12, 2011 Read Full Article
National Farmers Union Calls for End to Oil Industry Subsidies
by Julie Harker (Brownfield) National Farmers Union President Roger Johnson is calling on Congress to end tax subsidies for the oil
May 11, 2011 Read Full Article
Ohio’s Sen. Brown Floats Oil Tax-Break Repeal Plan
by Ben Geman (The Hill/E2Wire) Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), who is likely to face a tough reelection battle next year,
May 10, 2011 Read Full Article
Democrats See Strategy to End Big Oil Tax Breaks
by Carl Hulse (New York Times) Linking two of the politically volatile issues of the moment, Senate Democrats say they
May 09, 2011 Read Full Article
New Biofuel to Spar with Ethanol
by Philip Brasher (Des Moines Register) Imagine filling up the car on a fuel that isn't made from oil but
May 09, 2011 Read Full Article
Five Big Problems with Big Oil’s New Analysis of RFS Implementation Issues
by Geoff Cooper (Renewable Fuels Association) The Energy Policy Research Foundation (EPRINC) recently released a white paper inexplicably suggesting that the
May 06, 2011 Read Full Article
Dems To Force Vote On Oil Subsidies
by Elise Foley (Huffington Post) Eager to prove that Republicans don't want to end oil subsidies despite public GOP opposition,
May 04, 2011 Read Full Article
Grassley-Conrad Bill Boosts Domestic Energy Production
(Senator Chuck Grassley) Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Kent Conrad of North Dakota today introduced bipartisan legislation to update ethanol
May 04, 2011 Read Full Article
OpEd: A Diverse Biofuels Economy
by Tom Vilsack (USDA/The Daily Mail) ...Last year, the United States produced more than 13 billion gallons of ethanol with
May 04, 2011 Read Full Article
Sen. Bingaman Eyes Committee Vote on Clean-Energy Agency
by Ben Geman (The Hill/E2Wire) Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) is planning a committee vote
May 04, 2011 Read Full Article
Next-Generation Biofuels Panel Discussion
(Milken Institute Global Conference) With oil prices spiking and concern over climate change growing, biofuels hold tremendous appeal. But they
May 04, 2011 Read Full Article
Energy Information Administration Releases Its Annual Energy Outlook 2011
by Erin Voegele (Ethanol Producer Magazine) The U.S. Energy Information Administration released the full version of its Annual Energy Outlook
May 03, 2011 Read Full Article
Reducing Oil Dependence and Creating a Better Environment: The Promise of a Bio-Based Society
by Steen Riisgaard (Huffington Post Green) ...More complicated types of biomass -- corn cobs, wood chips, waste paper -- are
May 03, 2011 Read Full Article
Baucus Crafts Oil Tax Break Repeal Plan Amid High Profit Reports
by Ben Geman (The Hill/E2Wire) Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) struck while the iron was hot Thursday and
May 03, 2011 Read Full Article
GasHole: Dirty Oil and the Biofuel Myth
by Allison Kilkenny (Huffington Post) This week marked the world premiere of GasHole, a new documentary film (narrated by Peter Gallagher)
May 02, 2011 Read Full Article
USDA & EPA Tour REG Biodiesel Plant in Newton, IA
by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com) Renewable Energy Group (REG) executives hosted USDA Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson
May 02, 2011 Read Full Article
John Boehner: Oil Companies Should Pay Their 'Fair Share'
by Darren Goode (Politico) House Speaker John Boehner says he’s open to calls from the White House to curb some
April 28, 2011 Read Full Article
Twin Cities Clean City Coalition Top Gas Use Reducer
by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com) The U.S. Department of Energy has released a national ranking of Clean Cities programs that have
April 28, 2011 Read Full Article
USDA Revises Plan to Boost Biofuel Investment
by Ben Lefebvre (Dow Jones Newswires/Denver Post) The U.S. Department of Agriculture is embarking on a revised biorefinery-finance program that
April 28, 2011 Read Full Article
Franken Tours Poet Ethanol Plant
(AlbertLeaTribune.com) Get ethanol at the pumps. That’s what the farmer owners of the Poet Glenville ethanol plant told Sen. Al Franken
April 28, 2011 Read Full Article
Shell Oil President Odum Calls For Biofuel Incentives
by Ryan Tracy (Dow Jones NewsWires/NASDAQ.com) Shell Oil Co. President Marvin Odum gave a bullish outlook for biofuels Tuesday, saying
April 27, 2011 Read Full Article
Obama to Congress: End ‘Unwarranted Tax Breaks’ for Oil Companies
by Zachary A. Goldfarb (The Washington Post) President Obama urged Congress on Tuesday to take “immediate action” to end tax subsidies
April 27, 2011 Read Full Article
Why Only Fossil Fuels Deserve Subsidies — Just Ask Paul Ryan
by Kirsten Korosec (BNET) ...How can maintaining subsidies for the fossil fuels industry, while cutting incentives and funding for cleaner
April 22, 2011 Read Full Article
Bryan: DOE Shifting Focus from Gasoline Replacement to Entire Barrel of Oil
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ...Paul Bryan, program manager of the DOE’s Office of Biomass, said at the Advanced Biofuesl
April 21, 2011 Read Full Article
Freshman Republican Breaks Rank On Oil Subsidies
by Dan Froomkin (Huffington Post) A freshman Republican congressman from Wisconsin has broken rank with his GOP colleagues by calling
April 15, 2011 Read Full Article
US Navy Spartan Energy Ethos Means Biofuels (Four Commercial-Scale Biorefineries) and Energy Efficiency for the Fleet and the Country. For How Long? In Perpetuity ...
by Robert E. Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA) On April 12th at the Navy League’s 2011 Sea-Air-Space Exposition, the leaders of
April 14, 2011 Read Full Article
Study: Gas from ‘Fracking’ Worse than Coal on Climate
by Ben Geman (The Hill) Cornell University professors will soon publish research that concludes natural gas produced with a
April 14, 2011 Read Full Article
Lack of Input for EPA Biofuels Report Could Impact Future Policy
by Kris Bevill (Ethanol Producer Magazine) The first triennial report on biofuels being drafted for Congress by the U.S. EPA
April 13, 2011 Read Full Article
Advanced Biofuels Leader Tells Senate Committee Consistency Is Key
(Advanced Biofuels Association) A consistent commitment by Congress that avoids the ups and downs of public opinion will be crucial
April 13, 2011 Read Full Article
DOE Gearing Up For Quadrennial Technology Review
by Matt Hourihan (Innovation Policy Blog) One of the big gaps in federal energy innovation policy has been the lack
April 13, 2011 Read Full Article
House Appropriations Committee Releases Final Continuing Resolution; Incrementally Positive for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology Industries
(Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati) On April 12, 2011, the House Appropriations Committee released the final Continuing Resolution bill for
April 13, 2011 Read Full Article
Protecting Big Oil at the Expense of Consumers
by Daniel J. Weiss and Richard W. Caperton (GreenTechMedia) Paul Ryan’s budget proposal eviscerates green technology projects, but leaves massive
April 11, 2011 Read Full Article
Next-Gen Biofuel Depends on Subsidies, Senate Told
by Philip Brasher (Des Moines Register) Even as President Barack Obama renewed his push for next-generation biofuels, an industry official
April 04, 2011 Read Full Article
Obama Announces Clean Fleets Partnership
(SustainableBusiness.com) ...The public-private partnership aims to assist large companies in reducing diesel and gasoline use in their fleets by incorporating
April 04, 2011 Read Full Article
What About Diesel? Group Makes the Case that Obama's Energy Plan Should Include Diesel Fuel.
by Josh Cable (Industry Week) The nonprofit Diesel Technology Forum responded to President Obama's energy speech earlier this week by
April 03, 2011 Read Full Article
Leveling the Playing Field for Algae-Based Fuels
by Mary Rosenthal (Biofuels Digest/Algal Biomass Organization) ...Our federal tax policy actually discourages the production of low-carbon, renewable algae-based fuels,
March 31, 2011 Read Full Article
Obama Talks Energy Policy as Gas Prices Climb
(AP/MSNBC) ...Even if Obama's efforts can reduce U.S. demand for foreign oil, experts say that is unlikely to bring down
March 30, 2011 Read Full Article
Will the DOE Loan Guarantee Program Be Chopped by Congress, as US Falls to 3rd in Cleantech Investment?
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Washington, 34 cleantech CEOs, are trying to make sure the DOE doesn’t drop
March 30, 2011 Read Full Article
Alt Energy Groups Ask Congress to Support DOE Programs
by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com) A multitude of leading energy trade associations today wrote to Congressional leaders with a request for Congress
March 29, 2011 Read Full Article
Hold the Thin Green Line by Protecting Farmers
by Wesley Clark (Kansas City Star) ...The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City credits agriculture with being at the forefront
March 28, 2011 Read Full Article
Combatting Today’s High Gas Prices
by Rep. Bruce Braley (D-Waterloo) (GlobeGazette) ...For too long, we’ve depended on foreign countries for our oil — and we’ve
March 28, 2011 Read Full Article
Proposed Senate Bill S.559: Securing America’s Future with Energy and Sustainable Technologies Act Comment on the Bill from an Advanced Biofuels Perspective
by Robert E. Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA) US Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Tim Johnson (D-SD) recently introduced Senate Bill
March 23, 2011 Read Full Article
Budgets & Biotech: Congress Urged to Continue Supporting Advanced Biofuels
(BIOtechNOW) Industry leaders point out that biotech-enabled advanced biofuels spur job growth and reduce U.S. dependence on imported oil. Three leading
March 16, 2011 Read Full Article
U.S. Sen. Grassley: Ethanol and Energy
(IowaPolitics.com) Floor Speech of Sen. Chuck Grassley Ethanol and Energy Independence Delivered Monday, March 07, 2011 ...We must look to alternative
March 16, 2011 Read Full Article
USDA Seeks Applications for Renewable Energy Funding, Loan Guarantees
(US Department of Agriculture) Funds Will Help Win the Future by Spurring Investment to Increase the Production and Use of
March 15, 2011 Read Full Article
Amid Rising Gas Prices, President Obama Calls for Long-Term Energy Strategy
by Andrew Restuccia (The Hill/E2Wire) President Obama called Friday for a "comprehensive energy strategy" in which the administration continues to
March 14, 2011 Read Full Article
ACE says Ethanol Better Solution than Tapping into Oil Reserves
(American Coalition for Ethanol/Ethanol Producer Magazine) With oil prices now in triple digits and gas prices averaging 75 cents higher
March 13, 2011 Read Full Article
Klobuchar, Johnson Introduce Legislation to Promote Domestic Energy Production
(Senator Amy Klobuchar) Bill would reduce U.S. dependence on oil, strengthen rural economies, and spur innovation in the energy sector U.S.
March 11, 2011 Read Full Article
Budget Hawks: Does US Need to Give Gas and Oil Companies $41 Billion a Year?
by Mark Clayton (Christian Science Monitor) As President Obama and Congress look for budget cuts, some experts say federal energy
March 10, 2011 Read Full Article
Ethanol Industry Feels Squeeze as Congress Tightens Belt
by Elana Shor (Greenwire/New York Times) ...Major oil companies, Hartwig added, "make $50 billion a quarter in profits, yet
March 08, 2011 Read Full Article
Too Vulnerable to Reliance on Foreign Oil
by Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind (IndyStar) ...Washington over the years has failed to focus sufficient attention on our oil vulnerability
March 07, 2011 Read Full Article
Opportunities to Reduce Potential Duplication in Government Programs, Save Tax Dollars, and Enhance Revenue
by Gene L. Dodaro (Comptroller General of the United States/US Government Accountability Office) ...Domestic ethanol production: Congress supported domestic ethanol production through
March 07, 2011 Read Full Article
The Washington Compromise
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) A unified biofuels policy? The hour is nigh. As Benjamin Franklin was reputed to say
March 03, 2011 Read Full Article
House Thwarts Dem Bid to Kill Oil Tax Breaks
by Ben Geman and Mike Lillis (The Hill/E2Wire) House Democrats on Tuesday used debate on a short-term spending package to
March 02, 2011 Read Full Article
Sustainability and the Environment I: The Intersection of Biofuels/Bioenergy & Climate Change Legislation
by Brent Yacobucci (Congressional Research Service) The CRS (Congressional research Service) is a “nonpartisan, analytical, research and reference arm of
March 01, 2011 Read Full Article
USDA Expands Efforts to Develop Crop Insurance for Biofuels Producers
(US Department of Agriculture) Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced February 25, 2011, that USDA will soon seek proposals to study
February 28, 2011 Read Full Article
Is It Time for an Oil Tax?
by Henry Blodget (Huffington Post) ...Over the long term, of course, given a finite supply of oil and ever-increasing demand
February 25, 2011 Read Full Article
The Magoo Congress
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ...The response to all this worry over oil? The United States House of Representatives in
February 24, 2011 Read Full Article
INTERVIEW-Mideast Unrest Shows Need for Alternative Fuels-Mabus
by Andrea Shalal-Esa (Reuters) Oil price rises spurred by spreading unrest in the Middle East underscore why the U.S. military
February 24, 2011 Read Full Article
Mideast Turmoil Hits U.S. Wallets
by General Wesley Clark (Politico) ...How long chaos continues in that critical corner of that world remains unknown. But one
February 24, 2011 Read Full Article
Why We Still Don't Know How Much Money Goes to Fossil Energy
by Mike Casey (Renewable Energy World) The national conversation about wasteful welfare for highly profitable dirty energy corporations has gone
February 23, 2011 Read Full Article
Obama Stands Behind Plan to End Tax Breaks for Industry
(Fuel Fix) President Barack Obama today defended his plan to raise tens of billions of dollars for the federal government by
February 23, 2011 Read Full Article
The Money Identity, the Bond Supremacy, the Washington Ultimatum: Biofuels and Loan Guarantees
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ...Essentially, despite rising banking sector profits and good results from stress tests, the bank financing
February 22, 2011 Read Full Article
Top Dems Call on House GOP to Eliminate Oil Industry Tax Breaks
by Andrew Restuccia (The Hill/E2Wire) Top Senate Democrats are calling on House Republicans to agree to a plan to eliminate
February 18, 2011 Read Full Article
RIN-Tin-Tin: Will the RINs Mechanism Save the Day, Power Biofuels to New Heights?
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ...RINs- those pesky Renewable Information Numbers that have so many digits they give 140-character tweets
February 08, 2011 Read Full Article
Military Defends Alternative Fuel Efforts
by Joshua Philipp (The Epoch Times) A movement in the military to develop affordable alternative fuels may be moving the industry
February 06, 2011 Read Full Article
Get the Energy Sector Off the Dole
by Jeffrey Leonard (Washington Monthly) Why ending all government subsidies for fuel production will lead to a cleaner energy future—and why
February 05, 2011 Read Full Article
10 to watch: Senators on Energy
by Darren Goode (Politico) With Republicans controlling the House and ramping up oversight and investigations of the Obama administration, focus
February 05, 2011 Read Full Article
Biofuels Play Increasing Role in Reduced U.S. Oil Imports & Reduced Vulnerability
by Jon H. Harsch (Agri-Pulse) ...Energy Committee Chair Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M. pointed to the EIA forecast that after peaking in
February 04, 2011 Read Full Article
RAND Van Winkle: an Inside Look at RAND’s Controversial Survey of Military Alternative Fuels
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ...A large number of leading companies, and industry associations, reported that they had had no
February 03, 2011 Read Full Article
State of the Union Talks Trade and Biofuels
(AgWired.com) President Obama made some folks in the ag industry happy with his State of the Union (SOTU) address Tuesday talking about
February 01, 2011 Read Full Article
Energy Industry Braces for Cuts
by Darren Samuelsohn (Politico) ... In his State of the Union speech last Tuesday, Obama cracked a smile as he repeated a
February 01, 2011 Read Full Article
Fate of the Union: 3-Point Plan for biofuels
by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association/Biofuels Digest) ...While some would choose to ignore reality, the nation can produce more ethanol
January 25, 2011 Read Full Article
The Path Forward for Federal Biofuel Incentives
(25 x'25) The belief that the ethanol industry is entering a new era is nearly universal. As Renewable Fuels Association
January 22, 2011 Read Full Article
View from the Top: Federal Investments in Energy Infrastructure: What’s Worked before Can Work Again
by Mary Rosenthal (Algal Biomass Organization/Biofuels Digest) ...The federal government must follow its long history of investing in national
January 12, 2011 Read Full Article
10 to Watch: GOP Freshmen on Energy
by Robin Braverder (Politico) ...Cory Gardner (Colo.) — Like many of his colleagues, this newcomer with strong agricultural ties hopes to advance
December 28, 2010 Read Full Article
Political Winds
by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine) How will the new leadership impact ethanol policies? Some strong ethanol advocates lost in the
December 22, 2010 Read Full Article
Senate Tax Bill a Major Step Backwards for the Environment
by Jim Presswood (Switchboard) The tax bill agreed to last Thursday by Senators Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell contains an energy
December 15, 2010 Read Full Article
U.S. Poised to Pump in More of Canada's Dirtiest Oil
By Renee Schoof (Star-Telegram/McClatchy) At the climate talks under way in Cancun, Mexico, the U.S. has assured the world it's not
December 13, 2010 Read Full Article
Bi-Partisan Support for Biofuels Can Help to Achieve Energy, National Security Objectives
by Steve Maddox (The Hill) ...Although conventional, corn-based ethanol is not the darling of the environmental movement, it does have
December 13, 2010 Read Full Article
EPA: More Renewable Fuels Required
by Robin Bravender & Darren Samuelsohn (Politico) ...Energy Secretary Steven Chu on Monday said that the future of transportation fuels shouldn't
November 30, 2010 Read Full Article
Toward a Clean Energy Deployment Plan For Jobs, Security, and Broad-Based Economic Growth in 2011
by Bracken Hendricks, Lisbeth Kaufman, Ken Berlin, Monty Humble, Reed Hundt, Alex Kragie, Gerry Waldron (Center for American Progress) ... Congress must
November 22, 2010 Read Full Article
Harkin Threatens to Oppose Electric Vehicles Bill if Ethanol Provisions Aren’t Added
by Andrew Restuccia (The Washington Independent) Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), in a floor speech today, called for expanding electric and natural
November 22, 2010 Read Full Article
America Needs New Investment: In the Next Generation of Biofuels
by Christopher G. Standlee (Abengoa Energy/The Hill's Congress Blog) ...(T)here is bipartisan support for answering an urgent national challenge: replacing imported
November 22, 2010 Read Full Article
Obama May Kill Key DOE Loan Guarantee Program
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Washington, the Obama Administration developed and has been debating an option to kill the Section 1705
November 08, 2010 Read Full Article
Gen. Wesley K. Clark says Ethanol Key to Fixing Economy, National Security
(Growth Energy) For the November/December issue of Washington Monthly magazine, Growth Energy Co-Chair General Wesley K. Clark wrote an in-depth examination
October 28, 2010 Read Full Article
Leading Advanced Biofuel Groups Meet at The White House
(PR NewsWire) Leaders of the advanced biofuel industry personally delivered an important message to the Obama Administration this morning at a
October 27, 2010 Read Full Article
How to Get Biofuels Moving Again
by Michael Kanellos and Jim Imbler (Green Tech Media) To help this industry thrive, governments need to develop and implement a
October 26, 2010 Read Full Article
American Biofuels Now Coalition Calls for Real American Energy Policy
(BusinessWire) American Biofuels Now is a broad coalition of local (Tampa, Florida) biofuels producers, trade and environmental organizations, academics, and energy
October 11, 2010 Read Full Article
Crude Oil Imports and National Security
by Robert M. Ames, Anthony Corridore, Edward Hirs, Paul W. MacAvoy (Yale Graduates Energy Study Group) The authors demonstrate that
February 26, 2010 Read Full Article
How to Beat the High Cost of Gasoline. Forever!
by Adam Lashinsky and Nelson D. Schwartz (CNN Money/Fortune Magazine) You probably don't know it, but the answer to America's gasoline