EPA Finalizes Disappointing RFS Rule for 2023, 2024, 2025
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this morning finalized extremely disappointing Renewable Fuel Standard volumes for 2023, 2024 and 2025. The biomass-based diesel and advanced biofuel volumes are set at roughly one-third what Clean Fuels and industry partners recommended to the agency. For 2023, in particular, the agency did not increase the volumes it proposed despite rapid […]
Letter: Biodiesel is Immediate Solution to Detroit Air Quality Woes
By Maggie Striz Calnin, Raquel Garcia and Hanna Campbell The recent Crain’s Detroit Business article, “Metro Detroit air quality improving in some ways, but room to get better” cited the American Lung Association’s 2023 State of the Air report. This report shows that Detroit continues to rank among the most polluted cities in America. We […]
Boeing Launches SAF Dashboard to Track, Project SAF Production
Boeing today launched SAF Dashboard, a tool that tracks expected sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) capacity over the next decade. Based on data collected by BloombergNEF, the Dashboard aggregates total SAF capacity announcements by suppliers on a global scale and can filter anticipated supply by production pathway, location and other metrics. The tool is accessible on Boeing’s […]
Rising Costs Spark Renewable Diesel Pullback
The U.S. renewable diesel rush is losing steam as soaring costs eat into profits, prompting the world’s top crop trader and North America’s largest energy company to pull back on planned investments. Agricultural behemoth Cargill, Inc. said it has suspended plans to build a giant soybean-processing plant that would have provided feedstock to the renewable […]
The Challenges and Opportunities for Algae-based Biofuels
Algae-based biofuels are, quite literally, a green energy source. The early 2000s saw a lot of hype around the promise of algae as an alternative to fossil fuels, but 20 years later, the bubble seems to have burst. Does this naturally occurring resource have a place in the renewable energy discussion? Bloom and Bust: The Pros and […]
Understanding the Similarities and Differences Between Biodiesel and Renewable Diesel
Alternative fuels and technologies can include transportation fuels such as renewable natural gas, propane autogas, biodiesel, ethanol, electricity, and more. There are currently two sustainable diesel fuel replacements meant to displace the use of traditional petroleum diesel in the marine and on-road and off-road markets in the United States – renewable diesel and biodiesel. While […]