Biofuels

$400 Million Renewable Biodiesel Plant to Be Built in Illinois

Thursday, 21 May 2020 REM The City of Newton, Illinois, Jasper County, and St. Joseph Renewable Fuels, LLC announced plans to build a $400 million renewable diesel plant in Southern Illinois that envisions utilizing innovative ...

IDEALFUEL Consortium for Development of Renewable Maritime Fuels Kicks Off

Wednesday, 20 May 2020 REM Many ships use heavy fuel oils that contain large amounts of sulphur and nitrogen leading to the emission of greenhouse gases and other damaging substances. IDEALFUEL, the consortium led by Eindhoven University ...

Neste Acquires US Company Mahoney Environmental

Monday, 04 May 2020 REM In March 2020, Finnish company, Neste, announced that it would acquire Mahoney Environmental, a leading collector and recycler of used cooking oil in the United States, and its affiliated entities. The ...

MINSHIP Embarks on Bulk Carrier Biofuel Trial

Wednesday, 22 April 2020 REM Bavarian ship management company MINSHIP and its subsidiary MINMARINE have announced that a bulk carrier in their fleet of managed vessels, M/V Trudy, has successfully bunkered biofuel at the Port of Rotterdam. ...

Bipartisan Group of Senators Seek COVID-19 Relief for Biofuel Industry

Wednesday, 08 April 2020 Dan McCue A bipartisan group of 15 U.S. Senators wrote Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue Tuesday, asking him to direct some of the department's coronavirus relief aid to struggling biofuel producers. In their letter, ...

LowCVP guide highlights sustainable fuel opportunities for decarbonization of commercial fleets

Monday, 23 March 2020 Robin Whitlock A new guide from the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) for fleet operators shows how renewable fuels can immediately cut greenhouse gas emissions in road transport, particularly from commercial vehicles ...

Italy

TO-SYN-FUEL project Advisory Board meets in Ravenna, Italy

Tuesday, 03 March 2020 Robin Whitlock The University of Bologna hosted the second Advisory Board meeting of the Horizon 2020 project TO-SYN-FUEL at the Fondazione Flaminia offices in Ravenna, Italy, on 18th of February 2020, with discussions ...

FORGE Receives Investment from Shell Ventures

Tuesday, 18 February 2020 REM FORGE Hydrocarbons, a Canadian biofuel start-up, has received an equity investment from Shell Ventures and a follow-on contribution from Valent Low-Carbon Technologies, which will help build a first-of-its-kind ...

Hapag-Lloyd to Lower CO2 Emissions With Biofuel

Hapag-Lloyd to Lower CO₂ Emissions With Biofuel

Monday, 10 February 2020 REM To reduce the CO2 emissions generated by operating ships, one of Hapag-Lloyd’s ships recently refueled at the port of Rotterdam with a new, eco-friendly biofuel. For the first time, the Montreal Express ...

10th Circuit Strikes Down Waivers, Handing Victory to Ag, Biofuel Groups

Monday, 27 January 2020 Dan McCue

A federal appeals court in Denver, Colorado, struck down small-refinery exemption extensions to three companies, holding the EPA did not have the authority to issue them.