Latest Renewable fuels Stories

E2 Report: Biofuel industry well positioned to meet demand under California standard WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Despite a challenging year, the advanced biofuels industry continues to grow, according to a new report from Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2). Biofuel production capacity has increased from 437 million gallons last year to more than 685 million gallons, the report shows. By 2015, the industry has the potential to produce 1.6 billion to 2.6 billion...

VANCOUVER, Sept. 6, 2012 /CNW/ - Lignol Energy Corporation (TSXV: LEC) ("Lignol" or "the Company"), a leading technology company in the advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals sector, today announced that it has successfully completed a major body of work in producing cellulosic ethanol at Lignol's pilot-scale biorefinery, in partnership with Novozymes Inc., a world leader in bio-innovation. The work involved optimization of process conditions for the use of Novozymes' latest...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "The Renewable Fuels Standard, (RFS) is critical to maintaining biofuels as a pillar of U.S. energy policy now, and moving into the future. Radical changes to, or the elimination of the RFS all together, will endanger our country's energy security. "The opponents of the RFS are exploiting the drought in the Midwest to roll back a policy they never supported in the first place. This disingenuous attack should be seen for what it...

VANCOUVER, Aug. 27, 2012 /CNW/ - Lignol Energy Corporation (TSXV: LEC) ("Lignol", "LEC" or "the Company"), a leading technology company in the advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals sector, today announced that it has completed a non-brokered private placement of 30,750,000 common shares of the Company at a price of CAD$0.08 per common share to raise gross proceeds of CAD$2.46 million (the "Private Placement"), and has acquired from Wasabi Energy Limited (ASX/AIM: WAS) ("Wasabi"...

American Petroleum Institute continues to peddle same misinformation on Renewable Fuel Standard and ethanol WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to Big Oil's latest attack on the Renewable Fuel Standard, Growth Energy CEO Tom Buis issued the following statement: "When the Renewable Fuel Standard was passed by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2007, it set goals to reduce our nation's dependence on foreign oil, and encourage the...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following recent calls for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to waive the current volume goals of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), Growth Energy and the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) will be holding a joint press conference to discuss the current drought, ethanol production and the unnecessary calls to waive the RFS. Additionally, RFA and Growth Energy will discuss the built in flexibility of the RFS and how the...

RIO DE JANEIRO, June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- UOP LLC, a Honeywell (NYSE: HON) company, announced today that Honeywell Green Jet Fuel(TM) produced from its UOP Renewable Jet Fuel process powered flights to the Rio+20 United Nations Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Rio+20 Conference brings together world leaders, governments and other participants to discuss worldwide sustainable development. In a project led by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the...

GEISMER, La., March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With barrels of biofuel flowing from the success of America's first commercial advanced biofuels plant, the Advanced Biofuels Association, ABFA, takes its online video series, Better Fuels Moment, on the road to get a closer look at its member company Dynamic Fuels and its facility in Louisiana where trucks are lining up to deliver its renewable diesel. The new episode, online today at http://youtu.be/rseM5F-Fnc8,...

NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dynamic Fuels, LLC and Mansfield Oil Company have signed an agreement to supply renewable diesel to Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE / NSC), one of the nation's largest transporters of coal and industrial products. Norfolk Southern has primarily been using a 100% pure Dynamic Fuels renewable diesel at its Meridian, Mississippi rail yard since early January. Dynamic Fuels, a 50/50 venture owned by Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE / TSN) and...

Wide-scale adoption of technology could help meet increasing global demand for renewable fuels and chemicals A team of scientists from Bio Architecture Lab (BAL), has developed breakthrough technology that expands the feedstocks for advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals production to include seaweed (macroalgae). The team engineered a microbe to extract the all the major sugars in seaweed and convert them into renewable fuels and chemicals, thus making seaweed a cost-effective,...