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Archive for the 'Renewable Fuel' Category
Washington DC -May 12- The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) today gave its approval to an Obama administration proposal to divide the Minerals Management Service, which oversees offshore drilling, into two agencies, saying the breakup was “long overdue.”
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Washington DC - April 8 - Ethanol production is an unparalleled economic engine in hundreds of small communities all across America. But tens of thousands of the jobs ethanol helps support are in peril if Congress fails to extend key tax incentives.
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Washington DC - April 6 - USDA Farm Service Agency Administrator Jonathan Coppess said that biomass producers, energy facilities and communities are benefitting from USDA’s innovative Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP).
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Washington DC - April 6 - Funding the existing cellulosic biofuel reverse auction program is a targeted, affordable way to assist pioneer cellulosic biofuel producers in the United States.
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Washington DC - March 26 - Joined by advocates of America’s renewable fuels industry, Congressman Earl Pomeroy and Congressman John Shimkus unveiled legislation that would extend tax incentives that are critical to the nation’s ethanol industry and the preservation of hundreds of thousands of jobs.
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Washington DC - March 23 - The Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA) today released its 2010 production forecast for ethanol and predicts global production will reach 85.9 billion litres (22.7 billion gallons) in 2010 growing by 16.2 per cent from 2009 production.
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Washington DC March 22 - The scramble to find sufficient land for biofuel production has experts eyeing marginal croplands that have been placed in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).
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Washington DC - March 17 - Graphene—carbon formed into sheets a single atom thick—now appears to be a promising base material for capturing hydrogen and could potentially store hydrogen safely for use in fuel cells and other applications, according to recent research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Pennsylvania.
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Washington DC - February 18 - The American Soybean Association (ASA) is calling for the Senate to reinsert a retroactive extension of the biodiesel tax incentive in the first Jobs Bill it passes to save the jobs of 23,000 people working in the biodiesel industry.
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Washington DC - February 17 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced $144 million in loan guarantees to assist 54 rural businesses through funding made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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Washington DC - February 11 - U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists and their colleagues at the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute announced that they have completed sequencing the genome of a kind of wild grass, shedding light on the genetics behind hardier varieties of wheat and improved varieties of biofuel crops.
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Washington DC - February 5 - The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) proposed policy options that provide needed incentives to support U.S. job growth in commercial scale biorefinery projects for production of advanced biofuels, biobased products and renewable specialty chemicals.
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Washington DC - February 4 - American Farm Bureau Federation(AFBF) President Bob Stallman released a statement expressing optimism in regards to the EPA’s renewable fuel standards rule.
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Washington DC - February 4 - President Barack Obama announced a series of steps his Administration is taking, boosting biofuels production and reducing dangerous dependence on foreign oil, as part of its comprehensive strategy building a foundation for a new clean energy economy.
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Washington DC - February 4 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a proposed rule for the new Biomass Crop Assistance Program that intends to spur the expansion of dedicated non-food crops for renewable energy and biofuel production.
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