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For 17 years, trucker Colin Birch has been hitting the highways to collect used cooking oil from restaurants.
He works for Vancouver-based renderer West Coast Reduction Ltd, which processes the grease into a material to make renewable diesel, a clean-burning road fuel. That job has recently gotten much harder. Birch is caught between soaring demand for the fuel driven by U.S. and Canadian government incentives and scarce cooking oil supplies, because fewer people are eating out during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Albuquerque, NM (March 5, 2021) – In response to New Mexico’s proposed Clean Fuel Standard legislation, 21 national and New Mexico-based companies and organizations formed the New Mexico Clean Fuel Coalition to support the state’s efforts to diversify New Mexico’s economy while decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. The Coalition was formed in conjunction with the Low Carbon Fuels Coalition, a national organization that plays a leading role in helping shape clean fuel policy at state and national levels.
If enacted, the Clean Fuel Standard Act, SB 11, would establish a market-based approach to cut greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels, requiring fuel producers and importers to reduce the amount of carbon in fuels used in New Mexico a 10% reduction by 2030 and a 28% reduction by 2040. Fuel producers and importers can meet the reduction goals by purchasing credits if they are not able to produce sufficiently low-carbon fuels. Credits may be ge
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March 5, 2021
The federal government has unveiled the draft regulations for its Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit System, which is designed to facilitate the generation and trade of credits for projects and practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“The development of the Federal Greenhouse Gas Offset System will mean farmers can be recognized and rewarded for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions on their farms by implementing practices that improve the carbon sequestered in their soil,” notes Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, in a statement.
While the regulations are published in the March 6 edition of Canada Gazette, they mainly cover the over-arching requirements under the system the actual details on how farms will earn and get paid for these offsets is still to be determined.