(Renewable Fuels Association) Big Oil brought Ron Miller to ethanol. The son of a man who worked at Texaco for nearly 40 years, Miller found himself working there, too, out of Chicago, just as the oil embargoes of the 1970s were sending the American fuel industry into a major transition.
Miller ended up helping blend ethanol into Texaco fuel as the refiner worked with Corn Products to produce ethanol at a surplus plant in Pekin, Ill., outside of Peoria, starting in 1981. One can still watch celebrity pitchman Bob Hope tout “Texaco Gasohol” on YouTube.
Miller took over marketing at the new Pekin Energy plant, which is now one of the oldest in the ethanol industry and which has gone through several changes of ownership and names over the 40 years that followed from Pekin Energy Company to Williams Bio Energy to Aventine to Pacific Ethanol to Alto Ingredients.
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This is a brief review of some of the significant environmental (and administrative law decisions) released the past few weeks.
THE U.S. SUPREME COURT
Carr, et al. v. Saul and
AMG Capital Management v. Federal Trade Commission.
Carr, et al. v. Saul
In this case, the constitutionality of Social Security Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) hearing disability claims disputes was at issue. More precisely, were these ALJs selected in conformance with the Appointments Clause of the Constitution? A similar issue was litigated in the case of
Lucia v. Securities and Exchange Commission. There, the Court held that many of the agency’s ALJs were not selected in conformance with the Appointment’s Clause. Here, the Court held that this issue could be decided by the courts without compelling the litigants to first exhaust their administrative remedies. Thousands of ALJs are employed by the federal government, and it may take so
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by Cindy Zimmerman (Energy.AgWired.com) 2021 marks the 10th anniversary of the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard being implemented with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the state’s transportation sector, while also lessening dependence on petroleum by using alternative fuels, like ethanol.
A new Renewable Fuels Association white paper looks at how, for the past decade, ethanol has been the go-to fuel to decarbonize transportation in the Golden State. The use of ethanol under California’s low-carbon fuel standard has generated over a third of the state’s greenhouse gas savings since implementation of the program began in 2011 more than any other low-carbon fuel used in the state.
Hoptown Chronicle
Corn growers demand Biden climate plan prioritize ethanol The issue is a good example of the political tightrope Biden must walk in appealing to Corn Belt biofuels producers while pursuing environmental goals. by The Rural Blog
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President Biden’s infrastructure plan has “massive investments in electric cars” but the biofuels industry thinks it is getting shortchanged, Ryan McCrimmon and Kelsey Tamborrino report for
Politico.
“Corn growers and producers of ethanol the corn-based renewable fuel that has long enjoyed special status as a government-mandated ingredient in gasoline would get only a tiny slice of the funds proposed in the infrastructure package, despite Biden’s assurances that he views them as key to reducing dependence on fossil fuels. So now they’re turning to their traditional allies in Congress to get themselves written in.”