Published: Monday, April 26, 2021
Biofuel tanks in Iowa. Photo credit: National Renewable Energy Lab/Flickr
Biofuel tanks in Iowa. National Renewable Energy Lab/Flickr
A divisive battle over who must comply with renewable fuels requirements reaches the nation s highest bench tomorrow.
During remote oral arguments, the Supreme Court will weigh three petroleum refineries pleas for relief from biofuel blending requirements that they say are too financially onerous to their businesses.
The fact that the Supreme Court, which only hears a tiny fraction of cases that come its way, even agreed to consider the case has come as a surprise even to the petroleum industry and to legal scholars.
Ag News: Fish Eating Fish and Potato Sales Catch Up Amid discussions about how much river flow needs to be dedicated to fish, an ongoing study indicates predators eat half or more of protected salmon, regardless of flow levels.
A fishery consulting firm working on the lower Stanislaus River says bass and other fish eat many juvenile salmon, and that the losses don’t appear connected to flows in the river.
A state plan would require more water in rivers, therefore unavailable for human use.
Potato sales for the 3rd Quarter of the Marketing Year have caught up to the changed buying habits the pandemic brought about.
Down 32 percent from March. Other big markets like Canada saw an 85 percent boost, India a 13 percent hike in U.S. ethanol imports, while overall March shipments were up 31 percent. Export sales of the ethanol co-product dried distillers’ grains, or DDGS, rebounded 13 percent, with big increases to Mexico, Vietnam, South Korea, and Turkey.
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(Renewable Fuels Association) The Renewable Fuels Association today submitted feedback related to a planned expansion of the Oregon Clean Fuels Program. The Oregon CFP currently requires a 10% reduction in the carbon intensity (CI) of transportation fuels by 2025, and the state intends to expand the reductions to 20% by 2030 and 25% by 2035.
In anticipation of the expansion, Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality recently released a set of illustrative scenarios showing different ways that compliance in 2030 and 2035 could be achieved. While RFA believes the program has been effective and supports its expansion, the association identified some areas of concern related to specific aspects of the scenarios.