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Dismissing Oil Industry Arguments That New Standard Could Lead to Fuel Shortages

Mar 5, 2014

Beginning in 2017, all gasoline sold in the US must contain less than 10 parts per million sulfur, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday, dismissing oil industry arguments that the new standard is unnecessary and could ...

Tags: Gasoline, Metallurgy

Researchers at The Energy Department's NREL Have Discovered That an Enzyme

Jan 8, 2014

Researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered that an enzyme from a microorganism first found in the Valley of Geysers on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia in 1990 can digest cellulose ...

Tags: Digestion Mechanism, Fast-Eating Enzyme, Health News

US Supreme Court Declined Monday to Hear an Appeal From Refiners and Other Groups

Jun 26, 2013

The US Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an appeal from refiners and other groups to overturn a lower-court decision denying its challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's partial approval of the ethanol/gasoline blend E15. ...

Tags: Chemicals, ethanol, gasoline

The Mobile Bay Jubilee

May 22, 2013

To get an idea of how American coastal waters might look just before they succumb to all the degradations they have suffered these past five centuries, it would be worth taking a July trip to Mobile Bay, an Alabama inlet that feeds into the ...

Tags: Agriculture, Food

RINs May Be Key to The Industry's Economics

May 8, 2013

Aviation biofuel's newly minted ability to generate tradable US renewables credits, known as RINs, may be key to the industry's economics, according to market watchers. "The availability of RINs is a critical bridge to commercial ...

Tags: Biojet Backers, Chemicals

Stainless Steel Is The Material of Choice for Many Applications in The Bioethanol

Dec 20, 2012

Stainless steel is the material of choice for many applications in the bioethanol, biodiesel and biogas sectors as it presents a cost-efficient and reliable material solution. The Nickel Institute has recently published the report ...

Tags: Stainless Steel, biofuels sector, Construction, biofuels industry

The US Senate on Thursday Voted 54-41 to Reverse a Plan Included in a Defense Policy Bill

Dec 4, 2012

The US Senate on Thursday voted 54-41 to reverse a plan included in a larger defense policy bill that would have ended the Department of Defense's participation in an agreement aimed at boosting the supply of biofuels available to the ...

Tags: defense policy bill, biofuels to the military, the supply of biofuels

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