Articles By John McGarrity
US agribusiness company Green Plains on Tuesday said it has set up a joint venture – named Blue Blade – with energy infrastructure company Tallgrass and United Airlines to develop full-scale alcohol-to-jet production from ethanol by 2028...
Germany’s Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke on Tuesday said that she will soon introduce proposals to curb the use of crop-based biofuels in the country, which is the EU’s biggest member state in terms of fuel consumption and a major producer of ethanol and biodiesel from edible crops...
The European Parliament on Wednesday backed proposals that crop-based biofuels such as corn-based ethanol and rapeseed-based biodiesel should still play a meaningful role in meeting transport decarbonisation target...
Argentina’s government will extend its 12.5% biodiesel blend rate as part of its efforts to alleviate the impact of high costs of...
Canada’s imports of ethanol are forecast to rise 18% this year as higher regional mandates and a recovery in fuel demand from...
Water levels at a critical chokepoint on the Rhine River are forecast to soon rise to levels that would facilitate the full...
US ethanol, food and feed products company Green Plains has turned in a higher overall profit for the second quarter...
Democrats in the US Senate have agreed to back the Inflation Reduction Act, which contains several major provisions to...
Combined consumption of various biodiesels as a whole is set to stagnate in the EU in 2022, with barely any change from last...
Consumption of fuel ethanol in the EU could rise 2.3% this year, which would be a new record for the 27-nation bloc, an annual...
An influential committee of MEPs voted in favour of meaningful roles for biofuels based on standard wastes and crops on...
The European Council has backed many of the European Commission’s proposals on crop-based biofuels in a revised version of the Renewable Energy Directive...
A proposal from Germany to temporarily reduce the volume of biofuels consumption in G7 countries has failed to gain traction at a summit of the grouping being held in Bavaria, according to media reports on Sunday...
India’s consumption of fuel ethanol will rise 26% in 2022 compared with last year, the US Department of Agriculture...
Latvia on Tuesday scrapped the mandatory blending of biofuel from 1 July this year until the end of 2023, the country's environment ministry said...
The Biden administration is considering raising ethanol blending mandates for 2021, above the threshold it proposed in...
Germany-based ethanol and animal feed producer CropEnergies on Wednesday said it made a record profit in the 2021/22 financial year with the biggest uptick in earnings made in the autumn/winter period as demand...
An explosion at an ethanol plant in Illinois has hospitalised two people and caused up to $2 million in damage to silos at the former ADM facility...
The increasingly vexed question of whether crop-based biofuels production is contributing to a global food crisis is likely to be...
Countries, companies and individuals need to do much more to slash greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, farming and...