Sentences with phrase «as biofuel mandates»

As biofuel mandates increase, the ethanol volume required for blending into gasoline will exceed 10 percent — known as the «E10 Blend Wall.»

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The conclusions deal a blow to what are known as cellulosic biofuels, which have received more than a billion dollars in federal support but have struggled to meet volume targets mandated by law.

The biofuels mandate would require all petroleum - based heating oil sold in the state to contain 2 percent or more of soybean oil and / or spent vegetable oils, such as those used in frying foods, a supposed effort to reduce greenhouse gases.

Senate Republicans were described by nervous business groups as moving to put the mandate into Cuomo's budget because of Catsimatidis» influence and heavy lobbying from Senate - connected biofuel interests, including the National Biodiesel Board, a producers» umbrella group that includes United Metro and Midwestern soybean farmers.

The Obama administration seems to agree, granting $ 786 million in 2009 for biofuels research and setting up the Biofuels Interagency Working Group to study how best to meet the renewable fuel standard mandated by Congress that will require increasing the amount of renewable fuels, such as ethanol, to 36 billion gallons by 2022.

The ruling could have broad implications for the biofuel mandate, as various groups weigh challenges to EPA's management of the program.

«It takes 77 million years to make fossil fuels and 45 minutes to use as a coffee cup,» says Cereplast's Scheer, noting that his industry can use the residue of government - mandated production of biofuels, such as ethanol from corn.

If we're going to address climate change, it's going to start with solutions experts agree on (efficiency, low - GHG sources such as nuclear, carbon capture and storage, wind, geothermal, cellulosic biofuels, and eventually solar), and processes that experts agree on (increasing the cost of GHG emissions, funding more R&D, mandates sometimes).

Risk Factors, proposed carbon policy and other climate - related regulations in many countries, as well as the continued growth in biofuels mandates, could have negative impacts on the refining business.

As noted earlier, eliminating biofuel mandates and subsidies while uprooting the false assumption of carbon - neutrality from EPA's Clean Power Plan would do more to reduce the unfair advantages of bioenergy than even the most inclusively - designed carbon tax.

Mandates and subsidies for fossil - fuel intensive biofuels such as corn - derived ethanol are so large that eliminating or reducing them would almost certainly do more than a carbon tax to curb these fuels» artificial price advantage.

«The U.S. and Europe can not produce enough plant feedstocks to meet targets» for biofuel production — even with cellulosic corn — as defined by government mandates, which are largely being driven by a growing demand for energy independence and national security concerns, said Thurmond.

The fact is, Congressional mandates have failed to produce cellulosic biofuel and expand the domestic biofuels industry as envisioned, and our new energy realities have made the RFS obsolete.

Congressional mandates have failed to produce cellulosic biofuel and expand the domestic biofuels industry as envisioned, and our new energy realities have made the RFS obsolete

The European Union took note of that and decided not to include references to biofuels in their new energy and climate union package recently adopted with goals and targets for 2030 (as opposed to the 2020 package that did include biofuels mandates).

The problems associate with this practice will become acute as all major Western governments have mandate a percentage of biofuel.

Recent laws in the United States and Europe that mandate the increasing use of biofuel in cars have had far - flung ripple effects, economists say, as land once devoted to growing food for humans is now sometimes more profitably used for churning out vehicle fuel.

The result is that the two most positive provisions of the energy bill — a clean energy mandate and a tax package reining in handouts for fossil fuels and promoting clean energy — are being removed while detrimental provisions, such as a radical five-fold increase in unsustainable biofuel use, remain.

As the president of the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association said, «Instead of imposing an unreasonable biofuels mandate, which would raise energy costs and impact fuel supplies, government should allow consumer choice and the free market to determine the mix of energy sources to best meet our nation's needs.»