Sentences with phrase «us ethanol industry»

In Iowa, for instance, the boom in natural gas has meant trouble for the local ethanol industry.

The shift adds to rising tension in the ethanol industry.

And not incidentally, military veterans make up nearly 20 % of the ethanol industry's workforce.

Ingenuity, innovation, hard work... the ethanol industry is the embodiment of American small business.»

«For the first time, the U.S. ethanol industry will have the opportunity to compete for a portion of Japan's fuel blending market,» Emily Skor, head of Washington - based ethanol group Growth Energy, said in a statement.

That's a big reason Brazil developed its sugar - cane ethanol industry.

Meanwhile, new reports in the United States showed that two million acres of native grasslands have been converted to corn and soy monocultures in the past five years alone, driven in part by government subsidies and targets for the ethanol industry.

In 2003 he co-chaired the Queensland Government's Ethanol Industry Development Committee.

From the start, the ethanol industry has been dogged by concerns about its net energy balance — whether ethanol requires more fossil fuel to make than it replaces.

«When I first looked into the ethanol industry, there was this promise that the cellulose technology was just a few years away,» Lunz recalled.

Despite environmental concerns, the president will expedite funding for the ethanol industry

For cellulosic to make its way onto the market, federal policy will need to do more to encourage distribution of higher blends of ethanol, the ethanol industry says.

The corn and ethanol industries already get federal help, before carbon capture money from the Department of Energy comes into play, he said.

In a major decision that the ethanol industry called «workable,» the Obama Administration ruled that carbon emissions from deforestation abroad should count in determining the carbon footprint of biofuels.

The conversion and commercialization of cellulose inputs into fuel ethanol is a significant technology obstacle to the growth of the ethanol industry as a mainstream fuel.

Then we looked at the U.S. corn ethanol industry, and how they separated the corn oil.

The cellulosic ethanol industry is beginning to emerge, with several commercial scale plants becoming operational in the United States, Europe, and Brazil.

Our TransFerm and TransFerm Yield + bioengineered yeast products are widely used in the corn ethanol industry and our next generation products are ready to deploy for industrial cellulosic ethanol production.

Noticeable advocacy contributions include the successful joint BIO / ETA petition to EPA for Tier 1 designation of Trichoderma reesei, ETA's redirect of FDA / CVM to follow due process for establishing regulatory guidance impacting the renewable fuel ethanol industry, numerous presentations on safety & regulatory paradigms for microbial biotechnology to authorities in the US, Canada, Brazil, and China, as well as the NAS Biotechnology Committee on Future Products of Biotechnology and New Harvest.

This program can't simply be a taxpayer - subsidized corporate welfare scheme for the ethanol industry.

America's ethanol industry worked hard to help bring President - elect Trump to the White House and continues to support his dedication to ensuring home - grown domestic energy security.»

In what would certainly be a huge blow to the US» formidable corn - ethanol industry, the California Air Resources Board is readying a report that says ethanol is worse than oil in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

Brazil owes its present - day sugar cane ethanol industry to the decisions of a military government during the energy crunch of 1973.

Among other things, Mr. King claimed that a 2008 reduction of $ 0.06 per gallon in the now - expired ethanol blenders credit brought the expansion of the corn ethanol industry to a standstill.

The circle goes like this: Tax dollars and mandates create and support an ethanol industry.

Mr. Andreas's company, Archer Daniels Midland Company, dominates an American ethanol industry that by most accounts would not exist without the estimated $ 6 billion in Federal subsidies it has received since Mr. Dole sponsored legislation establishing the tax break nearly 20 years ago.

has a discussion and documentation, including energy balances, (actually EROI = 10.5 in this presentation) of some of the points I was trying to make with Ender about the highly evolved efficiency of the Brazilian ethanol industry.

Mr. Dole has helped erect trade barriers to foreign ethanol and has engineered an anonymous amendment that effectively shuttered the Caibbean ethanol industry for three years.

Plus I'm sure Dan McGrath will soon distill all his talents and intelligence into a laser - like focus to fight the Ethanol industry to it's much deserved demise.

This system, now well established in the Brazilian ethanol industry, is spreading to sugar mills in other countries that produce the remaining 80 percent of the world sugar harvest.

While higher commodity prices and cooperatively owned ethanol refineries could be a boon to independent farmers, unregulated ethanol industry growth will further concentrate agribusiness, threatening the livelihood of rural communities.

The ethanol industry has been criticized for the amount of energy used to grow crops and produce ethanol.

Badal Saha, lead scientist at the fermentation biotechnology research unit of the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS), began his talk with a status report on the fuel ethanol industry.

This is part of the advanced management technology that is integrating the ethanol industry with the livestock industry.

We are concerned with America's growing ethanol industry, the implications it has in setting a precedent for additional biomass based energy, and the massive agricultural industrialization of the world's remaining rainforests and other natural wildlands this would require.

The ethanol industry, already reeling from a draft plan for cuts in the ethanol mandate for this year, will now face more pressure as everyone from conservatives and environmental activists...

The US ethanol industry underwent restructuring and several substantial wind developers sold their portfolios.

The U.S. ethanol industry is facing the most intense pressure to reform since the 2005 Renewable Fuel Standard was implemented.

The spectacle last week of a few Midwestern Senators making threats and holding up nominations to protect a government handout that only benefits their wealthy backers in the ethanol industry was a new low even for Congress.

You can run them, in dual fuel mode, on ethanol, but how much interest has the ethanol industry shown in doing that?

In June 2011, the ethanol industry voluntarily ended the main corn ethanol tax credit, known as the VEETC, as well as the ethanol import tariff.

The ethanol industry would also benefit, with $ 2.5 billion in new research money to create more efficient biofuels as well as loan guarantees for building new ethanol pipelines and tax breaks for biofuel, electric and hydrogen refueling stations.

Aurora is one of dozens of start - ups vying to bring an algae - based product to market that will be competitive with petroleum but does not take farmland out of food production, an issue that has plagued the corn ethanol industry.

Although the U.S. ethanol industry rejected these findings, the results were confirmed in a 2009 report from the International Council for Science, a worldwide federation of scientific associations.

Absent subsidies, the domestic ethanol industry would be much smaller, and would likely be blended in small amounts with gasoline.

Renewable Fuels Association (RFA), Homegrown for the Homeland: Ethanol Industry Outlook 2005 (Washington, DC: 2005); corn per acre and ethanol per bushel approximated from Allen Baker et al., «Ethanol Reshapes the Corn Market,» Amber Waves, vol.

But the models fail to account for dynamic reactions to a corn crop reduction (in this case a simple and very cost efficient response would be to end corn ethanol subsidies, thus redirecting corn to food rather than fuel, ending an inefficient industry and encouraging ethanol industries in tropical nations using sugar cane, which makes a lot more sense than corn ethanol).

And just as we saw backlashes against drilling over Deepwater and now nuclear with Japan, imagine the backlash if the Midwest goes through a major drought while we still try to supply the ethanol industry with their corn.

Naturally, the ethanol industry countered with their own letter.

When really pressed on why the USDA and the Obama administration continue to support corn based ethanol, they point to using it as helping support the fledgling cellulosic ethanol industry, which seems to always be just 5 years away from commercial viability.