Sentences with phrase «of the ethanol industry»

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

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.

Not exact matches

«I'm sure if you asked industry, they're going to say it's ambitious in terms of the amount of goods that are being moved in crude or in ethanol currently.»

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

So while social responsibility was reason enough for me to seek higher percentage blends of ethanol gas, what resonated even more with me is the fact that ethanol is an entrepreneur's industry.

ICLN holds a portfolio of «clean energy» companies, which it defines as those involved in the biofuels, ethanol, geothermal, hydroelectric, solar and wind industries.

«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.

WASHINGTON, DC — Today the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), as part of a coalition of food, farm and oil industry groups, filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court asking that it reverse the DC Circuit Court's August 2012 decision to dismiss its challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to allow gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol («E15») to be sold for cars manufactured in the 2007 model year or later.

The industry has hundreds of large factories in the region, with products of tapioca starch and derivatives including sweeteners, modified starches, and, more recently, fuel ethanol.

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.

The Brazilian car manufacturing industry developed flexible - fuel vehicles that can run on any proportion of gasoline (E20 - E25 blend) and hydrous ethanol (E100).

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 requires the use of 7.5 billion gallons of ethanol by 2012, and the industry is ahead of the target.

«Biofuels like ethanol are the only tool readily available that can begin to address the challenge of energy security,» Bob Dinneen, president of industry group the Renewable Fuels Association said in a statement.

Each day the facility would convert 1,000 tons of wood chips and waste from Georgia's vast pulp and paper industry into 274,000 gallons of ethanol.

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.

Obama has, however, also been a supporter of ethanol made primarily from corn — a prominent industry in his home state of Illinois — and recently told farmers he supports federal mandates to make nine billion gallons (34 billion liters) of ethanol to use as fuel this year.

Municipalities are already fighting over water supplies with the booming biofuels industry: citizens in the Illinois towns of Champaign and Urbana recently opposed a local ethanol plant's petition to withdraw two million gallons a day from the local aquifer to produce 100 million gallons of ethanol a year.

Jennings also noted, however, that Trump has gone on record in supporting ethanol because it fits with the president - elect's theme of achieving energy independence (although Trump also has listened to some powerful oil industry voices critical of some parts of the RFS).

But one industry group — ethanol producers — is noting Pruitt's past differences with Trump on another hot - button EPA issue: the law that mandates the use of the crop - based gasoline additive.

However, more than 10 billion gallons of ethanol will be transported and blended in 2009, and the earlier limitations in ethanol distribution and blending are no longer the major factor in the growth of the industry.

Additionally, ethylene and ethanol could serve as the building blocks for a range of consumer goods, and CO2 - derived formic acid could be used by the pharmaceutical industry or as a fuel in fuel cells.

«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.

It has promised the industry that petrol prices will go up next year, and that the blend of ethanol will rise from 20 % to 25 %, the maximum allowed by law.

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These facilities and those that follow will be driven by the same dynamic as grain ethanol, namely that industry profitability will be driven by ongoing reduction of processing costs such as enzymes and energy, as well as by increasing yields.

Ethanol fuel is produced from sugar cane in Brazil and from the cellulose of a wide variety of plants, including cornstalks, poplar trees, and switch grass, as well as waste left over from the forest products industry, wheat, oat, and barley straw.

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.

The fitness industry has long had a negative stance on alcohol consumption due to its lack of nutrition (empty calories) and ethanol content, the toxic metabolic by - product that can cause damage to your liver and inhibit essential nutrient absorption like amino acids and B vitamins, while also impeding upon muscle protein synthesis.

Many of the 28 vehicles GM will bring to the annual convention of the automotive aftermarket performance and appearance industry either run on alternative fuels, such as E85 ethanol, or feature fuel - efficient performance without compromise.

For example, the Univ of Maine has research and development on a type of genetically - modified bacteria that converts wood pulp to ethanol and the by - products are useful in the construction material industry.

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.

The automobile industry had dozens of alternatives that were either ignored or tentatively explored (Henry Ford had intended the Model T to run on ethanol; the electric car is more than a century old).

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

Witness for example how corn ethanol, the darling of big agribusiness, some farmers, the oil industry and many environmentalists — has fallen out of favor in public perception.

According to advocates from the Great Plains Institute, «Ethanol won't be a large source of CO2 over time compared to power plants, but it will be an important one because it can be an early participant in providing CO2 to the oil industry — there really are no technological barriers whatsoever.»

When reading about the potentials of cellulosic ethanol, I find very few optimists who are not financially tied to the industry and the government support that the industry relies on.

Over the past few years the EPA has been lobbied by a diverse assortment of industry groups to repeal the ethanol mandate, and policymakers have supported that with introduction of legislation.

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.

(05/01/2013) Intensification of Brazil's sugarcane industry in response to rising demand for sugar - based ethanol could have impacts on the regional climate reports a new study by researchers from Arizona State University, Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution for Science.

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.

The catalysts are derived from an environmentally benign cyanobacterium that exists naturally in the wild, and Joule has redirected the metabolism of multiple strains for the production of specific products, including ethanol and diesel - range alkanes — an industry first.

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.

In dueling TV ads, foes of the federal ethanol mandate claim that it «doubles greenhouse gas emissions,» while the ethanol lobby says that «the oil industry is lying» and the mandate will lead to lower emissions.

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 LCFS regulation also levies the calculation of Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) effects against biofuels, against the opposition (earlier post) of the biofuels industry, and to the particular detriment of corn ethanol.

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.