Sentences with phrase «renewable fuel standards»

Many of the most vociferous supporters of a carbon tax (or cap - and - trade scheme) have no intention of getting rid of gasoline taxes, power plant mandates, renewable fuel standards, or fuel economy standards.

Furthermore, the mandatory alternative fuel standard, although increasing the total amount of alternative fuels, would be a change from previous mandatory renewable fuel standards, allowing «alternative fossil fuels» to join the party.

In fact, 29 states have renewable fuel standards and numerous corporations have made pledges to use renewable energy.

Alternative and renewable fuels could face the same constraints at the ports should the state begin to rely on imports of those fuels to meet state and federal renewable fuel standards.

Continuing the $ 1 - per - gallon subsidy for cellulosic ethanol and the renewable fuel standards will also help.

President Donald Trump this morning meets with Republican members of the Senate on renewable fuel standards, and then will receive the Boy Scouts of America Report to the Nation.

«A lot of people are concerned if you get a GOP House and Senate, there will be changes to renewable fuel standards,» Clayton explained.

May 2 - The Trump administration has invited a group of U.S. senators to the White House early next week to discuss biofuels policy, the latest in a series of such meetings aimed at helping refiners cope with the Renewable Fuel Standard, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

That means setting standards that encourage the new technologies, such as a promised renewable fuels standard, aimed at encouraging ways to ensure fuel consumers like cars and furnaces produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

One of the primary contributors to the company's poor results, according to CEO Jack Lipinski, is the «exorbitant costs of Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) under the broken Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program.»

Perdue made the comments a day after Trump hosted a meeting with Cabinet officials and senators to discuss potential changes to the Renewable Fuel Standard to help refiners who say they are struggling under the program.

As company owner Carl Icahn noted in a 2016 oped with the Wall Street Journal, his company «is losing hundreds of millions of dollars because of the Renewable Fuel Standard.»

Starling shares industry concerns over possible Chinese trade retaliation and understands the levity of a pending White House decision on the Renewable Fuel Standard.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, suggested the Senate could hold up Trump administration nominees to the EPA if it doesn't abandon a potential rollback of Renewable Fuel Standard requirements.

U.S. EPA has suggested drastically lowering the cellulosic target in the renewable fuels standard, which sets biofuel goals for 2022.

Trump's choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency tells Senate he would honor the intent of the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard

The recently announced CAFÉ standards coupled with the Renewable Fuel Standard represent the kind of trajectory for beginning such a transition for our highway transportation sector.

Pruitt said he would support the U.S. renewable fuels standard, which requires biofuels like ethanol to be blended in gasoline, but said the program needed some tweaks.

Next Steps Algae biofuels should benefit from recent changes to the Renewable Fuel Standard, a set of regulations that require gasoline in the United States be blended with a certain amount of renewable fuel.

As part of the Renewable Fuels Standard, EPA will attempt to determine the global warming pollution associated with fuel from plants

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.

Ultimately, the political problem that regulators face here in the U.S. as they struggle with the California low - carbon fuel standard and the revised EPA Renewable Fuel Standard is that they are trying to regulate biofuels producers with respect to indirect changes over which they (both the regulators and the biofuels producers) have little control.

Mandates like the U.S. renewable fuel standard, which calls for production of 36 billion gallons per year by 2022, are useful in promoting low - carbon fuels, like waste vegetable oil for biodiesel, said Malins.

In 2005 and 2007, energy legislation was passed that increased the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and also created a number of Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Agriculture funding vehicles (grants and loan guarantees) to help the biofuels industry meet mandated production goals.

As a designated advanced biofuel under the federal renewable fuel standard, it must achieve at least 50 percent reduction compared with fossil fuels.

While the USDA Plant Epidemiology and Risk Analysis Laboratory lists the giant reed as highly invasive, it was approved for cultivation under the renewable fuel standard (RFS), administered by U.S. EPA.

Under the federal renewable fuel standard, the United States must ramp up biofuels production to 36 billion gallons by 2022.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a proposed rulemaking for modifications to the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) program.

An Economic Evaluation of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Biofuel Program: An Industrial Policy Approach, Jay Kesan and Atsushi Ohyama, Social Science Research Network, LE09 - 035, Aug. 19, 2010.

A Legal Analysis of the Effects of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) and Clean Air Act on the Commercialization of Biobutanol as a Transportation Fuel in the United States, Timothy A. Slating & Jay P. Kesan, Global Change Biology - Bioenergy, 4 (1), doi: 10.1111/j.1757-1707.2011.01146.x, January 9, 2012.

The Renewable Fuel Standard 3.0?

Mandatory Demand as a Policy Instrument: The Case of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Biofuel Program, Jay Kesan, Timothy Slating, Hsiao - Shan Yang, Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No.

The second is that someone will ask the candidate whether he or she supports the Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS: the federal program that, among other things, requires all gasoline sold in this country to contain a minimum amount of «renewable biofuel» — which in Iowa, of course, means corn - based ethanol.

One key topic of current concern is the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)-- a law that requires annual increases in the amount of ethanol to be added to gasoline.

The Renewable Fuel Standard, passed in 2005, may sound like a high - minded environmental program.

As soon as this week, the Senate could vote on a measure to roll back the Renewable Fuel Standard, just days after the Iowa caucuses close and the issue largely goes to rest for another four years.

(04/26/2012) Wilmar International, the world's largest palm oil processor and trader, has hired a major lobbying firm to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's ruling that palm oil - based biodiesel will not meet greenhouse gas emissions standards under America's Renewable Fuels Standard, reports The Hill.

(05/18/2012) The palm oil industry has hired lobbying powerhouse Holland & Knight to help overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's finding that palm oil - based biodiesel fails to meet greenhouse gas emissions targets under the country's Renewable Fuels Standard, reports The Hill.

This week, the EPA announced that it was adjusting the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) in order to reflect market realities.

A broad, diverse, and growing chorus of voices continues to tell Washington that Enough Is Enough as politicians like Sen. Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) squabble for more special - interest handouts veiled as so - called «fixes» to the fundamentally failed Renewable Fuel Standard.

Those other laws include the US renewable fuel standard, which requires that the volume of renewable fuel blended into gasoline is increased from 34 billion litres in 2008 to 136 billion litres by 2022.

Market - based principles should guide policymakers away from top - down, government - mandated ventures such as the flawed Renewable Fuel Standard — which could force higher ethanol blend fuels into the national supply, potentially damaging vehicle engines and saddling consumers with repair costs.

Today: The impacts of the Renewable Fuel Standard and federal ethanol policy.

Previous work with Climate Solutions includes the NW Climate Connections partnership, serving as the Field Assistant for the successful Clean Cars campaign, and Field Director of the Renewable Fuel Standard, which passed in April 2006.

WASHINGTON — Today, the American Energy Alliance launched a six - figure advocacy initiative urging Congress to reject efforts that fall short of fully repealing the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Yesterday, American Energy Alliance President Thomas Pyle penned an op - ed on The Hill's Congress Blog explaining how the Renewable Fuel Standard hurts Iowa farmers — despite conventional wisdom to the contrary.

In Iowa, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) has been of particular import due to the heavy influence of the ethanol lobby.

WASHINGTON — American Energy Alliance President Thomas Pyle issued the following statement on the proposed 2017 volume requirements for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS):

However, we only have about 10 years until the Renewable Fuel Standard ceases increasing, and we have yet to produce any cellulosic ethanol at all.

A decade ago Congress passed legislation creating the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)-- requiring escalating volumes of ethanol in the U.S. fuel supply — that was intended in part to help reduce crude oil imports while capitalizing the supposed environmental advantages of ethanol.