Blogging For Biofuels
Today, we share with you Rep. Jeanne Poppe's views on biofuels. Poppe is currently the committee chair of the agriculture policy committee in the Minnesota House of Representatives. She is running for re-election for district 27B.
Joe Perske is running for the U.S. Representative seat for Minnesota's Sixth Congressional District against Tom Emmer in the upcoming mid-term elections (the seat is currently occupied by Rep. Michelle Bachmann). Here are his responses to our questions on biofuels.
In the fourth part of our focus on what the candidates say about biofuels, we focus on Sharon Sund who is running against Rep. Erik Paulsen for Minnesota's third congressional district.
Rep. Collin Peterson, who is running for re-election for Minnesota's 7th Congressional District, is the focus of our latest post on what the candidates say about biofuels.
In the second part of our What The Candidates Say series, we bring you Mike McFadden's views on the biofuel industry. McFadden is running against Sen. Al Franken for one of Minnesota's two U.S. Senate seats.
With the mid-term elections looming on the horizon, we decided to ask several candidates running for office (or re-election) their thoughts and views on biofuels. The candidates were selected based on their current committee positions at the federal and state levels. In the run-up until Nov 4, we will feature their answers right here in Blogging For Biofuels. Kickstarting this series are answers from Sen. Al Franken.
The oil industry would have you believe that fracking is the way to cheaper gas prices. Not so, according to a new report by the Wall Street Journal.
A frac-sand mine, which provides the main ingredient in hydraulic fracturing, in Wisconsin has been shut down for dumping polluted wastewater, the Star Tribune reports.
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Procter and Gamble's (P&G) Tide Coldwater liquid laundry detergent will soon contain cellulosic ethanol. According to a report in the Cincinnati Enquirer, Tide Coldwater will blend cellulosic ethanol in "a scalable and commercial way."
In recent weeks, Big Oil has stepped up its attacks on ethanol. Today, those attacks landed right here in Minnesota. The American Petroleum Institute (Big Oil's big lobbying arm) sent in a letter filled with erroneous claims on ethanol to the Star Tribune. The letter was in response to an opinion piece written by Minnesota Corn Growers Association's President, Ryan Buck, which was published by the Strib on Sept 22.
Actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, recently gave a great speech on climate change at the UN General Assembly. And yes, he mentioned renewable energy.
The upcoming 2014 National Advanced Biofuels Conference and Expo (NABCE), which will be held in Minneapolis next month, will host a panel session with CEOs from three Minnesota ethanol plants.
Sales of E85 in Minnesota during the first seven months of the year grew 15 percent to 7.2 million gallons compared to 6.23 million gallons over the same period in 2013.
By now most of you have probably read or heard about the many tens of thousands of people who took to the streets in New York City over the weekend to voice their concern about climate change and to call for global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
On Sept 16, Chevron Corp CEO, John Watson, told the Economic Club of Minnesota that renewable energy will play a limited role in the country's energy future. His comments, which were reported by Bloomberg and Finance & Commerce, shouldn't be surprising considering how supportive Big Oil has been when it comes to renewable energies like biofuels.
Today, the National Council of Chain Restaurants (NCCR) - which includes representatives from Dominos Pizza, White Castle and CKE Restaurants (parent company of Carl's Jr) - will end a two-day visit to Capitol HIll where it has spent time lobbying congress on a variety of issues, including reforming the RFS.