Blogging For Biofuels
Last week, we told you about the anti-RFS hearing in Congress which featured testimony from, among others, known anti-ethanol advocated Jason Hill from the University of Minnesota. Predicatably, some news outlets misleadingly suggested that the University of Minnesota had testified against the RFS.
During Rep. Tim Walz's visit to Guardian Energy last Friday, the Congressman got to meet several employees at the plant including Janesville resident, Trista Rogers, who once was Walz's student at Mankato West High School.
With under a week left for the EPA’s public comment period for its 2014, 2015 & 2016 RFS targets, some anti-ethanol advocates are heading to Washington D.C. to testify against the RFS.
Check out the report from KEYC on Congressman Walz's visit to the Guardian Energy facility in Janesville on July 17.
Highland Service Minnoco is the latest station in St Paul to offer E15 and E85.
E85 Usage in Minnesota continued to grow in May, according to the Minnesota Department of Commerce.
There are many ways to celebrate the Fourth of July. But this year, perhaps another item can be added onto the list : showing your support for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
The E15 Dispenser Bill, which was signed into law by Gov. Mark Dayton on June 13, goes into effect today, making Minnesota the first state in the nation to introduce a law that provides funding for fuel retailers to make minor modifications to dispense E15.
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The text below was delivered by the Minnesota Bio-Fuels Association at the EPA's RFS hearing at Kansas City, KS.
The E15 Dispenser bill, which was signed into law by Gov. Mark Dayton, goes into effect July 1 and will help up to 100 fuel retailers in the state make minor modifications to offer E15.
Following the EPA's announcement of its RFS targets for 2015 and 2016, we have launched a platform to enable biofuel supporters to send the agency comments on its ill-conceived proposal.
Christianson & Associates will be hold its 2015 Biofuels Financial Conference at the Embassy Suites in Bloomington from June 24 - 25.
The “blend wall,” a fictional concept devised by the oil industry to keep ethanol’s share of the market at 10 percent, has long been a fixation with the folks at the EPA.
The volume of E15 and E85 sold in Minnesota grew in April, the Minnesota Department of Commerce said in a report recently published.
We're all set for the Fuel Ethanol Workshop and Expo that begins today at the Minneapolis Convention Center and runs until June 3.
The EPA's long-awaited proposal for the RFS targets for ethanol consumption in 2014, 2015 and 2016 were finally announced today and as expected, it falls short of the original targets that were stipulated in the RFS. Here are a few key takeaways from the announcement.