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Today we feature Cheryl Avenel-Navara's views on biofuels. Avenel-Navara is running against Rep. Rod Hamilton in District 22B. Read her views below.
Today, we share with you Rep. Bob Gunther's views on biofuels. Gunther currently represents district 23A. Read his views on biofuels below.
Today we feature Pat Bacon's views on biofuels. Bacon is running against Rep. Bob Gunther for Minnesota House seat 23A. Read his views below.
For our final segment on what the candidates say on biofuels, we bring you gubernatorial candidate, Jeff Johnson's, views on biofuels.
In the run-up to the Nov 4 midterm elections, we brought you a series of what the candidates said about biofuels. The purpose of the series was to give voters an idea of which candidates, to put it frankly, would be good for the biofuels industry. Now that the elections are done and dusted, we take a look at what the results mean for the biofuel industry.
Congratulations to the Governor and those members, or soon to be members, of the Minnesota House of Representatives and the Minnesota Congressional Delegation for their election victories this past Tuesday. On behalf of the Minnesota Bio-Fuels Association, which represents biofuel producers across Minnesota, we look forward to working with the Governor and newly elected lawmakers as well as those lawmakers who will be returning to office.
Falling corn prices have had little impact on food prices thus refuting the notion that ethanol has driven up food prices, says Renewable Fuels Association chairman, Randall Doyal.
With the mid-term elections done and dusted, will the EPA finally release its final rule for the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)?
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Minnesota's biofuel production was the equivalent of 145.3 trillion Btu in 2012, a new map from the Department of Energy shows.
Once again, biofuels are blamed for high food prices. The University of Minnesota's environmental solutions magazine, Ensia, ran a story Wednesday addressing future food supply needs that incorrectly blamed biofuels for pushing food prices upwards.
The facts are in: rather than using more land to grow renewable ingredients for ethanol, farmers worldwide have been using land more efficiently.
Ethanol reduces the equivalent of emissions from 294,000 cars annually in Michigan, a new study by Michigan State University (MSU) concludes.
Following the mid-term elections, the Keystone XL pipeline has resurfaced as the issue of the day. Indeed, despite its defeat in the Senate yesterday, speculation is rife the controversial pipeline will be approved next year by both the Senate and Congress.
The EPA's long-awaited announcement on the RFS targets for 2014 were finally announced today. And the announcement? No decision on the 2014 RFS targets would be made in 2014.
Following the EPA's decision to postpone its final targets for the 2014 renewable volume obligations (RVOs) under the RFS, the ethanol industry is once again facing more questions than answers.
A Cenex in Starbuck and a new Minnoco in St Paul are the latest stations to offer E15 in Minnesota.