The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will decide by late summer whether to allow higher levels of ethanol to be blended into standard transportation gasoline, the head of the agency recently reported. The EPA is considering an industry request for a waiver from federal rules to allow gasoline to contain up to 15% ethanol. EPA administrator [...]
Georgia Power to Delay Plant Mitchell Conversion
With the uncertainty of how future EPA regulations might affect industrial boiler emissions, Georgia Power has decided to delay the biomass conversion of coal-fueled Plant Mitchell in Albany, Ga., until the EPA rules are better defined in April 2010. The anticipated industrial boiler Maximum Achievable Control Technology rule, or “IB MACT,” would regulate emissions of hazardous [...]
EPA: More Time On E10 Request
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may not meet a December 1 deadline to decide whether to approve an industry request to boost the amount of ethanol that can be blended into gasoline, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said on November 9. The pro-ethanol trade group Growth Energy and 54 ethanol manufacturers petitioned the EPA last March [...]
Ag. Sec. Vilsack Supports 15% Ethanol
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said he is pushing the Environmental Protection Agency to raise the amount of ethanol allowed in gasoline as the deadline for a decision nears. Science indicates that a higher “blend wall” is safe for automobile engines, Vilsack said recently in an interview at a conference on global hunger in Des [...]
LCSFA Forms, Urges EPA to Promote Cleanest Renewables Compatible with Existing Infrastructure
Advanced biofuel producers announced the formation of the Low Carbon Synthetic Fuels Assn. (LCSFA), with members including TRI, Rentech Inc., Velocys, CHOREN, Flambeau River Biofuels/Johnson Timber, AP Fuels and World GTL. The LCSFA was formed to address existing legislative and regulatory inequities that have slowed or even hindered the development of advanced biofuels. Specifically, the [...]