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  • Clinton backs push to cellulosic ethanol

    Bill Cliniton, sometime US president, has been talking at the National Clean Energy Summit, in Las Vegas, last night. According to earth2tech, in 10 Things the US Government should do for clean power he said: We need to accelerate the move from corn-based ethanol to more sustainable biofuels. The conversion...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-19-2008

  • Two US associations react to rising food prices

    The National Biodiesel Board and the Renewable Fuels Associatio n have issued statements refuting the position of many of the US food sales companies that rising food costs are being caused by rising crop prices. They may have a point in the US which consumes a significant amount of processed food where...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-11-2008

  • US biofuel industry says: don't blame us for food price hikes

    The US National Biodiesel Board is telling people that the rise in prices at grocery stores is down to the rise in fuel prices not down to the diversion of food crops in the US into fuel. Joe Jobe, the NBB ceo says that the Grocery Manufacturers Association is campaigning to put the blame for higher...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-23-2008

  • Raising and maintaining biodiesel standards

    One of the biggest problems, it seems to me, that biofuel producers face is ensuring that product is the same batch to batch. So its good to see on Domestic Fuel that one third of US biodiesel producers have won BQ 9000 certification from the US National Biodiesel Accreditation Commission (NBAC). Consistent...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-21-2008

  • The cost of lobbying for biodiesel

    The cost of lobbying by the National Biodisel Board in the US has been published by Congress. In 2007 the National Biodiesel Board spent about $1.2m, which seems pretty small beer to me, according to Hemscott
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-04-2008

  • Jim Lovel speaks at National Biodiesl board meeting

    Jim Lovell of Apollo 13 spoke at the recent National Biodiesel Board meeting in Orlando, covered by my colleague Stephen Burns for ICIS and caught for posterity on his camera phone.
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-07-2008

  • Drying of the West

    You might not want to build an ethanol plant west of the Mississippi after you've read this article in National Geographic Magazine about the Drying of the West . It looks like the Western states of the US have been enjoying something of a bath for the past 200 years and global warming is pulling...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-28-2008
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