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A federal court in the German city of Leipzig has deferred a decision until 27 February on whether diesel cars can be banned or curbed from particular cities during periods when air quality is poor.
The European Commission has signalled a review into anti-dumping measures that have been in place for five years that target US ethanol imports – a measure that effectively defers a decision for another 15 months.
The US Commerce Department has increased what were already punitive anti-dumping duties on biodiesel imports from Argentina and Indonesia, effectively blocking off palm and soybean derived fuels from entering the US market.
Italian energy company Eni has no immediate plans to switch from palm oil at its Porto Marghera biodiesel, refinery despite much fanfare that the facility would switch away from the crop to advanced biofuels and used cooking oil.
Argentina’s Buenos Aires province has drawn up a dedicated plan for the production and marketing of biodiesel, with the aim of raising production to 50% of the volume of processed soybean in the province, up from 13% currently.
The types of biofuels that can be used in the UN aviation agency ICAO’s carbon reduction scheme could be reviewed during the 2021-2023 pilot phase, a senior European Commission advisor told MEPs this week.
The use of liquid biofuels could triple by 2030 compared with 2010 levels to reach 66 billion litres, a report prepared for the European Commission found this week.
RTFCs showed signs of shrugging off the winter quiet spell, as buying interest picked up and Year 10 sellers "pounced".
Malaysia has brought its lobbying campaign to the heart of Brussels’ Berlaymont building in a bid to scupper the European Parliament’s proposed exclusion of palm oil in renewable energy, amid fears in member states that they could lose valuable export contracts.
Germany’s consumption of biodiesel rose 2% in January-November 2017 compared with the first 11 months in 2016 as tighter CO2 targets for biofuels increased consumption of products that have a lower carbon footprint than bioethanol.
US space agency NASA and European academics will in a few months release findings on the extent to which biofuels reduce pollution from aircraft.
Germany is mulling plans to make public transport free of charge as the government considers radical action to comply with EU pollution targets and avoid heavy fines.
A plan by Texas Senator John Cornyn to revise US biofuels policy is facing strong resistance from the oil and ethanol sectors, Reuters reported this week, quoting sources familiar with the matter.
The Netherlands has become the latest EU country to promise that it will not discriminate against the crop’s use in the bloc’s renewable energy scheme after 2021, according to reports in the Malaysian media.
Advanced biofuels will supply far less than hoped during the next decade without a binding EU mandate for the sector from 2021, a lobby group for the sector said this week.
Year 10 and Year 11 certificates were assessed unchanged on Friday at 15 p for Year 10 and 15.5 p for Year 11 as a familiar pattern held sway over RTFC prices.
Waste-to-energy producer Enerkem has landed one of the biggest venture capital deals ever in Canada, securing C$280m ($221m) in investments that will be used to fund a global expansion.
Neste, one of Europe’s biggest producers of biofuels, reported stronger profits for 2017 and expects the additional margin for renewable products to stay at a “good” level in 2018.
A proposed budget deal to avoid a shutdown of the US federal government has included a one-year reinstatement of the biodiesel rebate, which will be applied retroactively for 2017.
UPM, an Helsinki-headquartered refiner of advanced biofuels, is exploring whether to build a possible 500,000 mt/year biorefinery in south-eastern Finland - but is unlikely to take a decision until next year at the earliest.