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Argentine exports of biofuels have fallen 30% in the third quarter of 2017 versus the year before, selling just 353,034 mt in July through September versus 507,260 mt in the same corresponding period.
Energy major Royal Anglo Dutch Shell has revealed a fresh target to cut its emissions of carbon dioxide by around 50% by the year 2050 in a company strategy update released Tuesday.
The approaching end-of-the-line for Year 9 left limited influence on prices in a malaise that extended to much of the RTFC market. At the end of the week, bids and offers remained in a tight, unyielding range with offers on Year 10 and Year 11 heard in much the same region as in the previous week - 21.7 p for Year 10, a slightly lower 22 p for Year 11.
London’s red buses will soon run on waste from coffee shops, after London based Bio-bean agreed to conduct a demonstration project with oil major Shell.
Malaysia and Indonesia have said EU lawmakers' attempts to curb palm oil use in biofuels will impact the livelihood of 18 million farmers, is unfair, and may trigger retaliatory measures.
The UK Department of Transport has said it is “on track” to make changes to its Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation by April 2018, although declined to say when the legislation will be passed.
China’s biggest private airline has powered its first commercial international flight using biofuels, flying on a route from Beijing to Chicago on a 15% blend of used cooking oil.
The UK government this week earmarked £340 million to build a national charging network as it seeks to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, and said it would allow self-driving vehicles on the road by 2021, but it failed to pass measures that would have boosted ethanol use in the country’s 36 million road vehicles.
French biodiesel producer Saipol is to mothball its Sète facility in the south of the country citing an influx of biodiesel from Argentina following the EU's decision to change import duties levied on the volumes, local media has reported this week.
The development of the US ethanol industry has inadvertently led to a massive increase in carbon emissions, a University of Wisconsin-Madison study released Wednesday said.
Protestors dressed as orangutans entered the lobby of Carrefour headquarters to protest its use of palm oil-based biofuels at its petrol stations in France on Thursday.
The lead committee steering an EU bill that seeks to deepen bloc-wide biofuels and renewable energy targets will later this month attempt to broker a compromise between factions of the European Parliament over how tough fresh targets should be, whether nations should have individual targets and whether to allow crop-based fuels.
As Year 9 certificates enter their last two weeks of trading, buying appetite was scarcer although prices continued to be heard offered at parity to Year 10.
The US National Biodiesel Board has written to President Trump to praise his support of the Renewable Fuel Standard, decry complaints from the US refining sector and call for the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2018 and 2019 production volume target proposals to be revised.
The UK ethanol production company Vivergo has announced it is bringing forward maintenance at its Humberside facility citing a cocktail of low ethanol prices on the international market and a perceived lack of clear legislative ambition in the UK’s biofuel policy.
The US has slapped an import duty of 71-72% on imports of Argentine biofuel, according to a statement published by the US Department of Commerce, in a move that could trigger a WTO appeal and shut out Argentinian SME from the US market.
RTFC values weakened as sellers were heard offering Year 9 and Year 10 at parity with each other - prices on the offer heard at 21.7 p, while Year 11 also heard offered at 22.25p.
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who was a special adviser to President Donald Trump, has been subpoenaed over his role on advising the President on changes to the US Renewable Fuel Standard, according to a disclosure from the US Attorney’s office and published by Icahn’s company – Icahn Enterprises.
Ambitious proposals to cut emissions in new cars across the European region stand accused of being fatally undermined after an apparent last-minute concession was made to the German car industry.
Shares in Tesla, the catalyst for change in vehicle powertrains, took a battering this week, as its quarterly results revealed bigger-than-expected losses and the company acknowledged delays in producing its ground-breaking Model 3.