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USDA awards $25M for Iowa biodiesel plant
CBS News
(AP) DES MOINES, Iowa — The US Department of Agriculture awarded $25 million Friday to an eastern Iowa plant for its project to turn garbage into fuel. Maryland-based Fiberight LLC is building the plant, which would work with a local landfill to ...
USDA will give $25 million to Iowa waste-ethanol plantDesMoinesRegister.com (blog)

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Biodiesel Workshop
WGBA-TV
By NBC26 News Team ONEIDA, WI - A workshop was held in Oneida Friday teaching farmers how to grow their own energy! Directors at Wisconsin Bioenergy Services say farmers can make their own fuel and energy, even on a small-scale farm. ...

REG still interested in Emporia plant
Emporia Gazette
One indication of the biodiesel company's interest in Emporia was the announcement Thursday of its initial public offering of 7.2 million shares of stock at $10 per share. “They think they're going to raise about $86.5 million,” said Kent Heermann, ...

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Keokuk Gate City Daily
New life for plants
Keokuk Gate City Daily
By Steve Dunn/Managing Editor A biodiesel plant in Keokuk that has sat idle for three years will resume operation in a few weeks under new ownership. Plant manager Dennis Clark told US Rep. Dave Loebsack Thursday W2 Fuel hopes to have the plant up and ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Neil Young company sued over warehouse fire
San Francisco Chronicle
A company founded by Young, Unigard Insurance Co., sued LincVolt LLC this week, accusing the company of negligence for converting the 1959 Lincoln Continental to run on electricity and a biodiesel-powered generator. His car caught on fire in 2010. ...
Neil Young company sued over SF Bay area warehouse fireWashington Post

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HC bars biodiesel stocks disposal
IBNLive.com
HYDERABAD: The AP High Court on Thursday barred a biodiesel export company from disposing of its stocks until it hears a dispute relating to a tax demand slapped on the company by the Union Commerce Ministry. Xtraa Clean Cities Ltd, ...
Biodiesel dispute: Firm asked to hold on to stockTimes of India

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Biodiesel Market in Spain, Market Outlook to 2020, 2011 Update - Production ...
Environmental Expert (press release)
The research provides global overview of biodiesel market along with production (in million liters) until 2020. In the global section, the report also analyzes global biodiesel trade analysis during the period of 2006-2020. The report covers detail ...

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Money Is All That's Green in Biodiesel
Inter Press Service
By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 19, 2012 (IPS) - The only green in biodiesel fuel is the money producers make from it, new research has revealed. Most biodiesel production is making climate change worse not better, studies show. ...

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Marketers Demand 'Full Disclosure' by Refiners of Biodiesel Blend Levels
CSPnet.com
ASTM specifications define diesel as any fuel containing up to 5% biodiesel, which means suppliers do not have to disclose what portion of their diesel is biofuel if it is not more than 5%. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) also only requires labeling ...

EcoSeed
Renewable Energy Rises in Public Debut After Pricing Below Range
Bloomberg
Renewable Energy Group Inc. (REGI), the biggest US biodiesel maker, was little changed in its trading debut after raising $72 million in an initial public offering, less than first proposed. The shares rose 1 percent to $10.10 at 4 pm New York time. ...
Shares of biofuel maker Renewable Energy Group rise a bit in market debutDesMoinesRegister.com
Renewable Energy, First US IPO Of 2012, Closes Up 1%Wall Street Journal
Biofuel producer Renewable Energy Group sets IPOMarketWatch
EcoSeed -Biofuels Digest
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EPA approves camelina oil as a feedstock
Western Farm Press
EPA's proposal shows that biodiesel produced from camelina oil reduces greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50 percent compared with diesel fuel. "Biodiesel's evolving feedstock diversity is one of its greatest strengths, and we're pleased to see the ...

Poo Water Being Transformed Into Biodiesel, Methane For Poor African Communities
Gas 2.0
And thanks to a $1.5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a new refining process that turns fecal waste into usable biodiesel and methane has opened its first production plant in Ghana. Poop is a problem for much of Africa's ...

msnbc.com
Ocean robots could sail seas and farm fuel from algae
msnbc.com
But its design could someday spawn fleets of robotic farms that harness the ocean winds and sunshine to make cheap, algae-based biodiesel fuel for cars, trains and aircraft. That vision set forth by BEAR Oceanics aims for self-sustaining robot farms ...
Sea Robots Farm Algae for FuelBig Think

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Extreme BioDiesel Announces New Product from Waste
MarketWatch (press release)
Extreme BioDiesel has developed a new, more profitable use for its waste product, raw glycerin. The new product has already been tested and utilized in the loading, transportation and delivery of concrete and asphalt construction products. ...

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ASA taps biodiesel tax credit and RFS protection as two highlights for 2011
Biofuels Digest
The ASA noted its support for the biodiesel industry in an effort to extend the biodiesel tax credit in 2011, which helped the industry reach record biodiesel production levels in 2011. It also worked in conjunction with the United Soybean Board, ...
Minnesota, Iowa growers elected to American Soybean Association leadersPost-Bulletin

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Springboard Biodiesel Teams With Pinnacle Capital to Provide Schools With ...
MarketWatch (press release)
CHICO, CA, Jan 05, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Springboard Biodiesel and Pinnacle Capital announced this morning a new and innovative financing program designed to help US educational institutions -- public and private -- establish small-scale ...

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Illinois extends biodiesel tax credit
Biofuels International
The Illinois state government has extended the tax credit for biodiesel for an extra five years, until 2018. Originally the credit was due to run out in 2013, but now biodiesel blends of more than 1% and less than 10% will continue to have tax applied ...

Biodiesel Magazine (blog)
Biodiesel and the 'unconstitutional' LCFS
Biodiesel Magazine (blog)
The LCFS excluded corn ethanol due to its high carbon intensity, but used cooking oil biodiesel achieved the lowest rating ever scored by CARB. So what's the biodiesel industry's position on the finding that the LCFS violates the US constitution? ...

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Renewable Energy, First US IPO Of 2012, Sets Launch Date
Wall Street Journal
By Lynn Cowan Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES The first US initial public offering to step forward in the new year comes from Renewable Energy Group Inc., a biodiesel fuel company that is planning to launch in two weeks. The company, based in Iowa, ...
Renewable Energy sets IPO date of Jan. 19MarketWatch
Renewable Energy Group Expects to Price IPO Between $13 and $15Bloomberg
Renewable Energy Group plots $87m IPOBusiness Green
NASDAQ -Stock Market Digital -Renaissance Capital
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The National
Subsidies on fuel slow biodiesel adoption, says Neutral Group
The National
While recycled biodiesel is commercially viable alongside fossil-based diesel, biodiesel made from from plants such as corn and grain is more expensive, and cannot compete with conventional fuel. Jeff Topping / The National Biofuel and energy-efficient ...
Fossil fuel subsidies making biofuels uncompetitive in UAEBiofuels Digest

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