Category: ethanol

EPA Trims Ethanol Requirements, Citing Reduced Demand Due to COVID-19 Pandemic

December 8, 2021
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The Biden administration Tuesday slashed its production requirements for ethanol and other biofuels, citing reduced demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Administration officials also moved to deny petitions to exempt small refineries from their obligations under the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), saying that they weren’t able to show exemptions were justified under the Clean…

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Alcohol Poisoning Leaves 29 Dead in Russia

October 9, 2021
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MOSCOW–Russian authorities said on Saturday 29 people had died from alcohol poisoning this week in a region near Kazakhstan after consuming locally produced spirits that contained methanol. Investigators probing the production and sale of the illegal spirits said nine people had been detained in connection with the deaths in the Orenburg region, which lies some…

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Biofuels Expansion Will Drive Up Food Costs, Says Environmental Economist

July 3, 2021
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In the push to achieve net-zero emissions, Canada’s rapid expansion of the biofuels sector could have negative consequences as studies show that biofuels production leads directly to food price increases, an environmental economist says. “There’s been a long-standing theme in the economics literature around ethanol and biofuels policy that there’s competition with the food supply,”…

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