Bioenergy is the workhorse of EU renewable energy contributing over 60% to the current level of renewables in the EU. This week the European Commission launched a consultation on sustainable bioenergy policy-read about it here.
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In comments to the EPA, CVR Energy, which owns merchant refineries in Kansas and Oklahoma, charges the agency with “failure to remove the market constraints that are preventing more renewable fuel from being blended.” Read the full story here.
Nearly 60 producers and providers of clean fuels – ranging from electricity to renewable diesel – have signed a joint letter urging California policymakers to sustain the state’s low carbon fuel policy. Read the story here.
US biofuels lobby group Growth Energy has submitted comments to a public consultation on the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2017 Renewable Volume Obligations (RVOs), which are part of the broader Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). Read the biofuels international story here.
Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration has been talking directly with oil companies in hopes of reaching a consensus on extending California’s landmark climate programs, opening a back channel with an industry the governor has harshly criticized as a barrier to addressing global warming. Read the Los Angeles Times story here.