The RIN task force, established by the National Biodiesel Board to prevent fraud in the renewable identification number (RIN) credit market, is fully staffed and held its first conference call meeting yesterday.
The National Biodiesel Foundation raised nearly $22,000 at its 4th Annual Silent Auction and raffle. Funding benefits outreach, education, research and demonstration activities for the advancement of biodiesel.
Imperium Renewables operates a 100 million gallon per year biodiesel facility that is located in Aberdeen, Wash. The facility produces high quality biodiesel from canola oil for the domestic and global marketplace.
A key ag tax break failed to make it into the payroll tax holiday extension, and the biodiesel tax credit’s chances of being renewed this year, have now narrowed. The National Biodiesel Board, the American Soybean Association and others lobbied for weeks to include a renewal of the expired biodiesel tax credit in an already controversial payroll tax extension.
High school seniors in Minnesota are encouraged to apply for the 2012 Reuben Youngerberg Memorial Biodiesel Essay Scholarship. The scholarship is given in memory of Reuben Youngerberg, and in honor of his son, Mike Youngerberg, senior director of field services at Minnesota Soybean Growers Association and huge supporter of biodiesel.
Going over my notes from last week’s National Biodiesel Conference I am seeing some good quotes that did not appear in my editorial coverage of the event.
Last week as the National Biodiesel Conference took place in Orlando, a group of biodiesel producers and stakeholders in the Northwest U.S. came together in a joint statement to support the reinstatement of the $1 per gallon federal biodiesel blenders credit, which expired again on Dec. 31.
Fresh from their annual conference in Orlando, biodiesel producers say they’ll need help from lawmakers to open the throttle on fuel production. The chief executive of the National Biodiesel Board, Joe Jobe, told conference goers that boosting the federally mandated minimum volume of biodiesel slated for use next year is the single biggest challenge facing their industry.
At the National Biodiesel Board’s annual conference which wrapped up in Orlando earlier this week, fuel producers and marketers celebrated the industry’s rapid growth. One of the biggest consumers of biodiesel in Central Florida is based right here in Orlando.
Experts from the U.S. and Canada called for increased usage of biodiesel in North America, saying the sustainable transportation fuel protects the continent’s energy security and augments the food supply of the entire world, while providing a positive impact on climate change. The scientists, academics and economic analysts gathered in Orlando for the “Sustainability Symposium on Renewable and Transportation Fuels,” part of the National Biodiesel Conference and Expo and organized by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
