When last I wrote about Range Fuels at the beginning of 2011, the company had just closed its doors. The US Department of Energy (DOE) had suspended grant payments to the company after it failed to successfully demonstrate the final ...
Construction of Point BioEnergy's Port Allen/Port of Greater Baton Rouge wood pellet facility is scheduled to begin at the end of 1Q2012. Point Bioenergy recently announced that it has contracted with the Conti Group to design and build the plant, ...
American Renewables' 100-MW biomass power project in Gainesville, Florida is under construction. The facility plans to consume logging and sawmill residues. It is schedule to be operational in late 2013. The 75 MW wood-to-electricity Burgess BioPower plant is under construction ...
Mascoma Corporation and Valero Energy have entered into a joint venture to develop a commercial-scale hardwood-to cellulosic ethanol facility in Kinross, Michigan. The 20 million gallon per year facility will be funded by Valero (the majority of the investment), with ...
Thomas Huxley, the noted 19th Century English biologist, once said that "science is simply common sense at its best." Huxley's observation rings true-especially for those of us in forestry and forest-related industries-when it comes to the science underpinning policy discussions about forests and carbon. Instead of taking a common sense view, some outside of forestry choose to take a myopic view of the relationship between forests and carbon emissions, ...
After years of legal and regulatory uncertainty, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may be on the verge of a final decision regarding the implementation of a provision of the Clean Air Act (CAA) known as the Boiler Maximum Achievable ...
In November, the Oregon Department of Energy issued the final rules for the Biomass Producer or Collector (BPC) Tax Credit program. The program, which provided a $10/ton per green ton tax credit for biomass delivered to biofuels facilities, was set ...
