Published on
Tuesday, September 29 2020
Authors: Robert Auers and John Auers
“Take this Job and Shove It” was written by David Allen Coe in 1977 and made famous that same year by Johnny Paycheck. Just as the protagonist in the song is making plans to quit his long-time and unsatisfying factory job, British Petroleum (one of the original “Seven Sisters”) more…
Published on
Tuesday, September 22 2020
Authors: Eamon Cullinane
On Monday, September 14, the EPA announced it denied 54 “gap-year” petitions filed by small refineries stating that since the refineries have already been able to comply with their past annual RFS obligations and have indeed remained a commercial entity, they do not qualify for the exemptions. This represents a…
Published on
Wednesday, September 16 2020
Authors: Elizabeth Hilbourn
RNG Growth Began in 2014 On July 2, 2014, the EPA finalized amendments to the RFS program qualifying additional pathways that could be used in producing renewable fuel. Compressed natural gas (R-CNG) and liquefied natural gas (R-LNG) produced using biogas from landfills, municipal wastewater treatment facility digesters, agricultural digesters, and…
Published on
Tuesday, September 15 2020
Authors: Elizabeth Hilbourn
Both California and Oregon have had low carbon fuel programs for several years now. The California Air Resource Board (CARB) identified the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) as one of nine items under the AB32 Scoping Plan, approved the LCFS regulation in 2009 and began implementation on January 1, 2011.…
