Topic
Biofuels
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Renewable + Law
Voting Underway for Biofuels Digest Hottest Partners List
By Graham Noyes
Voting is underway for the 2013 Hottest Partners in Biofuels and BioBased Products, a poll conducted by our friend Jim Lane of Biofuels Digest. Poll categories include: Distributors Engineering, procurement…
Renewable + Law
Comment Period Coming to a Close for EPA’s Proposed Rule Creating New Quality Assurance Program for Renewable Identification Numbers
By Thomas Braun
On February 21, 2013, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) opened the comment period on a proposed rule that would create a Quality Assurance Program (“QAP”) to combat fraudulently-created Renewable…
Energy & Environmental Law Blog
Advanced Biofuels Dealt Setback
By Greg Russell
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently dealt "a blow to the biofuel industry Friday when it ruled the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must lower…
Nano and Other Emerging Chemical Technologies Blog
Court Vacates 2012 Cellulosic Biofuel Requirements
On January 25, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2012 cellulosic biofuel requirements under the renewable fuel…
Environmental Law Prof Blog
In Case You Missed it: Week of January 21-27
- Climate change took a prominent place in President Obama's Second Inaugural Address. - The D.C. Circuit overturned EPA's biofuels mandate. - The D.C. Circuit also denied rehearing in the cross-state air…
Nano and Other Emerging Chemical Technologies Blog
BP Cancels Plans to Build Cellulosic Ethanol Plant in Florida
BP announced on October 25, 2012, that it canceled its plans to build a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in Highlands County, Florida, and would instead refocus its U.S. biofuels strategy…
Renewable + Law
New Advanced Biofuels Practice Page and Legal Guide for Advanced Biofuels
By Graham Noyes
Stoel Rives has long been a trusted advisor to the biofuels industry. Since the industry’s inception, we have assisted biofuel companies in launching ventures, obtaining financing, ensuring regulatory compliance, licensing…
Inside EU Life Sciences
The European Commission Proposes New Requirements on Biofuels Marketed in Europe
By Cándido García Molyneux, Rubén Kraiem
Originally published as Covington E-Alert on October 23, 2012 On October 17, 2012, the European Commission presented a proposal that would limit the consumption of food crop biofuels and bioliquids…
Workplace Safety and Environmental Law Alert Blog
Will Europe Keep Putting the Brakes on U.S. Biofuels?
By Philip L. Comella and William R. Schubert As a recent trade ruling by the European Commission illustrates, the economic forecast for the U.S. biofuels industry is susceptible to the decisions…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
D.C. Circuit: No Standing to Challenge EPA Fuel Regs
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
A sharply divided three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit ruled on Friday in Grocery Manufacturers Ass'n v. EPA that three trade associations lacked standing to challenge EPA's "partial" waivers allowing the…