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Top 10 in Law Blogs: LXBN July 30, 2012
This may not be as well-known to those who live out on the coasts, but the United States is currently suffering through a drought as bad as any we've seen…
Renewable + Law
Stoel Rives Earns Top Professional Services Position in Biofuels Digest’s Hot 40 Partners
By Graham Noyes
Stoel Rives is honored to have been named the top partner in the Professional Counselors and Services category by the readers of Biofuels Digest, the most widely read daily news…
Environmental Law Prof Blog
In Case You Missed It: The Week of May 20-26
* Republican-led Ohio legislature passes bill establishing energy fracking rules. * Climate scientists say warming could exceed the dangerous 3.5 C threshold. * Indian state legalizes the shooting of tiger poachers on…
Renewable + Law
EPA Releases Green Diesel Notice of Violation
By Graham Noyes
Yesterday the EPA released the third major Notice of Violation ("NOV") against a biofuel producer in the past six months under the Renewable Fuel Standard ("RFS"). The NOV states that…
Washington Energy Report
Department of Energy to Fund Research on Biomass Based Supplements for Traditional Fuels
On April 10, 2012, the Department of Energy (“DOE”) announced that it is offering up to $15 million in funding to companies, universities, or laboratories working to develop biomass-based oil…
Energy Business Law
DOE Announces Grant Program for Bio-Oils Research to Produce Renewable Transportation Fuels
by Bethany K. Hatef The Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it has $15 million available to award for the development and demonstration of biomass-based oil supplements, or bio-oils. The…
Renewable + Law
Joint Agency Effort to deploy $510 Million to Support Drop-In Aviation and Marine Biofuels
By John Laney
Yesterday, President Obama announced that the U.S. Departments of Agriculture (“USDA”), Energy (“DOE”), and Navy (“USN”, and together with the USDA and DOE, the “Agencies”) will invest up to $510…
Global Regulatory Enforcement Law Blog
Anchors Aweigh! U.S. Navy to Sail on Biofuels
This post was also written by Philip G. Lookadoo and Marco A. DeSousa. In another move demonstrating the Defense Department’s commitment to renewable energy, the U.S. Navy recently announced that it intends…
Environmental Law Prof Blog
New Labels For a New Ethanol Fuel
This week, the EPA finalized labeling regulations for "E15" fuels--gasoline-ethanol blends that have "more than 10 and up to 15 percent ethanol." The regulations attempt to ensure that drivers of…
Renewable + Law
This Week in Biofuels, A Patent Perspective
On December 7, 2010 the United States Patent Office published several new biofuels-related patents, including one to Amyris Biotechnologies relating to a jet fuel or diesel fuel including a bioengineered…