Articles By John McGarrity

31 Jan 2023 | John McGarrity
US agribusiness company Green Plains on Tuesday said it has set up a joint venture – named Blue Blade – with energy infrastructure company Tallgrass and United Airlines to develop full-scale alcohol-to-jet production from ethanol by 2028...
17 Jan 2023 | John McGarrity
Germany’s Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke on Tuesday said that she will soon introduce proposals to curb the use of crop-based biofuels in the country, which is the EU’s biggest member state in terms of fuel consumption and a major producer of ethanol and biodiesel from edible crops...
14 Sep 2022 | John McGarrity
The European Parliament on Wednesday backed proposals that crop-based biofuels such as corn-based ethanol and rapeseed-based biodiesel should still play a meaningful role in meeting transport decarbonisation target...
25 Aug 2022 | John McGarrity
Argentina’s government will extend its 12.5% biodiesel blend rate as part of its efforts to alleviate the impact of high costs of...
22 Aug 2022 | John McGarrity
Canada’s imports of ethanol are forecast to rise 18% this year as higher regional mandates and a recovery in fuel demand from...
Water levels at a critical chokepoint on the Rhine River are forecast to soon rise to levels that would facilitate the full...
3 Aug 2022 | John McGarrity
US ethanol, food and feed products company Green Plains has turned in a higher overall profit for the second quarter...
29 Jul 2022 | John McGarrity
Democrats in the US Senate have agreed to back the Inflation Reduction Act, which contains several major provisions to...
15 Jul 2022 | John McGarrity
Combined consumption of various biodiesels as a whole is set to stagnate in the EU in 2022, with barely any change from last...
15 Jul 2022 | John McGarrity
Consumption of fuel ethanol in the EU could rise 2.3% this year, which would be a new record for the 27-nation bloc, an annual...
13 Jul 2022 | John McGarrity
An influential committee of MEPs voted in favour of meaningful roles for biofuels based on standard wastes and crops on...
28 Jun 2022 | John McGarrity
The European Council has backed many of the European Commission’s proposals on crop-based biofuels in a revised version of the Renewable Energy Directive...
27 Jun 2022 | John McGarrity
A proposal from Germany to temporarily reduce the volume of biofuels consumption in G7 countries has failed to gain traction at a summit of the grouping being held in Bavaria, according to media reports on Sunday...
15 Jun 2022 | John McGarrity
India’s consumption of fuel ethanol will rise 26% in 2022 compared with last year, the US Department of Agriculture...
14 Jun 2022 | John McGarrity
Latvia on Tuesday scrapped the mandatory blending of biofuel from 1 July this year until the end of 2023, the country's environment ministry said...
1 Jun 2022 | John McGarrity
The Biden administration is considering raising ethanol blending mandates for 2021, above the threshold it proposed in...
18 May 2022 | John McGarrity
Germany-based ethanol and animal feed producer CropEnergies on Wednesday said it made a record profit in the 2021/22 financial year with the biggest uptick in earnings made in the autumn/winter period as demand...
12 May 2022 | John McGarrity
An explosion at an ethanol plant in Illinois has hospitalised two people and caused up to $2 million in damage to silos at the former ADM facility...
9 May 2022 | John McGarrity
The increasingly vexed question of whether crop-based biofuels production is contributing to a global food crisis is likely to be...
4 Apr 2022 | John McGarrity
Countries, companies and individuals need to do much more to slash greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, farming and...
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