by Leticia Phillips | Jul 15, 2020 | ethanol, sustainability
Policymakers around the world are working on plans which promise to phase out fossil fuels and introduce a carbon neutral environment for future generations. The European Union’s Green Deal seeks to make the Continent climate neutral by 2050, a target to be enshrined...
by Leticia Phillips | Aug 17, 2018 | biofuels, ethanol
The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) celebrates its thirteenth anniversary this month and remains a foundational energy policy that enhances America’s energy security and improves the environment. Brazilian sugarcane biofuel producers are proud of the modest but...
by Leticia Phillips | Apr 3, 2018 | Sem categoria
As the world’s largest ethanol producers, the U.S. and Brazil enjoy the benefits of trading biofuels. Our two countries have worked together for many years to build a global biofuels market that provides clean, affordable and sustainable solutions to our planet’s...
by Leticia Phillips | Dec 4, 2017 | Sem categoria
Building, in part, on the successes and lessons learned from two signature American policies, Brazil is poised to launch a government program that will support the continued development and use of low-carbon, clean biofuels. This new initiative, dubbed RenovaBio, will...
by Leticia Phillips | Jul 24, 2017 | Sem categoria
Brazil may be the world’s largest producer of sugar, but the nation’s sugarcane harvests aren’t just winding up in your cup of coffee. They’re flowing into gas tanks as low-emission sugarcane ethanol, generating clean electricity from biomass to help fight climate...
by Leticia Phillips | Feb 17, 2017 | Sem categoria
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has accepted comments on a proposal that would allow, among other things, biofuel producers to partially process renewable feedstocks at one facility and further process them into renewable fuels at another facility. EPA...
by Leticia Phillips | Nov 14, 2016 | Sem categoria
This article originally ran at Ethanol Producer Magazine. The Paris Agreement on Climate Change entered into force in September, starting a coordinated effort by the world’s governments to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and limit climate change impacts. It’s far from...
by Leticia Phillips | Nov 30, 2015 | Sem categoria
The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (known by the acronym “UNICA”) issued the following statement regarding the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final renewable volume obligations for 2014-2016 through the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). It should be...
by Leticia Phillips | Nov 12, 2015 | Sem categoria
The Office of Management and Budget has begun reviewing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) volume targets for 2014-2016, signaling an end to the long and winding road toward regulatory certainty for America’s advanced...
by Leticia Phillips | Jul 29, 2015 | Sem categoria
The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (“UNICA”) this week submitted formal comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency opposing changes to the proposed Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) volume targets for 2014, 2015 and 2016. In the past UNICA has...
by Leticia Phillips | Jun 30, 2015 | Sem categoria
Today, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is visiting Washington, D.C. to strengthen the relationship between two of the Western Hemisphere’s biggest nations. But as with any successful relationship, compromise is key on important issues, and President Rousseff plans...
by Leticia Phillips | Jun 23, 2015 | Sem categoria
The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (known by the acronym “UNICA”) issued the following statement regarding changes to Brazil’s tax policy on imported ethanol. It should be attributed to Elizabeth Farina, UNICA President. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff...
by Leticia Phillips | May 29, 2015 | Sem categoria
The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (known by the acronym “UNICA”) issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s rules proposal for the 2014, 2015, and 2016 Renewable Fuels Standard. It should be...
by Leticia Phillips | Apr 7, 2015 | Sem categoria
Last Friday, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) held a workshop on the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) re-adoption process. Updates to CARB’s indirect land-use change (ILUC) modeling and carbon intensity lifecycle analysis reinforce a key fact – sugarcane...
by Leticia Phillips | Dec 9, 2014 | Sem categoria
The advanced biofuels industry may get some answers tomorrow during a House Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care, and Entitlements hearing on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent decision to not finalize 2014 volume targets under the Renewable...
