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Senator Stabenow Introduces Legislation To Provide Tax Credits For Renewable Chemical Production
On November 10, 2015, Senator Stabenow (D-MI), along with Senators Coons (D-DE) and Franken (D-MN), introduced S. 2271, the Renewable Chemicals Act of 2015 to the Senate. If passed, the bill would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to create short-term tax credits for the production of renewable chemicals and for investments in renewable chemical production facilities. Producing eligible ...
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BIO Releases Report On Advancing The Biobased Economy
On September 7, 2016, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) released the report "Advancing the Biobased Economy: Renewable Chemical Biorefinery Commercialization, Progress, and Market Opportunities, 2016 and Beyond." This report documents substantial growth in the renewable chemical industry, and covers domestic policies impacting renewable chemical commercialization. Policy drivers ...
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Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference March 1 - 3, 2017, Washington D.C.
The Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference 2017 (ABLC 2017) will be held March 1 - 3, 2017, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. ABLC is the gathering point for top leaders in the Advanced Bioeconomy -- bringing together the entire spectrum of advanced fuels, chemicals, and materials CEOs and senior executives, business developers, R&D leaders, strategic partners, financiers, ...
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Omnibus Spending Bill Signed Into Law Includes Extension of Biofuel Tax Credit
On December 18, 2015, President Obama signed the omnibus spending bill, or Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, into law. The $1.1 trillion spending bill includes the retroactive extension of the $1 per gallon tax credit for biodiesel and renewable diesel blenders through December 31, 2016, while extending the second-generation biofuel production credit through January 1, 2017. In addition to ...
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CRFA Salutes Enerkem`s Latest Financing Round for Green, Renewable Biofuels
The Canadian Renewable Fuels Association today congratulated waste-to-biofueIs renewable chemicals leader Enerkem Inc. on the announcement of $50 million in financing. As part of this financing, institutional fund Investissement Quebec joined Enerkem's existing investors and became a strategic investor in the company. This partnership will help build and strengthen capacity for domestic renewable ...
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Amyris Names Steven R. Mills as New Chief Financial Officer
Amyris, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMRS), a leading renewable chemicals and fuels company, today announced that Steven R. Mills has been appointed Chief Financial Officer effective May 2, 2012. Mills will replace Jeryl L. Hilleman, whose intent to depart during the course of this year was first announced in August 2011. “Steve’s three decade career at ADM brings ...
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Infocast`s Chem-Biobased Global Partnering Summit Premieres
The market is heating up! Spurred by a number of high-profile IPO announcements and partnerships, Infocast will unveil the premier edition of Chem-Biobased Global Partnering Summit that will take place from October 24-26, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency Houston in Houston, TX. This event will provide the latest market intelligence and insight into the business models of partnering strategies for ...
By Infocast
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Mapping The Future For UK Waste To Energy Post-Brexit
Are you a UK company concerned about the impact of Brexit on the UK waste to energy market? Will the outcome really be a catalyst for new domestic waste infrastructure? Has the second CfD round done enough to support the next wave of ACT projects? Join us at the upcoming World Waste to Energy & Resources Summit in London and take part in a series of panel debates and facilitated workshop ...
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Final Senate bi-partisan energy title support letter
Thank you for your continued leadership in moving the Farm Bill. As a final bill is written, we urge you to advocate vigorously for the adoption of the Senate's energy title, particularly the full $900 million in mandatory funding for its ''core" programs. Farm energy programs serve agriculture, rural communities and the entire nation by providing jobs, farm income and environmental benefits. ...
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Statoil & Bio Architecture Lab Partner to Commercialize Macroalgae-to-Ethanol Process in Norway
Statoil to Provide Direct Funding for R&D Demonstration Phase and Commercial Scale-Up in Norway BERKELEY, CA - 09/15/10 -- Bio Architecture Lab (BAL) and Statoil, one of the world's largest offshore oil and gas producers, today announced a wide-ranging strategic partnership for the production of renewable, sustainable and low cost ethanol derived from macroalgae grown off the coast of ...
By Statoil
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BIO’s 10th Annual World Congress to Feature Presentations on Latest in Advanced Biofuels, Renewable Chemicals and Commercialization
Global biofuel and renewable chemical company executives and managers developing strategies to further commercialization will speak in breakout sessions at BIO’s 10th annual World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology this June in Montreal, Canada. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) announced its breakout program for the 2013 World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology featuring ...
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Amyris and Method Partner to Develop Renewable Ingredients for Household & Personal Care Products
Amyris, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMRS), a leading renewable chemicals and fuels company, and Method Products, Inc., the leading innovator in premium, environmentally-conscious household and personal care products, have signed a Joint Development Agreement to generate a portfolio of novel molecules from Biofene, Amyris renewable farnesene made from plant ...
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Amyris and Total form fuels joint venture
Amyris and TOTAL announced today the formation of Total Amyris BioSolutions B.V., a 50-50 joint venture that now holds exclusive rights and a license under Amyris’s intellectual property to produce and market renewable diesel and jet fuel from Amyris’s renewable farnesene. TOTAL is Amyris’s largest investor, holding approximately 18% of its outstanding common stock, and is ...
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Key Investors Raise Their Participation in Enerkem Alberta Biofuels by C$37 Million as Facility Welcomes First Employees
Enerkem Inc. (http://www.enerkem.com), a waste-to-biofuels and chemical company, is pleased to welcome the first employees to the Enerkem Alberta Biofuels facility in Edmonton. This facility is currently under construction and will be one of the first full-scale advanced biofuels facilities in North America. It will use the City of Edmonton's non-recyclable and non-compostable waste to produce ...
By Enerkem
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BIO Applauds Rep. Kaptur’s Energy Investment Act of 2012
The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today thanked Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) and 16 other original cosponsors for introducing the Rural Energy Investment Act of 2012, which would reauthorize Farm Bill Energy Title programs, provide significant mandatory funding, and ensure eligibility for additional biorefineries and products, such as biobased products ...
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BP Joins GE, Google Ventures, ConocoPhillips, and NRG Energy in Investing in Cool Planet BioFuels
Cool Planet BioFuels, Inc. today announced that BP Technology Ventures has made an investment in the company’s C Round along with follow on investments by the company’s current investors, General Electric, Google Ventures, ConocoPhillips, NRG and North Bridge Venture Partners. The C Round was led by Shea Ventures. Cool Planet BioFuels is developing bio ...
By Cool Planet
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BIO Thanks Sens. Baucus, Hatch for Extending Tax Policy That Drives Innovation
The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today thanked Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and members of the Senate Finance Committee for including the Cellulosic Biofuels Producer Tax Credit (PTC), the Accelerated Depreciation Allowance for Cellulosic Biofuel Plant Property, adding algae biofuels in the tax extenders package, and extending ...
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BIO Announces Plenary Session Topics and Speakers for 2010 Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotech and Bioenergy
WASHINGTON - The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today announced that plenary speakers will discuss future drop-in transportation and aviation biofuels, potential advances in algae and marine biotechnology and efforts to commercialize renewable chemicals. Confirmed plenary session speakers include: Bobby Bringi, President and CEO, MBI Pat Gruber, CEO, Gevo Ron Stoltz, Manager, ...
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Bio4Energy Researchers: Pulping Side Stream May Be Harnessed for High Value-added Chemicals
Researchers in Bio4Energy have published a review article designed to guide biorefinery industry looking to make value-added products from side streams of pulp and paper production such as crude tall oil from trees. This is an area that is attracting the attention of several industrial operators in the vanguard of trying to make renewable chemicals with properties similar to chemicals refined ...
By Bio4Energy
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Enerkem voted 7th in the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy
Enerkem Inc. (www.enerkem.com), a waste-to-biofuels and chemicals company, is proud to be ranked 7th in Biofuels Digest's annual list of the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy2011-2012. For the past three years, Enerkem has steadily climbed this prestigious ranking from the 25th position in 2009, 16th in 2010, and 7th this year. "We thank our supporters for this honor and assure them of our ...
By Enerkem
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