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Massachusetts to Accept Only Waste-Derived Biofuels to Qualify for Mandate for Diesel and Home Heating Oil

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Other forms of renewable biomass—agricultural crop residues, dedicated energy crops, or algae—are excluded. In response to the release of the plan, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) issued a statement urging DOER to accept applications for qualifying advanced biofuels from biofuel producers using all sources of renewable biomass.

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Birmingham study finds butanol-gasoline blend reduces GDI engine-out carbonaceous emissions; similar NOx

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A feasible short-to-midterm solution for addressing additional emissions reduction with a decreased in the demand of high quality fossil fuels is to use renewable bio-alcohols fuels such as butanol, which is considered a second generation of renewable transportation fuel. At low loads, butanol’s physical properties (e.g.

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