Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

E15 blended gasoline is now available in four of North Dakota’s larger cities. North Dakota is the ninth state to offer the fuel blend containing 15% ethanol and 85% gasoline. The others are Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2019

In a joint petition filed with the US Court of Appeals, an alliance of ethanol, agriculture, and clean fuel organizations has requested judicial review of a recent US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rulemaking that would limit ethanol blending and restrict the use of blender pumps. —NFU President Roger Johnson.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The first , with co-sponsor Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) would approve certain advanced biofuel registrations that have gone without approval by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) despite the fuels already being successfully used in at least one state. A list of pending petitions for renewable fuel pathways can be found here.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted five new Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) fuel pathway applications to the LCFS public comments website: two for biodiesel, one for renewable diesel, and two for ethanol. The baseline CI value for gasoline is 95.86 g CO 2 e/MJ; for diesel fuel, it is 94.71 g CO 2 e/MJ.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2012

The states of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, and South Dakota filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals opposing enforcement of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). Earlier post.). —Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2012

A third party study commissioned by POET has shown that fuel from Project LIBERTY has greenhouse-gas intensity 111% below gasoline. DSM and POET will each hold a 50% share in the joint venture, which will be headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In an analysis of the Renewable Fuel Standard, the US EPA projected 7.8

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Harmonizing fuel programs between state, federal, and foreign jurisdictions is useful to ensure the optimum reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. —Low Carbon Fuel Standard 2011 Program Review Report. For LCA analysis, the model used for calculation (CA-GREET, GHGenius, etc.) Earlier post.).

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Airlines , public transit , and regular commuters are feeling the strain of rising fuel costs, which have increased dramatically since August 2021. In fact, EV sales have doubled in the past year , while, correlational or not, average fuel prices have jumped from an average of $2.94/gallon gallon in April 2021 to $4.21/gallon

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El Paso Electric Vehicles Vehicles South Dakota 84

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2013

The WCSB crudes that would likely be transported through Keystone XL, are on average more GHG-intensive per MJ of produced gasoline than the current crudes they would displace in the United States—between 2% to 19%, depending on the study and the type of crude used as a reference. Source: Draft SEIS. Click to enlarge. —Draft SEIS.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Varying pipeline availability has little impact on the prices that US consumers pay for refined products such as gasoline or for heavy crude demand in the Gulf Coast. If new east-west and cross-border pipelines were both completely constrained, oil sands crude could reach US and Canadian refineries by rail. During operations, approximately 1.44

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 2, 2023

The Tucson, Santa Fe, Elantra and Sonata come as hybrid and/or plug-in hybrids, the Nexo is powered by electricity via a hydrogen fuel cell, and the Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6 are battery electric. Never stopping at a gasoline station is a plus, too. Hyundai gets electricity. If you want to stand out, the Ioniq 6 may be for you.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

This step is a result of EPA challenges with the implementation of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). The RFS was created to solidify US leadership in low-carbon fuels and drive investment and innovation as well as to make the US energy independent.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

If every megawatt of renewable needs a fossil fuel-fired generator in stand-by, then you increase the cost substantially of free resources," he said. The high cost of fuel this past year seriously damaged our economy and society. The cost of fuel effects every facet of consumer goods from production to shipping costs.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Several ethanol producers from Iowa and South Dakota—representing more than one billion gallons of capacity—called on the ethanol community to focus their near term advocacy efforts on fuel efficiency rules that are likely to be a top priority for the incoming Biden Administration.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Chair of the Governor’s Biofuels Coalition, and Republican South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem sent a joint letter to President Trump requesting that he direct the EPA to enforce Section 202 of the Clean Air Act that requires the reduction and elimination of toxic carcinogenic aromatics from gasoline.

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