Attached is an audio report and sound bites featuring comments from Renewable Fuels Association president and CEO Bob Dinneen about working together with biofuels groups from Canada, Brazil and Europe to provide input to world leaders meeting at this past week’s G8 meeting in Japan. Full Release
Ethanol Industry Shows Strength at Workshop
Attached is an audio report and sound bites featuring comments from Renewable Fuels Association president and CEO Bob Dinneen, BBI International president Mike Bryan, Joel Velasco of the Brazilian Sugar Cane Industry Association, and “Energy Victory” author Robert Zubrin from last week’s 2008 Fuel Ethanol Workshop in Nashville. Full Release
Ethanol Industry Concerns About UN Food Security Conference
Attached is an audio report and sound bites featuring comments from Renewable Fuels Association president and CEO Bob Dinneen about this week’s United Nations Conference on World Food Security. Full Release
Ethanol Industry Fights Back
Attached are an audio report and three sound bites featuring comments from Renewable Fuels Association president and CEO Bob Dinneen about the continued and increased attacks on ethanol by food and oil companies. Full Release
Ethanol Industry Holds Food Price Press Briefing
Attached is an audio report featuring comments from four agriculture and ethanol industry leaders who participated in a press conference on April 30 about the role of biofuels in food price increases. Featured are former Agriculture Secretary John Block, National Corn Growers Association CEO Rick Tolman, National Farmers Union president Tom Buis (buy’-us) and Renewable Fuels Association president and CEO …
EPIC and South Dakota Corn Utilization Council Announce Blender Pump Program
Sioux Falls, SD. (May 1, 2008 – AgNewsWire) – South Dakota is poised to lead the nation in raising public awareness for higher blends of ethanol with a new blender pump initiative announced Thursday. Through a partnership between the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (EPIC) and the South Dakota Corn Utilization Council (SDCUC), the initiative will help gas station retailers …
Ethanol Report – RFA Reacts to Criticisms
Attached is an audio report featuring comments from Renewable Fuels Association President Bob Dinneen on a number of topics coinciding with the annual RFA board of directors meeting in St. Louis this week. He talks about the angst felt by ethanol producers seeing their product maligned in the media and why the Texas governor’s request for a waiver of the …
Make it Ethanol for Earth Day
Omaha, Neb., (April 22, 2008 – AgNewsWire) – If every car in America would use a ten percent blend of ethanol for one week, the amount of greenhouse gases produced in the U.S. would be reduced by nearly 1.3 billion pounds. That is according to calculations done by life sciences researcher Nathan Danielson, president of BioCognito. “What we did was …
Ethanol Industry Getting Greener
Attached is an audio report featuring comments from Renewable Fuels Association President Bob Dinneen on a new report from Argonne National Laboratory about the increased efficiency of U.S. ethanol plants, as well as how higher oil prices are the real cause of food price inflation. Full Release
Green Racing Showcased in St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg, Fla. (April 4, 2008 – AgNewsWire) – St. Petersburg, Florida will be the site of the greenest racing event in history April 5-6 when both the IndyCar Series and the American Le Mans Series will compete on the streets in the Honda Grand Prix and Acura Sports Car Challenge. This is the second year that the IndyCar Series …
Ethanol Leaders Talk About Future
Attached is an audio report featuring comments from four ethanol industry leaders about the future of the ethanol industry and what role the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) will play in it. Audio sound bites are included from RFA Vice Chairman Tom Branhan of Glacial Lakes Energy in Watertown, South Dakota; Renewable Fuels Foundation chairman Bill Lee with Chippewa Valley Ethanol …
Highlights from the National Ethanol Conference
Attached is an audio report featuring comments from presenters at the 13th annual National Ethanol Conference last month in Orlando. Audio sound bites are included from Renewable Fuels Association president Bob Dinneen, National Corn Growers Association CEO Rick Tolman, Informa Economics CEO Bruce Scherr, and Assistant Energy Secretary Andy Karsner. Full Release
EPIC Hires New Executive Director
Omaha, Neb. (March 4, 2008 – AgNewsWire) – The Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (EPIC) has a new executive director. She is Toni Nuernberg, who comes to EPIC from ACA International in Minneapolis where she worked for 29 years, the last 12 as Chief Operating Officer of ACA International Holding Company Inc. and its for-profit subsidiaries. Nuernberg says when she …
Audio Interview With RFA Chairman
Attached is an audio interview with Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) Chairman Chris Standlee, executive vice president of Abengoa Bioenergy. Standlee discusses developments in cellulosic ethanol, disputes with the recent “Science” article studies and the upcoming 13th annual National Ethanol Conference in Orlando, February 25-27. Full Release
EPIC Responds to Record Oil Prices
Omaha, NE – January 2, 2008 (AgNewsWire) – While ethanol detractors continue to spend millions mounting a smear campaign against alternative fuels, consumers bear the brunt of the economic pain as oil prices trade above the $100.00 a barrel mark. Record oil prices translate into record profits for the petroleum industry. The impact upon the economy is being felt in …