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Biofuel heavyweights collect at public conference in Kansas to talk about EPA’s RFS proposals

Plantations International Agarwood Gaharu News Biofuels heavyweights attended a public meeting to review the United States' Epa's (EPA) propositions to change the Sustainable Gas Requirement (RFS) in Kansas, US. EPA's recent proposition calls on refiners to blend 14.8 billion gallons of conventional biofuels in 2017, a little below the 15-billion-gallon degree envisioned by the US Congress when it broadened the RFS in 2007. Officials from the United States EPA heard comments from more than 100 participants on their prepare for just how much ethanol and also various other renewable gas should be combined right into motor gasoline as well as diesel [...]

5 things I didn’t find out about growing coffee

Plantations International Information Photo: Aulia Erlangga/CIFOR This post was written by a social reporter. It has not been modified by the Online forum organisers or partners, as well as represents the opinion of the specific author only. Think of a room full of coffee experts and a greatly caffeinated Social Reporter, depending on the brew yet without much background on just how it travels from cherry to mug. That was the setting of the session I participated in at the 2015 International Landscapes Discussion forum. To disperse the word I'm sharing my major takeaways-- the kind that typically aren't served in [...]