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Mote Inc. has received $1.2 million in grant funding from the U.S. Forest Service, the California Department of Conservation, and the California Department of Forestry to establish its second biomass-to-hydrogen and carbon sequestration plant.

Origin Materials Inc. and Proman have announced a strategic partnership centered on low-carbon biofuel production utilizing Origin’s technology platform and Proman’s worldwide fuels capabilities and expertise.

Pertamina, a national energy company in Indonesia, has successfully condcuted static tests on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on CFM56-7B jet engines commonly used in commercial aircraft at GMF Aeroasia's Test Cell facility.

Yield10 Bioscience Inc. has announced positive results in the first field test of stacked herbicide tolerance (HT) traits in camelina. These proprietary stacked HT camelina varieties demonstrate tolerance to herbicides and herbicide soil residues.

Montauk Renewables Inc. has signed an LOI with a North American subsidiary of Denmark–based European Energy to deliver biogenic carbon CO2 from its Texas facilities for use in the production of e-fuels, such as e-methanol.

Doug Haugh, chief commercial officer at Vertex Energy Inc., discussed the company’s efforts to expand the types of feedstocks processed in its renewable diesel unit during the company’s second quarter earnings call, held Aug. 9.

Vision RNG has announced that its landfill gas (LFG) to renewable natural gas (RNG) project at Meridian Waste’s Eagle Ridge Landfill in Bowling Green, Missouri is now fully operational. The project produces 375,000 MMBtu of RNG annually.

The U.S. DOE's Bioenergy Technologies Office awarded $2.18 million in funding to three projects as part of the 2023 Cooperative Research and Development Agreement call by the Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium.

The U.S. exported 865,995.4 metric tons of wood pellets in June, up from both the 820,057.5 metric tons exported the previous month and the 832,092.2 metric tons exported in June 2022, according to data released by the USDA FAS on Aug. 8.

Synthica Energy LLC, a developer of RNG projects, announced on Aug. 7 that it has closed on a large equity investment from the Infrastructure Business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Swedish Biofuels AB announced on Aug. 7 that the ASTM International Committee has accepted the use of C2 to C5 alcohols as feedstock for the alcohol-to-jet pathway as well as a new specification for fully formulated aviation fuel with aromatics.

Shandong Haike Chemical Co. Ltd, a Chinese refining and petrochemical company, has selected Axens’ Vegan technology to produce low-carbon, cost-competitive sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) by retrofitting its existing assets.