by Leticia Phillips | Mar 11, 2014 | Sem categoria
In response to proposed updates to the California Air Resources Board’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard, Leticia Phillips, North America Representative for the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (known by the acronym “UNICA”), issued the following statement: ...
by Géraldine Kutas | Feb 21, 2014 | Sem categoria
The annual EU-Brazil summit will take place next week here in the European Union capital, Brussels. There will be plenty of bonhomie as these summits go. We can reasonably expect trade to be one of the most important items of the political agenda, alongside other...
by Leticia Phillips | Jan 29, 2014 | Sem categoria
Brazil’s sugarcane ethanol producers submitted formal comments to the EPA Tuesday that expressed the industry’s serious concerns about the agency’s proposed standards for the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). UNICA’s (The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry...
by Géraldine Kutas | Jan 22, 2014 | Sem categoria
Apparently, the current European Commission’s long term strategy is now formally not to have one. On Wednesday, this Commission formally mapped out, in the first step in a long legislative process ahead, its much awaited perspective on what it thinks the European...
by Leticia Phillips | Jun 15, 2013 | Sem categoria
Brazilian sugarcane ethanol has become an important component of America’s advanced biofuels supply. But language tucked away in a proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rulemaking could effectively end U.S. access to this clean renewable fuel. Sugarcane...