Ethanol Production Slips & New EPA Rules
Ethanol Production Slips & New EPA Rules plus Food Forethought. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.
It’s interesting that we began the year talking about Cap & Trade and we end the year talking about Clear Air. EPA Assistant Administrator Gina McCarthy discusses new Clear Air Act rules to reduce greenhouse gas pollution pertaining to utilities and refineries.
McCARTHY: For oil and coal utilities the timing is that we’ve agreed to propose regulations by July 26, 2011 with final regulations by May 26, 2012. For refineries the timing is we’ll propose regulations by December 15, 2011 as well as final regulations by November 15, 2012.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration’ weekly ethanol production numbers fell back to Earth after unexpectedly high production estimates in the first two weekly reports of December. According to EIA data, daily average ethanol production for the week ending December 17, 2010 was 892-thousand barrels per day. That’s down nearly 5 percent from the previous week. This production rate implies 13.67-billion gallons of production on an annualized basis. Stocks for ethanol increased slightly to 16.8-million barrels, up from 16.7-million.
Now with today’s Food Forethought, here’s Lacy Gray.
No doubt about it, once you decide to start recycling you want to recycle anything and everything you can. The National Resources Defense Council states “Recycling is one of the most feel good and useful environmental practices around”. If you haven’t already began recycling what better time to start than now, after the Christmas holiday. That mountain of wrapping paper, boxes, and tags is a great place to start. What you can’t reuse for next gift giving season can go in the recycle bin. If you’re fortunate, as we are in our little burg, you have a curbside recycling service through your waste removal company. If not, more than likely there’s a recycling bin station nearby. When recycling first started people had to separate and sort their recyclables, now advances in technology have created single stream recycling; you don’t have to waste time sorting, just toss them all in one bin. This new convenient ease in recycling has resulted in recycling rates going up by more than thirty percent. Remember, recycling doesn’t have to be just about paper, plastic, glass and cans anymore, share your unwanted furniture, books, electronics, toys and clothing with local charities. The giving shouldn’t stop with the holidays.
Thanks Lacy. That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.
