The United States' Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently acknowledged that, despite generous levels of taxpayer funding, cellulosic ethanol was not scaling up as quickly as they had hoped. So they reduced the 2010 cellulosic ethanol mandate from 100 million gallons to 6.5 million gallons. The basis for their decision was contained in a published update to the Renewable Fuel Standards Program.

In 2004 the U.S. Congress created a USD$ 1/gallon (US$ 0.264/litre) blenders' tax credit for biodiesel that was slated to expire in 2006. But in 2005 it extended the tax credit through the end of 2008 and, before that year was up, extended it again, through 2009.

BANGKOK - 23-24 July 2009 - In partnership with the Southeast Asia bureau of the Inter Press Service, the GSI held its fifth media forum, bringing together 13 journalists from across the region and a variety of energy and climate change experts. The forum featured an ambitious agenda that centered on energy and climate change policies in South East Asia. The second day was dedicated to developing creative journalistic articles on related themes.

Lobbists everywhere have a reputation for accentuating the positive and downplaying the negative. That is what they are paid for. But the main industry association representing subsidized U.S. ethanol producers, the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA), often exceeds the industry standard in expressing its exuberance for the benefits that its members'product-corn-based ethanol-has for the U.S. economy.