Checkoff disputes EU’s calculation of soy biodiesel’s sustainability

Two years’ worth of attempts by the soybean checkoff to convince Europeans of the sustainability of biodiesel made from US soybean oil recently culminated in several “frustrating” meetings in Brussels between United Soybean Board (USB) Chairman Marc Curtis and several European Union (EU) officials.

Under the EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED), biodiesel made from U.S. soybean oil fails to meet the directive’s minimum greenhouse gas (GHG) emission-reduction threshold, despite a checkoff-funded study that proves otherwise. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine from Perendale Publishers.