Current：Home > NewsA biodiesel boom (and conundrum) -FutureFinance
A biodiesel boom (and conundrum)
PredictIQ Quantitative Think Tank Center View
Date：2025-04-08 16:54:56
There's a biodiesel boom happening! It's fueled by incentives and policies intended to cut greenhouse emissions, and is motivating some oil companies like World Energy in Paramount, California to convert their refineries to process soybean oil instead of crude. NPR's food and agriculture correspondent Dan Charles explains why farmers are happy, bakers are frustrated and people who want to preserve the world's natural forests are worried.
Email the show at [email protected].
This episode was produced by Brit Hanson, edited by Sara Sarasohn, and fact-checked by Rasha Aridi and Margaret Cirino. Leo Del Aguila provided engineering help.
veryGood！ (627)
Related
- Selena Gomez's "Weird Uncles" Steve Martin and Martin Short React to Her Engagement
- Shooter attack in Belgium drives an EU push to toughen border and deportation laws
- X, formerly Twitter, tests charging new users $1 a year to use basic features
- Peru imposes harsh penalties for stealing cellphones, including life in prison
- Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow owns a $3 million Batmobile Tumbler
- So-called toddler milks are unregulated and unnecessary, a major pediatrician group says
- Israel-Hamas war fuels anger and protests across the Middle East amid fears of a wider conflict
- Ukraine’s parliament advances bill seen as targeting Orthodox church with historic ties to Moscow
- What to watch: O Jolie night
- Kansas is poised to boost legislators’ pay by $28,000 in 2025, nearly doubling it
Ranking
- A South Texas lawmaker’s 15
- Cherelle Griner Honors Wife Brittney Griner in Birthday Tribute Nearly a Year After Captivity Release
- The Rolling Stones say making music is no different than it was decades ago: We just let it rock on
- $249M in federal grid money for Georgia will boost electric transmission and battery storage
- Paula Abdul settles lawsuit with former 'So You Think You Can Dance' co
- 3 endangered sawfish born at SeaWorld – the first successful captive birth of the species in the U.S.
- Don't call Lions' Jared Goff a game manager. Call him one of NFL's best QBs.
- More PGA Tour players will jump to LIV Golf for 2024 season, Phil Mickelson says
Recommendation
'As foretold in the prophecy': Elon Musk and internet react as Tesla stock hits $420 all
Japan and Australia agree to further step up defense cooperation under 2-month-old security pact
Michael Penix headlines the USA TODAY Sports midseason college football All-America team
Workers at Mexico’s federal courts kick off 4-day strike over president’s planned budget cuts
Sam Taylor
Tropical Storm Tammy is forecast to bring heavy rain to the Caribbean this weekend
2 San Antonio police officers shot and wounded during domestic disturbance call; suspect surrenders
Week 8 college football expert picks: Top 25 game predictions led by Ohio State-Penn State