Jeff Barber
Jeff has more than 30 years of experience as an energy journalist. He began his career as a government editor with Fairchild Publications in Washington, before moving to Platts, where he held a variety of positions and reported on a range of subjects, including state and federal energy and environmental policy, Congress, and electricity and natural gas markets. He graduated from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, where he majored in History and English.
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Biofuels, Renewables, RINs
Biofuels industry hopes its efforts to cut GHG emissions will keep it relevant as White House pushes EVs
After four years of the Trump administration’s often-chaotic approach to the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), many in the biofuels industry...
Carbon, Renewables, RINs
Could the RFS Move Toward a Low Carbon Program Like LCFS?
The idea of revising the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) to operate more like the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) appears to...
Electric Vehicles, Gas & Diesel, Renewables, Spot Market
Strange Bedfellows? Biofuel Producers and Refiners Find Common Foe
Could the ancient proverb “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” point the way toward a rapprochement between U.S....