Fears that fraudulent biodiesel from China is flooding into the EU is exposing broader problems with the biofuel industry.
At first, Deyan Stankov thought the fraud was so blatant that no one would believe it.
From his office in Ruse, a small Bulgarian city on the bank of the Danube River, Stankov was tracking biodiesel exports from China to Europe as they surged to unprecedented levels. It started in the fall of 2022, and by January, monthly exports hit a peak of over 250,000 metric tons, a level never seen before and nearly double the trade just a year before, according to data from London-based Quantum C
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