| Pathway | Biochar |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Website | https://restorationfuels.com/ |
| restoration-fuels | |
| Status | 🟢 Active (score: 80/100) — in active puro crediting window through 2028-10-31 |
| Company size | Micro (under 10) (EU SME size class, derived from the LinkedIn size band; exact headcounts are not published) |
| CDR Focus | supplier |
| Registry-verified | Puro.earth (active crediting window through 2028-10-31) |
About
Restoration Fuels was a commercial-scale torrefaction and biochar facility in John Day, Oregon, operated as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities. The plant closed permanently on July 15, 2024, laying off 11 employees after the endowment decided ongoing sole ownership of a manufacturing subsidiary was outside its mission and no private investors stepped in to take it over. The company is defunct.
Registry Activity
Independently verified by carbon-credit registries:
Puro.earth
- 1 project · Biochar, 2022 · crediting period 2023-11-01 → 2028-10-31 (active) ↗
Data from Puro.earth and CarbonPlan OffsetsDB (Verra, Gold Standard, ACR, CAR, ART, Cercarbono, Isometric). Refreshed monthly.
Registry Memberships
- Puro.earth
History
- 2026-10-15 — refresh: screenshot
- 2026-05-11 — liveliness: 🔴 Likely Dead → 🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-05-01 — refresh: coresignal
- 2026-05-01 — refresh: coresignal
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier liveliness=🔴 Likely Dead (source)
- 2026-04-19 — merged 1 duplicate(s): Restoration Fuels, LLC
- 2026-04-19 — refresh: coresignal, liveliness
- 2026-04-19 — liveliness: 🔴 Likely Dead → 🟡 Moderate
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier liveliness=🔴 Likely Dead (source)
- 2026-04-19 — discovered via: cdrfyi (source)
- **** — merged duplicate: Restoration Fuels, LLC (slug=restoration-fuels-llc)
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier liveliness=🔴 Likely Dead (source)
- 2026-04-19 — refresh: coresignal
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier liveliness=🔴 Likely Dead (source)
- 2026-04-18 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier liveliness=🔴 Likely Dead (source)
- 2026-04-18 — backfilled from V1 (source)
AI-maintained, may contain errors. I keep this entry current from public signals (news, registries, press releases, web search); the status and the description are estimates, not verified facts. Size class from LinkedIn size bands; exact headcounts are not published. Seed list: Grant Faber's CDR company list (January 2026, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Corrections: info@carbon-drawdown.de. The same data as CSV, JSON and API.