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Jonathan Rhone, president and CEO of Nexterra Energy Corp., in the company offices overlooking downtown Vancouver from the Scotia Tower on West Georgia Street.

The tour ended in a century-old building stuffed with gauges, heat-exchangers, compressors, catalytic reactors, motors, and at least one large engine purchased on eBay then reconditioned.

New Mexico Congressman Harry Teague was on his Energy Independence Tour and stopped by New Mexico State University Friday.

Somewhere among the beakers and the bubbling green-tinged tanks in this Utah State University lab, Jeff Muhs is searching for champion pond scum for Uncle Sam.If he and others like him around the country are successful, algae-based biofuel could one day power one of the world's biggest gas guzzlers: the U.S. military.Heady stuff for a simple ...

It can be tricky sometimes to be both an aviator and an environmentalist, but it's getting easier all the time.

In 2008, the steady rise in ethanol consumption reduced U.S. demand for motor gasoline by an estimated 5 percent and accounted for 20 percent of the increase in domestic corn prices, according to a new assessment of U.S. biofuels by the Worldwatch Institute.

Congress is eyeing ways to make sure speculative trading helps commodity markets rather than distorting pricing signals, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a Reuters Television interview Monday.

Tanks could be filled with home-grown fuels, but imported soybeans and palm oil could be banned under proposed new biofuel rules.

STRASBURG, Pa. - The Strasburg Rail Road is going green and expanding its freight operation at the same time.

After robust debate Friday, June 26, the House of Representatives passed cap and trade legislation by a narrow margin, 219 to 212.

What some see as the biofuel of the future starts out as short, thick stems with a few leaves sticking out at sharp angles.

ABSTRACT: Democratic leaders in the House have scheduled a Friday vote on a climate change bill that would establish a complex cap-and-trade system to limit the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, a priority for President Obama.

The reinvention of Maine s Old Town Fuel & Fiber mill is drawing interest as a potential model for a new wave of biofuel companies that seek to cut our dependence on oil By Jason Szep REUTERS, OLD TOWN, MAINE Sunday, Jun 28, 2009, Page 12 Digest operator Bruce Theriault watches over the process at the Old Town Fuel and Fiber mill in Old Town, ...

A new report focuses on the challenge of how to sustainably meet the growing energy and food demands of a global population approaching nine billion people in 2050.

A patch of yellow near the Neuse River southeast of Raleigh could make the city more green.

At the grand opening of GreenHunter's biodiesel plant in Houston a year ago, U.S. Rep.

Canadian farmers oppose the introduction of genetically modified wheat until market conditions change, a Canadian Wheat Board survey has found.

From the outside, the rustic red-brick mill on a bend in Maine's Penobscot River resembles any other struggling American pulp and paper mill.

What some see as the biofuel of the future starts out as short, thick stems with a few leaves sticking out at sharp angles.

Go ahead and take a deep breath of exhaust from Giff Foster's farm tractor. Smells like ... stale doughnuts? Kind of.