Biofuel News

A company that runs a pilot cellulosic ethanol plant in northeast Wyoming has won approval to participate in a new federal program that aids development of biofuels.

R. Dominguez-Faus and others analyze the impact of different biofuels on water in the USA in their article in Envir.

U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists and their colleagues have completed a four-year effort to sequence the genome of corn, an achievement expected to speed up development of corn varieties that will help feed the world and meet growing demands for using this important grain crop as a biofuel and animal feed.

The bar has been set high: one-third of the U.S. fuel supply to come from biofuel production and 900 million tons of biofuel stock to come from agriculture.

MYSTERY surrounds the future of a North-East biofuels plant after it emerged its workforce had been sent home indefinitely.

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Congress is considering a climate bill that would set the nation's first-ever mandatory limits on heat-trapping gases in an effort to curb global warming.

WASHINGTON -- How much corn will the United States produce 40 years from now? You might as well guess the Super Bowl winner decades from now.

This image shows the process by which Photosystem I in thermophilic blue-green algae can be catalyzed by platinum to produce a sustainable source of hydrogen.

This image shows the process by which Photosystem I in thermophilic blue-green algae can be catalyzed by platinum to produce a sustainable source of hydrogen.

Canada's biofuels industry will ask the government early in 2010 to expand fuel blending mandates and production incentives, even as plants rapidly boost capacity to meet incoming targets, the president of the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association said on Thursday.

Viro International Corporation , is pleased to report its ongoing commitment to the recently launched social media-driven shareholder communications platform in conjunction with netgenPR, a full service digital PR and communications agency specializing in public companies.

Kansas University researchers are working to turn microbes from treated sewage into a commercially viable biofuel, fluid that one day could be used to power the nation's cars, trucks, airplanes and other modes of transportation.

SOUTH Australia is powering ahead in the race to make jet fuel from microalgae. The $5 million photobioreactor at West Beach is the first of its kind in the Southern hemisphere.

A carbon cap-and-trade system could give a small economic boost to American agriculture, according to a report commissioned by a group promoting renewable energy.While much of mainstream agriculture complains loudly that legislation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions could doom farm profits, the report issued Wednesday by the group 25x25 ...

Controlling carbon emissions to forestall long-term climate change is critical to Michigan's future.

By Chris Morrison Nov 10, 2009 Why do industry heads, policy wonks and the general public focus on turning plants into fuel, rather than other, potentially more lucrative and useful substances? Making biofuels to replace gasoline seems like the intuitive and obvious way to reduce our oil consumption - but appearances can be deceiving.

Washington, D.C. -- The corncob could be losing its special place in the nation's energy future.

Talks are continuing today between the Government and trade union leaders on how to achieve in next month's budget savings of 1.3bn in the public sector pay bill.

Biofuels are divided into biodiesel , and ethanol . The number one source of biodiesel is African palm oil.