by Charles Winokoor (Tauton Daily Gazette)  The city’s plans for what would be a landmark ethanol-based waste treatment plant cleared an important hurdle at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting.
The Council and its Committee on Solid …

Companies would evaluate non-food Indian feedstocks for the production of green diesel and green jet fuels as well as the development of renewable power applications from biomass waste.

UOP, a Honeywell company, announced March 31, 2010, …

National Algae Association is pleased to announce that construction has been completed on a commercial-scale photobioreactor (PBR) demo located at Lone Star College in The Woodlands, Texas. “Thanks to donations of materials, time and effort …

A new study by the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies at Rochester Institute of Technology indicates that the use of E20 fuel, which blends 20 percent ethanol with gasoline, reduces the tail pipe emissions of …

by Richard Johnson (GlobeGazette.com)  …Mt. Valley will use all types of feed stock — grease, soy, sunflower seeds — in a closed-loop, emissions-free facility.
It will be able to produce 3 million gallons of biodiesel fuel …

by Leah Beth Ward (YakimaHerald.com)  The parent company of the AB Foods-Washington Beef processing plant in Toppenish has won $2 million in grants and loans to create a biofuels company that will transform waste into …

by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com) …Both the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA) filed the lawsuit Monday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia challenging …

(Popular Science) …But a collaboration of Korean and Californian researchers wanted to take raw electricity directly from algae themselves by harvesting electrons.
Using the common Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as a test subject, the researchers applied what’s known …

(Physorg.com)  Using genetic sleight of hand, researcher Xinyao Liu and professor Roy Curtiss at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute have coaxed photosynthetic microbes to secrete oil—bypassing energy and cost barriers that have hampered green biofuel …

by Samuel King, Jr. (Air Force Material Command)  Air Force officials, embracing the national priorities of cleaner fuel and energy independence, took a step toward a greener, energy independent future when an A-10C Thunderbolt II …

(YahooNews, ANI) A revolutionary new technology that produces a key tire ingredient from renewable feedstocks rather than petroleum-derived feedstocks will enable motorists to drive on the world’s first “green” tires within the next five years.
The …

by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com)  An Iowa inventor and entrepreneur is promoting a harvester he developed that can produce ethanol from sweet sorghum right in the field.
Lee McClune of Knoxville, Iowa invented the SORGANOL® Process (PatPend) …

by Mikkel Pates (AgWeek)  For Orrie Swayze, all roads eventually lead to ethanol.
They have for a long time.
As the still-young ethanol fuel industry returns to profitability in the wake of the financial crisis in the …

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $2.38 million to 34 small businesses to develop innovative, sustainable technologies to protect human health and the environment. These efforts will help improve air quality, protect our …

With the theme of “Innovation and Application”, this year’s conference will focus on more than twenty areas of green chemistry and green engineering including:

Biofuels

Environmental health sciences

Biomimicry

International activities

Education

Pharmaceuticals

Energy

Sustainable design concepts

Entrepreneurship

Supply chain management

 
On Monday evening, June 21, …

March 29, 2010, Congressman Leonard Boswell (D-IA) and Congressman Lee Terry (R-NE) held a news conference to highlight a bipartisan effort to boost our country’s homegrown energy industry by improving infrastructure for moving ethanol from …

General Motors Co.  announced on March 30, 2010, a five-year partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to help develop the potential of the jatropha plant as a sustainable biofuel energy crop.  Traditionally considered …

by Karen Lovett (Nashua Telegraph)  …Closer to home, the Merrimack Biodiesel Crew has also been experimenting with algae, growing different types in flasks on a science lab windowsill.
Now, the crew hopes to expand its operation …

by Michelle Kautz  (DomesticFuel.com)  According to the Associated Press, the Ohio Turnpike Commission has announced plans to open up two “green” rest areas, powered by renewable energy such as wind or solar power and they …

by Mackinnon Lawrence (Biofuels Digest)  …Genomics research can be applied to energy crops to select for sequencing based on relevance to the DOE missions.  Projects focus on one of three key aspects: the development of …

(American Le Mans Series)  G-Oil’s Green Earth Team Gunnar made history and an unprecedented run in the season-opening round of the 2010 American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón at Sebring International Raceway over …

The Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA) March 21, 2010, released its 2010 production forecast for ethanol and the future continues to look positive for growth in the industry.
Total fuel ethanol production for 2009 was 73.9 billion litres …

(Green Car Congress)  A group of US and Canadian power grid operators, who manage most of the North American bulk electric grid collectively, studied the effect that plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) would have on the …

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com)  …The easiest way to gain the improved fuel economy is through “engine downsizing,” in other words, using smaller engines. But the new smaller engine technologies will not mean less power, like …

“Advanced Biofuels: Your Guide to Sustainable Energy Sources” was published on March 31, 2010, by MediaPlanet as a supplement to the Capitol Hill editions of the Washington Post and will be distributed at coming advanced biofuels …