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Shift Fossil Fuel Subsidies to Back Clean Tech-IEA

by Nina Chestney   (Reuters)  Fossil fuel subsidies worth $312 billion should be realigned to ensure the growth of renewable energy and curb the world's reliance on carbon-intensive fuels, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a report. Demand for fossil fuels

April 11, 2011 Read Full Article

USDA Changes Corn Wording after Ethanol Makers Complain

by Charles Abbott and Christopher Doering (Reuters)  The government introduced new wording on corn use on Friday following complaints from ethanol makers that they were not getting credit for the corn byproducts that are fed to livestock. Instead of saying "corn for ethanol"

April 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Boeing, Yale University Conduct Jatropha Sustainability Study

by Bryan Sims (Biodiesel Magazine)  Boeing issued research conducted by Yale University’s School of Environmental Studies that showed significant potential for jatropha-based aviation fuel. The study showed that, if cultivated properly, jatropha could deliver strong environmental and socioeconomic benefits in

April 08, 2011 Read Full Article

POET Corn Oil to Supply up to 60 Million Gallons Biodiesel Production Annually

by POET (Renewable Energy World)  "Voilà™" corn oil separated using POET centrifuge technology Planned expansion of corn oil production to all of POET's ethanol plants will produce enough raw material for up to 60 million gallons of biodiesel. POET is now selling Voilà™

April 08, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels and Biofuel Research beyond Ethanol is Crucial to Developing Alternative Sustainable Energy Resources

(KQED/Quest/Planet Forward)  For years there’s been buzz — both positive and negative — about generating ethanol fuel from corn. The Bay Area is rapidly becoming a world center for the next generation of green fuel alternatives. Meet the scientists investigating

April 07, 2011 Read Full Article

Food vs Fuel: Are Biofuels Moral or Immoral?

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  The public says “depends on the feedstock,” but generally more moral than converting land for oil & gas or housing. An in-depth Digest survey looks at a wide variety of cases. In Florida, respondents to a

April 07, 2011 Read Full Article

Indirect Fuel Use Change (IFUC) and the Lifecycle Environmental Impact of Biofuel Policies

by Deepak Rajagopal, G. Hochman, and D. Zilberman (Science Direct)  A common assumption in lifecycle assessment (LCA) based estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits (or costs) of renewable fuel such as biofuel is that it simply replaces an energy-equivalent amount of

April 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Indirect Land Use Change: A Second-Best Solution to a First-Class Problem

by David Zilberman, Gal Hochman, and Deepak Rajagopal  (AgBioForum)  Concern about the possible effects of biofuels on deforestation have led to assigning biofuel producers with the responsibility for the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the indirect land-use changes (ILUC) associated

April 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Are Genetically Modified Algae a Threat?

by Stephen Lacey (Renewable Energy World)  No one knows. And that's what scares some people. ...Tom Allnut, the senior vice president of R&D at the algae start-up Phycal, believes some of the concerns about engineered algae are valid. Given that algae are

April 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol: Pros, Cons Fuel Debate over Its Worth

by Tyler Ellyson  (Columbus Telegram)   Robeson, general manager of Frontier Co-op in Brainard, considers the corn-based fuel to be the crutch that the Midwest and Nebraska economies leaned on during the recent recession — keeping our heads above water while

April 04, 2011 Read Full Article

Experts: Farmers not to Blame for High Food Prices

by Michael J. Crumb  (Associated Press/Forbes)  ...Now, they're concerned again as corn prices rose even higher last week following an announcement that U.S. farmers are planting the second largest corn crop since 1944, but it won't be enough to meet

April 04, 2011 Read Full Article

More Psuedo-Science and the Preposterous Claims of Anti-Ethanol Activists

by Geoff Cooper (Renewable Fuels Association)  A new pseudo-analysis published by the controversial and discredited Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons claims that biofuels expansion is increasing hunger and poverty-related health risks in developing nations. The four-page article was written by

March 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Dakota Spirit AgEnergy Biorefinery Evolves into Hybrid Concept Based on Study Results

(Dakota Spirit AgEnergy)   Dakota Spirit AgEnergy, a proposed cellulosic biorefinery near Spiritwood, N.D., has evolved from a 20 million gallon per year (MGY) cellulosic ethanol plant into a 58 MGY “hybrid” ethanol plant comprised of a 50 MGY dry mill ethanol

March 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Food and Fuel Debate Important to All Ethanol

by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association/Biofuels Digest)   ...This faux debate is as important to future ethanol producers as it is to existing ethanol producers. And those looking to capitalize on starch-based ethanol’s public relations struggles need to be cognizant

March 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Rising Food Prices? Can't Blame Ethanol

by John Block (Chicago Tribune)  With food prices rising worldwide, some self-styled authorities on agriculture are claiming that producing ethanol in the Midwest causes food riots in the Middle East. Their story is simple: Biofuels are gobbling up the grains that

March 29, 2011 Read Full Article

S.Africa's Illovo Says May Opt to Produce Biofuels

by Ruona Agbroko   (Reuters Africa)    South Africa's Illovo Sugar may opt to produce biofuel from sugarcane if it makes commercial sense, its managing director said late on Wednesday. South Africa's Department of Energy said earlier this month it would make

March 29, 2011 Read Full Article

A.I.M. Interview: USDA's Dr. Rick Barrows

by David Schwartz (Algae Industry Magazine)    ...Fishmeal is a major source of protein and oil in the fish diet, and is also used heavily in pet foods, as well as for swine and poultry feed. Looking to address the

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Argonne Creating Life Cycle Analysis Tools for Algal Biofuels

(Algae Industry Magazine)   ...The objectives of the (Argonne National Laboratories) Algae LCA project include: Assemble a life cycle inventory for algal biofuels Implement an algae life cycle analysis (LCA) Enable and stimulate additional LCA communications The methods chosen to accomplish those objectives are: To

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Focus on Cost and Sustainability Issues as Aviation and Biofuel Sectors Meet Face to Face in Rotterdam

(GreenAirOnline)  Sustainability and economics dominated debate at last week’s World Biofuels Market (WBM) event in Rotterdam as airlines gathered to make the case for aviation biofuels commercialisation to a wider biofuels industry audience. In a keynote speech, KLM Managing Director

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Systematic Use of Fertilizers Can Save Forests, Fight Climate Change

(IITA)  As the world grapples with the challenge of feeding an ever growing population in the face of dwindling natural resources confounded by climate change, findings from a recent research by IITA show that science-based farming methods integrating the systematic

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Soybean Growers Seeing Positive Results from Biodiesel

(Southeast Farm Press/United Soybean Board)  An updated, independent study funded by the United Soybean Board (USB) and soybean checkoff shows production of biodiesel continues to positively impact U.S. soybean farmers’ on-farm profitability, as well as the bottom lines of U.S.

March 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Update from the International Sustainability & Carbon Certification Association

(Task 39)    Around 140 guests followed the invitation of ISCC to the first General Assembly and discussed the status quo and development of sustainability certification with speakers like Ron van Erck from the European Commission and Dr. Hans-Jürgen Froese

March 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuel Policy Causing Starvation: Nestle Boss

by Stephen Foley (New Zealand Herald)  Soaring food inflation is the result of "immoral" policies in the United States which divert crops for use in the production of biofuels instead of food, according to the chairman of one of the

March 25, 2011 Read Full Article

How to Avoid a Global Food Price Crisis

by Tom Vilsack (Financial Times/US Department of Agriculture)  Recent news stories have stoked fears about rising global food prices. But today, only a few years after a devastating food crisis, we can avoid the mistakes of 2007 and 2008 and respond

March 24, 2011 Read Full Article

An Interview with General Wesley Clark

(Novozymes)  General Wesley Clark: retired US Army general, 2004 Democratic Party presidential candidate, and now Co-Chairman of Growth Energy, an ethanol lobbying group. A lot of people, when they think of biofuels – ethanol – have a picture of good grain

March 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Jatropha Biofuels More Harmful than Oil

by Ricardo Sequeiros Coelho   (CoolTheEarth)  A report by ActionAid, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Nature Kenya revealed that using biofuels from jatropha results in more greenhouse gas emissions than using oil (PDF). More specifically, taking into

March 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol to Reduce GHGs by 105 Million Tonnes in 2011 Forecasted Reductions Will Offset the Emissions of 19.4 Million Cars

(Global Renewable Fuels Alliance)  As the biofuels industry gathers at the annual World Biofuels Markets conference, the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA) is highlighting the positive influence ethanol production is having on reducing global Green House Gas emissions. (S&T)2 Consultants Inc.,

March 23, 2011 Read Full Article

Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels Launches Third-Party Sustainable Biofuels Certification System

(Biofuels Journal/National Wildlife Federation)  The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) launched March 22 the first global third-party certification system for sustainable biofuels. The RSB Certification System includes environmental, social and economic principles and criteria and features a unique set of online tools

March 23, 2011 Read Full Article

State of Wisconsin Issues Air Permit for United Ethanol

by Maureen White  (Eisenmann Corporation/Renewable Energy World)  The Air Permit was recently approved by the State of Wisconsin for United Ethanol to begin construction of the EISENMANN BIOGAS-TS Anaerobic Digester. The $6.75 million project will install an anaerobic digester and

March 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Boeing And EPFL Join Forces To Lower Sustainability Certification Costs

(DailyMarkets/PR Newswire)  Boeing  and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) today announced the creation of the Sustainable Biomass Consortium, a research initiative focused on increasing collaboration between voluntary standards and regulatory requirements for biomass used to create jet fuel and

March 22, 2011 Read Full Article

American Soybean Association Expresses Concerns about EU Renewable Energy Directive to USDA and USTR

(American Soybean Association)  The American Soybean Association (ASA), joined by other U.S. oilseed producer and industry organizations, has expressed serious concerns to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ron Kirk about the requirements

March 21, 2011 Read Full Article

Who Gets Your Food Dollar?

by Matt Hartwig (Renewable Fuels Association)  ...As a result, many in the industrial meat sector, along with junk food processers and other food manufacturers are once again seeking to blame ethanol for the spike in corn prices and the subsequent

March 18, 2011 Read Full Article

California Should Promote the Use of Diesel and Biodiesel-Powered Vehicles

(Diesel Technology Forum)  An interesting White Paper by Serj Berelson concludes that the State of California would benefit from implementing new policies to promote the use of diesel and biodiesel-powered vehicles to assist California’s goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions

March 17, 2011 Read Full Article

A Flock of Speculation: How Paper Bushels, Not Ethanol, Are Driving Corn Prices

by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association)  ...If you needed any more proof that large speculative investors are toying with the agricultural commodities markets and causing wild volatility, you need look no further than the erratic behavior of the corn market

March 17, 2011 Read Full Article

US Oilseed Growers Protest EU Biofuel Requirement

by John Davis (DomesticFuel.com)   Oilseed growers, led by the American Soybean Association (ASA), have raised concerns with U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ron Kirk over the European Union’s (EU) Renewable Energy

March 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Swazi Biofuels Strategy Complete, Awaiting Cabinet Approval

by Winile Mavuso  (The Swazi Observer)  ...Director of Energy Henry Shongwe said the document was basically a policy which would guide companies which want to venture into the bio fuels industry. Such companies include among others; D1 Oils and others. 

March 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Delay to Certification of Aviation Jet Biofuels May Damage Investor Confidence, Claims Lufthansa

(GreenAirOnline)  The approval of Bio-SPK jet fuels for use in commercial aircraft operations is not now expected until the middle of the year at earliest and could possibly be delayed until the end of 2011, says the FAA representative on

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Action Required Now if Alternative Aviation Fuels Are to Help Meet Emissions Targets, Concludes Major European Study

(GreenAirOnline)  The transfer from fossil fuels to biofuels is a must if the air transport industry is to survive beyond the middle of century, was the stark message from Dirk van Vreckem of the European Commission’s mobility and transport directorate

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Sustainability and the Environment I: Uncertainty in Indirect Land Use Change in the Life Cycle of Biofuels: Impacts for Legislation

by Adam J. Liska (Department of Biological Systems Engineering at University of Nebraska-Lincoln)   Liska opens his presentation with the formerly impending climate change legislation H.R. 2454, and states that the act would have done away with the inclusion of

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Sustainability and the Environment I: Bioenergy & Climate: the Long, Medium, and Short of It

by Nathanael Greene (Natural Resources Defense Council Representative)   Greene begins by making the point that “long-term environmental imperatives” need to be applied at a global level, and that bioenergy must be an integral part of a sustainable future. Bioenergy needs to

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Letter to Editor: Ethanol Helps Stabilize Energy Prices

by Matt Hartwig (Renewable Fuels Association/Baltimore Sun)  The Sun may have cut back its foreign bureaus, but your editorial writers ("End subsidies for corn-based ethanol," March 14) must still be aware of the turmoil in North Africa and the Middle

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels Only Major Way to Decarbonise Road Fuel - BP

by Nigel Hunt  (Reuters)   Biofuels represent the only way to significantly reduce carbon emissions in road transport fuel and are likely to account for at least 12 percent of supply by 2030, an official with oil giant BP  said on Wednesday. "There

March 15, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuel, Economics, and Society: An Interview with Daniel De La Torre Ugarte

(ActionBioScience)  ...If we improve the agricultural system, can biofuels become sustainable? Ugarte: Definitely. I think that it is important to understand that biofuels do not have to be the goal of production, but rather, a means to a goal. An important

March 15, 2011 Read Full Article

Mission NewEnergy Limited Announces Asia’s First Fully Integrated Sustainability & Carbon Certified Palm Biodiesel Supply Chain

(Daily Markets/PRNewswire)  Multi-Media Enterprises is reporting that Mission NewEnergy Limited has announced the establishment of Asia’s first fully integrated Sustainability & Carbon Certified palm biodiesel supply chain. The announcement was made in Australia in the following news release: Mission NewEnergy Limited

March 15, 2011 Read Full Article

The Need for Alternative Fuel: When Biofuels and Genetic Engineering Meet

by Alexander Kunev (The McGill Daily)  ...However, getting rid of a system of distribution that encompasses a large network of filling stations and refineries is far from the most efficient way to ensure that more vehicles will be powered by

March 14, 2011 Read Full Article

Cheap Food, Elevated Oil Prices Don't Mix

By Kevin Hursh (Postmedia News/Montreal Gazette) ...The ethanol industry, particularly in the U.S., is a prime target of those who worry about food prices. About 37 per cent of the American corn crop goes to making ethanol. Cancelling the ethanol incentives

March 14, 2011 Read Full Article

National Security Interests Require Tax Incentives for Biofuels and Advanced Biofuels

by Robert E. Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA)  With the oil industry, a 150-year old mature enterprise, still receiving at least 2.5 times the subsidies of the renewable fuel industry ($72 billion 2002-2008, Environmental Law Institute 2009 study), it is disingenuous

March 14, 2011 Read Full Article

Maize Farmers Lobby to Supply Biofuel Industry

by Stephanie Nieuwoudt  (Interpress Service News Agency)  South African maize farmers are pushing hard to change a government decision to exclude their crops as feedstock for bioethanol, in view of food security concerns. Shortly after the government unveiled its biofuel strategy last

March 14, 2011 Read Full Article

Solutions from the Land Initiative to Address Food Security, Economic Development, Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change

(Solutions from the Land)  Sustainable solutions to the challenges of food and energy security, economic development, biodiversity conservation and climate change are the goals of a coalition of resource organizations that was formally announced February 15, 2011. The Solutions from

March 13, 2011 Read Full Article

Biomass to Biofuels March 25-April 30 Burlington, VT

Course Description: Depleting fossil fuel reserves and adverse affects of fluctuating oil prices have renewed interest in alternative and sustainable sources of energy. The University of Vermont is actively involved in this area through research and instruction. Experts in following

March 13, 2011 Read Full Article

ACE says Ethanol Better Solution than Tapping into Oil Reserves

(American Coalition for Ethanol/Ethanol Producer Magazine)  With oil prices now in triple digits and gas prices averaging 75 cents higher than last year, some are calling for oil to be released from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a way to

March 13, 2011 Read Full Article

Big Meat and Its Big Lie

By Stephanie Dreyer (Growth Energy/RenewableEnergyWorld.com)  Smithfield, the world's largest producer and processor of pork, reported record profits this quarter as the global economy continues to recover and exports rise. ...Despite these record earnings, just yesterday the American Meat Institute supported legislation introduced from Senators

March 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Neste Oil Celebrates the Grand Opening of Its ISCC-Certified Renewable Diesel Plant in Singapore

(Neste Oil)   Neste Oil with Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Mr. Teo Chee Hean, Finnish Minister for Ownership Steering Mr. Jyri Häkämies, and some 200 guests celebrate the grand opening of its renewable diesel plant in

March 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Kenya: NEMA Orders New Study On Biofuel Tree

by Mazera Ndurya    (AllAfrica.com)  A team of specialists has been set up to study the viability of the controversial jatropha trees after renewed interest by foreign investors to start the project. The team was formed by the National Environment management Authority

March 10, 2011 Read Full Article

New Economic Study Affirms that Livestock Producers Benefit from Biodiesel

(National Biodiesel Board)  Thanks to biodiesel, soybean oil and meal economics favor the livestock industry concludes a study released today. In addition without America’s advanced biofuel in the marketplace higher soybean meal prices could have cost the livestock industry $4.8 billion

March 09, 2011 Read Full Article

Mind-Bending Microbes

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  New isobutanol-producing and protein-munching microbes from UCLA remind us that biofuels remain in the anything-but-static, eye-popping era of their development. The Digest’s “mind-bending breakthrough” in-basket is overflowing this week with advances in the fermentation of protein

March 08, 2011 Read Full Article

Vilsack: US Farms Producing Enough for Food & Biofuels

by John Davis (DomesticFuel.com)  ...“It is irritating to me that we have to read about this all the time, because what it is basically is saying is that the folks advancing this argument either do not understand or do not

March 07, 2011 Read Full Article

Letter to Editor: Ethanol's Undeserved Bad Rap

by Mike Doherty (Illinois Farm Bureau/Chicago Tribune)  I read your editorial "Burning Dinner" and question your implication that farmers are diverting corn toward fuel production that otherwise would be used to feed a hungry world. First of all, the public should

March 07, 2011 Read Full Article

Advanced Biofuels USA Publishes Paper and Slide Presentation on Truly Optimized Flex Fuel Vehicles: Benefits and How to Achieve Them

Meeting two parts of its mission, to increase the 1) understanding and 2) use of advanced biofuels, Advanced Biofuels USA, a nonprofit educational organization, published a paper and accompanying slide presentation.  A revised version of Robert E. Kozak’s paper on

March 06, 2011 Read Full Article

European Biofuels Technology Platform Adds Reports to Library

(European Biofuels Technology Platform)  The mission of the European Biofuels Technology Platform (EBTP) is to contribute to the development of cost-competitive, world-class biofuels technologies, to the creation of a healthy biofuels industry and to accelerate the deployment of sustainable biofuels

March 04, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuel Boom Could Follow Oil Price Spike

by Damian Carrington (The Guardian)  When biofuels match oil on price, production could boom in the developing countries that also have the greatest need to boost food supply The production of biofuels, good thing or not, will be decided by the setting

March 04, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuel Startup Hopes to Win Over Skeptics

by Marc Gunther (Sustainable Business Forum)  ...If I’d taken biology and chemistry in college, I might be explain to explain Codexis’s technology in a sophisticated away. Here’s the best I can manage: In brief, the company rearranges the DNA of

March 04, 2011 Read Full Article

Peak Phosphorus: Is There Enough for Biofuels at Scale?

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Forget water or oil, we’ll run out of phosphorus first, say some. Will that spell “doom” for biofuels as usual? ...It’s phosphorus. Environmentalists and the scientific community have been warning for the past two years that

March 04, 2011 Read Full Article

Scientific Panel to Review EPA's Triennial Biofuels Draft Report

by Kris Bevill (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  The U.S. EPA has scheduled an independent peer review meeting for March 14 to review a draft report it is preparing for Congress which will detail the current and potential future environmental impacts associated

March 03, 2011 Read Full Article

Schwarzenegger: Time to Change the Energy Debate

by Martin LaMonica (GreenTech)  Green-technology proponents need a better way to make their case, according to Arnold Schwarzenegger...The former California governor and movie star gave a keynote talk at the ARPA-E Summit here, alternating between funny one-liners and serious discussion

March 02, 2011 Read Full Article

Demand Topped off for Ethanol

by Leslie Brooks Suzukamo (Pioneer Press/TwinCities.com)  2010 saw record production for evolving industry. U.S. ethanol production pretty much hit a ceiling last year at 13.23 billion gallons, or about 10 percent of all gasoline production, according to an industry report Monday. To

March 01, 2011 Read Full Article

Port Biodiesel Plant in Chiapas, Farmers Buy the Product

(La Prensa)  The Committee on Biofuels Congress of State in charge of Deputy Carlos Avendaño Nagaya, promoted to mayors of municipalities in the Frontera Sur pinion culture as raw material for biodiesel, especially for land planted in disused or abandoned

March 01, 2011 Read Full Article

A Revised and Expanded Food Dollar Series: A Better Understanding of Our Food Costs

by Patrick Canning (US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service)  A new ERS food dollar series measures annual expenditures on domestically produced food by individuals living in the United States and provides a detailed answer to the question “For what

February 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Clinton Warns of Biofuel Impact on Poor

by Philip Brasher (Des Moines Register)  Former President Bill Clinton sounded a warning today on the impact that biofuels can have on global food prices and political stability. “We have to become energy independent but we don’t want to do

February 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Abercrombie Introduces Biodiesel Crop Research Project

by Lance Cpl. Vanessa American Horse  (Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System)  A project that is expected to help reduce dependence on fossil fuels kicked off here (Marine Corps Base Hawaii – Kaneohe Bay) Feb. 4. The 24-month research project will focus on sustainable

February 23, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol Lowers Food Costs

by Orrie Swayze (Ag Week)  America’s corn crop is a miracle crop that, on a sustainable, per-acre basis, grows three times as much grain and creates three times as much soil organic matter by capturing three times as much carbon as

February 23, 2011 Read Full Article

CARB Tackling Crude Oil’s Carbon Intensity in LCFS

by Joanna Schroeder  (DomesticFuel.com)  ...(S)till under fire is CARB’s final ruling on the carbon intensity levels given for ethanol and biodiesel. When CARB determined the original levels of corn ethanol, it essentially barred the fuel from qualifying as a low

February 23, 2011 Read Full Article

National Security Leaders, CEOs Call for Action to Reduce California Oil Dependence

(CalSTEP)  Former Sec Shultz and Panel Cite Skyrocketing State Oil Imports, Price Shocks, Federal Inaction in Report A diverse group of leaders, including President Reagan’s Secretary of State, released a report today that said California would benefit if it took a

February 23, 2011 Read Full Article

Study Confirms Viability of Jatropha Plant Oil for Electric Power Generation and Industrial Heating

(SG Biofuels)  SG Biofuels and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) today released results of a study revealing the performance and emissions benefits of using Jatropha oil as a drop-in replacement for diesel fuel in industrial furnaces used for electric power generation

February 23, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol is 'Good, Good, Good,' Grassley Says

by Courtney Blanchard   (Telegraph Herald)  Senator rejects new criticism of U.S. ethanol policy that comes after reports of low corn reserves. Near record-high corn prices and the lowest reserves in 15 years have reinvigorated the debate over ethanol. U.S. Sen. Chuck

February 22, 2011 Read Full Article

A Billion Tons of Biomass a Viable Goal, but at High Price, New Research Shows

by Phil Ciciora (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)  A team of researchers led by Madhu Khanna, a professor of agricultural and consumer economics at Illinois, shows that very high biomass prices would be needed in order to meet the ambitious

February 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuel Crops to Fall within Assurance Chain

by Julian Gairdner (Farmers Weekly Interactive)  Grain destined for the biofuel chain looks set to fall within farm assurance following negotiations between Assured Food Standards, the NFU and the European Commission. Ensuring there was a single assurance programme was a key objective of

February 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Blame it on Biofuels: The Same Old Food vs Fuel Argument Is Back Again and Just as Irrelevant as Last Time

by Joelle Brink (Biofuels Digest Asia)  ...(M)ost of the food vs fuel stories archived on the web were dated either 2008 or 2011, and that many seemed remarkably similar. That’s when it dawned on me that very few people want

February 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Government Hands May Be Tied on Ethanol: USDA Official

by Ayesha Rascoe  (Reuters)  ..."The fact is the industry has pretty much been built," USDA Chief Economist Joe Glauber told reporters on the sidelines of a Commodity Markets Council conference. "This isn't a question of just saying 'cut it off.'

February 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Texas A&M Dining Takes Sustainability To The Next Level

(Texas A&M University)  Sustainability is more than a buzz word with Texas A&M University Dining, which partners with Terrabon, Inc. to collect post- consumer food scraps from the two biggest dining centers on campus for use in producing biofuels. Terrabon will produce the

February 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Boeing Hopes Biofuel Market-Ready By 2015

by George Tibbits (AP/Manufacturing.net)   Boeing Co. hopes aviation biofuels will be practical for the market by around 2015, but it's going to take a lot of work. Richard Wynne, Boeing Commercial Airplane's director of environment and aviation policy, told reporters

February 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Malthusiasm Returns: Is It “Food vs Fuel”, or “Progress vs Same as It Ever Was”

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...The dialogue over the opportunities for biofuels continues to veer, as ever, away from the technology itself, or any emission-reducing or security-enhancing attributes of the fuel – and comes down to two questions. Can biofuels

February 21, 2011 Read Full Article

Challenges for Biofuels: Not Just Technical Hurdles To Overcome

by Lynn Yarris (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/Renewable Energy World)  That is the promise of advanced biofuels and the focus to date has been on the technological challenges of producing high quality biofuels in a way that is both sustainable and

February 21, 2011 Read Full Article

Jatropha - Green Biodiesel from African Tree

by Bård Amundsen/Else Lie. Translation: Darren McKellep/Carol B. Eckmann(The Research Council of Norway)   Jatropha has been championed as a major environmental opportunity for developing countries with a semi-arid climate and marginal soil. Scientist Karl Hilding Thunes of the Norwegian Forest

February 21, 2011 Read Full Article

UK Wheat Crop Can Expand to Meet Food and Fuel Demand

by Nigel Hunt (Reuters)  * UK wheat yields seen having potential to rise * EU biofuel expansion seen mainly based on bioethanol * Higher percentage of equity used in financing project Britain can grow enough wheat to supply the needs of food, feed

February 21, 2011 Read Full Article

ADM to Invest in Sustainable Palm Production in Brazil

(ADM)  Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) today announced plans to invest in sustainable palm production in Brazil. Spanning five years, the ADM investment will encompass approximately 12,000 hectares of palm production in the state of Pará and include the

February 21, 2011 Read Full Article

25x'25 Offers New Food-versus-Fuel Information FAQ

(25 x '25)  Last week, USDA reported that surplus corn stocks have hit their lowest point since 1995 and corn prices have risen from $3.50 per bushel in July 2010, to $6.10 in January 2011. Critics of biofuels charge that

February 18, 2011 Read Full Article

2 Studies Target Sticking Points, Gaps in Life-Cycle Calculations of Biofuels

by Jenny Mandel (New York Times/Greenwire)  Conducting in-depth life-cycle assessments of the environmental impacts of biofuels is complicated, and new research suggests some questions in comparing biofuels to alternatives like petroleum-based fuels will never be answered. Furthermore, one study argues, consumer

February 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol Gets Seat on California LCFS Panel

by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com)   Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) Vice President of Research and Analysis Geoff Cooper has been selected to represent the ethanol industry on the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) Low Carbon Fuels Standard (LCFS) Advisory Panel. Panel

February 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Off into the Wild, Green Yonder

(The Economist)  SPOOKED by the spike in oil prices in 2008 and warily eyeing the latest spurt in fuel charges, airlines have noted that the costs of not going green are growing. In particular, they fret about the painful levies on

February 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Shell Future Energy Scenarios: 'Zone Of Uncertainty' Ahead

(Royal Dutch Shell)  Shell, February 14, 2011, published Signals and Signposts - a report into future energy scenarios which offers a deeper understanding of global developments and the world's energy supply, use and needs. They help us to make crucial choices in

February 14, 2011 Read Full Article

How Biofuels Contribute to the Food Crisis

by Tim Searchinger (op ed The Washington Post)  ...Agricultural production is keeping up in general with the growing demand for food - but it keeps up with the added demand for biofuels only if growing weather is good. ...Higher fuel

February 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Global Pacts Like REDD Ignore Primary Causes of Destruction of Forests, New Study Suggests

(Science Daily)  A new study by some of the world's top experts on forest governance finds fault with a spate of international accords, and helps explain their failure to stop rampant destruction of the world's most vulnerable forests. The report

February 06, 2011 Read Full Article

Masdar Institute Completes First Sustainability Assessment for Biofuels Production from an Integrated Seawater Agriculture System

(ME NewsWire)  Research confirms viability of using saltwater and arid land to create new forms of sustainable bio energy Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MI), the Boeing Company, Etihad Airways, and Honeywell’s UOP announced today the completion of a Sustainability

February 04, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuel Crops Will Not Increase Food Prices, Shortages

by Samihah Zaman  (Gulfnews)   More production aids development There is currently no need to worry that increasing biofuel crops for transport purposes will create food shortages and food price rises in the world, a panel in the capital heard yesterday. Instead,

February 04, 2011 Read Full Article

New Figures: Palm Oil Destroys Malaysia’s Peatswamp Forests Faster than Ever

(Wetlands International)  An increasing part of Malaysia’s palm oil is produced at the account of huge areas of tropical peatswamp forests. Especially in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, expansion of oil palm plantations may lead to the complete loss of

February 04, 2011 Read Full Article

Netherland Launches Biofuel Certification Scheme

(Argus Media)  The Netherlands has launched the first system for the certification of all types of sustainable biomass. The system was launched last week by standardisation institute NEN and the Rotterdam Climate Initiative (RCI). The system is based on the Dutch

February 02, 2011 Read Full Article

There Is No Food-Ethanol Trade-Off

by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association/Wall Street Journal)  letter to editor      Regarding your editorial "Amber Waves of Ethanol" (Jan. 22): Ethanol production today is as much about feed as it is about fuel. One out of every three bushels of corn entering

February 01, 2011 Read Full Article

Finnair Postpones Introduction of Biofuel

(Helsingin Sanomat)  Price and ethical sustainability unsuitable for airline The Finnish state-owned airline Finnair has reversed an earlier decision to start using biofuel in some of its commercial flights this year. Finnair was to have started to use kerosene produced by Neste Oil

February 01, 2011 Read Full Article

The Corn Ethanol War: Wall Street Journal, Gingrich Get out the Slingblades

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In New York, the Wall Street Journal launched a bitter counterattack this week on former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, after Gingrich remarked, at a meeting of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association that “Obviously big urban

February 01, 2011 Read Full Article

DOE Federal Lab Says Life Cycle Analysis Does Not Factor in Rare Earth Metals or Mountain Top Removal

[caption id="attachment_16291" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="From left, Warren Brown, automotive columnist for the Washington Post and Ron Cogan, publisher of Green Car Journal co-moderate Green Car Summit Panel: Tom Baloga, VP Engineering for BMW North America; Susan M. Cischke, Group VP,

January 31, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol Trade Groups Bash Draft EPA Report

by Ben Geman (The Hill/E2Wire)  The ethanol industry is quickly attacking a draft EPA study that details a slew of ecological harms that could accompany increased biofuels production. “EPA’s failure to provide this report in any context with the environmental degradation done

January 31, 2011 Read Full Article

India Unveils Coastal Saline Crop Initiative

by P Sivaramakrishnan (BBC News) A pilot project to see if cash crops can be grown in the salty ground of India's coastal areas has been launched.   The area in Tamil Nadu state will house dozens of

January 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Sustainable Palm Oil Output, Use Grow Last Year

(Commodity Online)  The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) ended the year 2010 with strong growth in both the production and use of RSPO-certified sustainable palm oil. Compared to 2009, numbers doubled, in many cases even tripled compared to the year

January 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Can We Innovate Our Way Out of the Challenges that Confront Us?

by Joelle Brink  (Biofuels Digest-Asia)  As New Year celebrations get under way throughout Asia, the year in biofuels is shaping up to be one of uncertainty.  Already, notable advances in sustainable palm oil supply, cellulosic ethanol production, and biofuels from

January 28, 2011 Read Full Article

New Biofuel Development Guidelines Unveiled in Dar

by Michael Haonga (IPP Media/The Guardian)  Tanzania has reaffirmed its commitment to sustain a multi-faceted strategy for harnessing power from various sources, including biofuel, to cover any shortfall. The assurance was made in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday by Minister for

January 28, 2011 Read Full Article

European Commission Approves State Support for Development of Second Generation Biofuel

(Chemrec)  The European Union has  approved the SEK 500 million (€55 million, $75 million) R&D  grant  awarded by the Swedish Energy Agency towards the industrial scale demonstration biofuels plant based on Chemrec’s gasification technology at the Domsjö Fabriker biorefinery in

January 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Vinod Khosla on the Technology Pathway to Biofuels

by Vinod Khosla (Green Tech Media)  Part 1: Production technologies: where are we? The financial crisis of 2008 set back a number of projects and slowed actual construction of pilot and demo plants like it did in all industries, be

January 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Corn Profitable for Farmers, Less So for Ethanol

by Dan Piller (Des Moines Register)  The surge in corn prices since mid-2010 has bolstered the profits of corn farmers but has eaten away at the profitability of ethanol producers. ...Ethanol producers meanwhile saw a dramatic drop in their margins from

January 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Nebraska's 'Golden Triangle' Attracts Cattle

(Nebraska Farmer)  The Nebraska Department of Agriculture and the Nebraska Corn Board have jointlyreleased a video that shows the opportunities available for feeding cattle in Nebraska. ..."We have talked about Nebraska's Golden Triangle of corn, livestock and ethanol. As the third

January 24, 2011 Read Full Article

CARB to Review Ethanol Carbon Intensity Amendments

by Kris Bevill  (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  The California Air Resources Board will hold a public hearing Feb. 24 to consider 25 amendments proposed by various ethanol producers, representing 1.6 billion gallons of annual domestic production, to reduce the carbon intensity

January 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Masdar Institute Completes First Sustainability Assessment for Biofuels Production from an Integrated Seawater Agriculture System

(BusinessWire/Masdar Institute)  Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MI), the Boeing Company, Etihad Airways, and Honeywell’s UOP announced January 19, 2011, the completion of a Sustainability Assessment of the Integrated Seawater Agriculture System (ISAS) for production of aviation biofuels and

January 21, 2011 Read Full Article

ADM Gives US$10 Million to Found Institute to Reduce Global Postharvest Loss of Grains, Oilseeds

(BusinessWire/ADM)  University of Illinois research center will work to preserve more of what’s grown worldwide Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) today founded the ADM Institute for the Prevention of Postharvest Loss with a US$10 million grant to the University of

January 21, 2011 Read Full Article

What Matters in Biofuels?

by Vinod Khosla (GreenTechMedia)  Given the likely continued dominance of the internal combustion engine, cellulosic and sugar-derived fuels offer one of the lowest risk advances to quickly and affordably achieve low-carbon transportation. Furthermore, substituting higher value bio-chemicals for petro-chemicals, will

January 20, 2011 Read Full Article

Chromatin’s Yield Machine: Is Instant Gene-Stacking a Game-Changer for Energy Crops?

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Illinois, Chromatin announced the successful first demonstration that genes can be assembled, stacked, and expressed in sugarcane using the company’s mini-chromosome technology. Now, what exactly is a gene stack and why should I care? Most

January 19, 2011 Read Full Article

As Gas Prices Rise, State Looks at Fuel Alternatives

by Robyn L. Minor (Bowling Green Daily News)  Officials studying logistical challenges facing biofuel progress With gas prices in December seeing the biggest jump in 18 months, consideration of alternative fuel development moves to the forefront. “Gas price certainly reinvigorates the conversation,”

January 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Spinning ILUC Policy the European Way

by Robert Vierhout  (ePURE/Ethanol Producer Magazine)  It took the European Commission several stakeholder meetings, two public consultations and many more economic modelling studies to conclude that the indirect land use change (ILUC) effects of biofuel demand are not that obvious.

January 18, 2011 Read Full Article

College Students Lack Scientific Literacy, Study Finds

(Michigan State University)  Most college students in the United States do not grasp the scientific basis of the carbon cycle – an essential skill in understanding the causes and consequences of climate change, according to research published in the January

January 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Approaches for Optimising the Greenhouse Gas Balance of Biodiesel Produced from Rapeseed

(IEA Bioenergy Task 39)  On the request of the UFOP, the DBFZ examined several approaches to improving the Green-House-Gas (GHG) saving balance of biodiesel produced from rape seed. The work was based on the so called default values for biodiesel

January 18, 2011 Read Full Article

How Agricultural Biotechnology Boosts Food Supply and Accomodates Biofuels

by Steven Sexton, David Zilberman   (National Bureau of Economic Research)  Increased global demand for biofuels is placing increased pressure on agricultural systems at a time when traditional sources of yield improvements have been mostly exhausted, generating concerns about the future of

January 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuel Bonanza for East TN Farmers

(Nashville Business Journal)  East Tennessee farmers have started to reap benefits from efforts to turn switchgrass into biofuel, with at least one farmer saying that if he had it to do over again, he would devote four times as much

January 14, 2011 Read Full Article

New Research Shows Bioenergy Crops are Complementary, Not Competitors

(The Farm Trader)  With public debate surrounding how Australia can meet its future energy needs gathering pace in recent weeks, three new RIRDC reports on potential bioenergy feedstocks will serve as a valuable addition to the exchange of ideas on

January 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol Industry Faces High Corn Prices

by Todd Neeley (The Progressive Farmer)   ...(P)ressure from rising corn prices at the start of 2011 is expected to test ethanol producers' ability to manage risk. ...Rabobank said ethanol would remain profitable with corn prices above $7 a bushel.

January 12, 2011 Read Full Article

On-Farm Energy Prices May Rise as Economy Improves

By Christine Souza  (California Farm Bureau Federation)   As the nation attempts to recover from the economic downturn, farmers and ranchers realize this kind of positive movement in the economy will lead to higher energy costs. A significant portion of

January 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Study Estimates Land Available for Biofuel Crops

(EurekAlert/University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana)  Using detailed land analysis, Illinois researchers have found that biofuel crops cultivated on available land could produce up to half of the world's current fuel consumption – without affecting food crops or pastureland. Published in the journal Environmental Science

January 11, 2011 Read Full Article

The Hidden Cost of Oil at the Grocery Store Checkout Counter

by Stephanie Dreyer (Renewable Energy World/Growth Energy)  ...The cost of crude is a major inflator of grocery prices, because transportation, manufacturing and packaging cost more as oil prices go up. In 2009, when diesel was $2.67 a gallon, the cost

January 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Global Renewable Fuels Alliance: Biofuels Can Ease the Impact of Hazardous Oil Prices

(Global Renewable Fuels Alliance)  This week the International Energy Agency (IEA) issued a wakeup call to the world that high oil prices pose a threat to the stability of an already fragile recovering global economy. The IEA went on to

January 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels Not Sustainable as Fuels for Automobiles in India: Ramesh

(India Transport Portal)  While biofuels are being considered as the alternative fuel for the vehicles in number of countries, they are not the sustainable option as the fuel for automobiles in India, said Jairam Ramesh, Environment Minister of Indian Union

January 06, 2011 Read Full Article

German Study Shows Rapeseed GHG Potential

by Luke Geiver (Biodiesel Magazine)  The German Biomass Research Center has conducted a study on optimizing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from rapeseed-based biodiesel. The goal of the study was to analyze the current default values for GHGs from rapeseed-based biodiesel,

January 06, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels: A Market of Political Opportunities

by Robert Vierhout (ePURE/Ethanol Producer Magazine)  In Europe, much more than in the United States, green (but not just) non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are engaged loudly and aggressively in the biofuel debate. For several years now, a number of NGOs have

January 06, 2011 Read Full Article

Popping the Hood on California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard: A Digest Special Series

by Brooke Coleman (NewFuelsAlliance/Biofuels Digest)   ...(W)hat’s good and what needs to be fixed in the LCFS? Where should the biofuels industry be happy, be  hopeful, or be hopping mad? Brooke Coleman of the New Fuels Alliance – who knows this better

January 06, 2011 Read Full Article

Disarming the Food to Fuel Conflict Part 2: The Misinformation Campaign

by Christopher Klug (Tiny Green Bubble)  ...According to the Renewable Fuels Association data, the United States produced and used approximately 10.6 billion gallons of ethanol in 2009, making the US the largest producer of ethanol in the world. (Renewable Fuels

January 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Disarming the Food to Fuel Conflict Part 1: The Biofuel History

by Christopher Klug (Tiny Green Bubble)  In the United States, domestic ethanol production and motor fuel additives are becoming more and more common. However, a bevy of misinformation campaigns surround the use of resources for these clean energy initiatives. These

January 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Malaysia's Sime Darby, Japan's Mitsui Engineering Sign Biofuel Deal

(Japan Today)  Malaysia’s Sime Darby Plantation is collaborating with Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Co to construct and operate a bioethanol demonstration plant in Malaysia’s Selangor State. The plant will convert oil empty palm fruit branches, available year-round and in abundant

January 04, 2011 Read Full Article

The Impact Of A Renewable Electricity Standard & A Carbon Payment Program

By Don Hofstrand (Iowa State University Extension/JoplinStockyards.com)   U.S. energy policy has recently moved into the background due to concerns about the current economic downturn. However, the importance of the two major drivers of energy policy - the need to wean

December 30, 2010 Read Full Article

Ethanol from Sugar Beets: A Process and Economic Analysis

by Emily Bowen, Sean C. Kennedy, Kelsey Miranda  (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) The aim of this project was to design a process for producing bioethanol from sugar beets as a possible feedstock replacement for corn. Currently eighty-five percent of the energy used by the United

December 30, 2010 Read Full Article

Algae-Based Biofuels Closer to Reality?

by Willie Vogt  (Farm Futures)  ...Cellana, an algal biofuel research company based in Kailua Kona, Hawaii, is leading a consortium that includes Cornell, Duke University, San Francisco State University, the University of Hawaii and the University of Southern Mississippi. The

December 30, 2010 Read Full Article

Wilmar: US, EU Biofuels Laws Favor Domestic Producers

by Nicholas Zeman  (Associated Content/Yahoo!)  Asia's Largest Ag-Firm Discusses the Global Biodiesel Market ...New Diesel Magazine spoke with an official from Wilmar, on the condition of anonymity, about the implementation of the EU's Renewable Energy Directive and the efforts to ensure

December 30, 2010 Read Full Article

NRC Proposes Committee for Algal Biofuels

(Algae Industry Magazine)  The National Research Council has proposed to the National Academies to appoint a committee to examine the promise of sustainable development of algal biofuels, identify potential concerns, unforeseen sustainability challenges and unintended consequences for a range of

December 30, 2010 Read Full Article

China Has Seen the Future, and It Is Coal

by George Will (The Washington Post)  Cowlitz County in Washington state ...approved construction of a coal export terminal from which millions of tons of U.S. coal could be shipped to Asia annually. Both Oregon and Washington are curtailing the coal-fired generation

December 30, 2010 Read Full Article

Can a Shell Be a Biofuel?

(Newsvine/Just4ThePlanet)   When we think of the brand Shell, we see a global group of energy and petrochemical companies in more than 90 countries and territories. We do not associate the Shell brand with Biofuels or vegetable oil diesel; we associate

December 29, 2010 Read Full Article

Swiss Study Urges Support to Second Generation of Biofuels

(Khabrein) A new Swiss Study by the federal office of power and environment assured that the so-called "second generation of Biofuels" has good chances for the environment and development as well. "Second generation biofuels impress, because of the characteristic that raw materials

December 29, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuels Ad Banned by Advertising Standards Authority after George Monbiot Complaint

by Mark Sweney   (The Guardian)   A complaint to the advertising watchdog by Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner George Monbiot has caused a national press ad claiming biofuels offer a sustainable alternative to oil to be banned. The national press campaign, by the

December 27, 2010 Read Full Article

Palm Oil-into-Biodiesel is Heart of Hawaii's Green Energy Future

by Tom Tanton (Hawaiian Star Advertiser)  Hawaiian Electric Co. has announced plans to build a facility to convert palm oil into biodiesel. The biodiesel will contribute badly needed and affordable fuel for the utility to provide electricity to Hawaii's people. The

December 27, 2010 Read Full Article

Strong Ethanol Industry an Important Step

by Bill Jones (San Francisco Chronicle)  ...Separating fact from fiction in the ethanol debate is not easy. "Food versus fuel" is a nice catch phrase, but worldwide, biofuel production accounts for less than 1 percent of total agricultural acreage. Corn ethanol

December 23, 2010 Read Full Article

Fuel Vs. Food: Ethanol Helps Boost Meat Prices

by Kathleen Masterson   (NPR / WOI / Harvest Public Media)   ...And according to USDA data, meat now costs as much as 12 percent more than last year.  ...But let's get out of the kitchen for a minute — this is

December 23, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuels: Europe Adopts Report on Indirect Land Use Change

by S.C.  (TeatroNaturale International)   The Commission published today (December 22, 2010) a report on indirect land use change related to biofuels and bioliquids. The report acknowledges that indirect land use change can reduce greenhouse gas emissions savings associated with biofuels,

December 23, 2010 Read Full Article

State DNR Selects University of Washington Researchers to Assess Forest Biomass Supply Statewide

(Washington State Department of Natural Resources)  ...DNR today announced that the University of Washington, School of Forest Resources was selected as part of the research team to study the supply prospects of Washington’s working forests. It will be the first study

December 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Do Biofuels Compete with Food?

by Matt Cunningham (How Stuff Works)  ...The myriad of factors that go into the food-versus-biofuel equation are complex and vary from situation to situation. While one region's farming infrastructure, climate and fuel use may make it an ideal place to

December 22, 2010 Read Full Article

U.S. Gasoline Demand May Have Peaked for Good

by Jonathan Fahey  (AP/Salt Lake City Tribune)  ... After seven decades of mostly uninterrupted growth, U.S. gasoline demand is at the start of a long-term decline. By 2030, Americans will burn at least 20 percent less gasoline than today, experts say,

December 21, 2010 Read Full Article
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