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Poet LLC, the nation's top ethanol producer, says it is has reduced its cellulosic ethanol production cost during the past year from $4.13 per gallon to $2.35 per gallon.
A Colorado company that has developed a process to convert wood to fuel is starting construction of what will eventually be a commercial-scale production plant.
Researchers from Michigan State and Michigan Technological universities are seeking to ensure a steady and sustainable supply of material for the state's first wood-based ethanol plant.
Global Energy Holdings Group, Inc. said Friday it will sell an ethanol production plant to Fiberight LLC. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.
Shares of ethanol producers rose in Monday afternoon trading as oil prices hit a new high for the year after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. economy is recovering, which could increase demand for gasoline.
The Obama administration renewed its commitment Tuesday to speed up investments in ethanol and other biofuels while seeking to deflect some environmentalists' claims that huge increases in corn ethanol use will hinder the fight against global warming.
Food stamps and child nutrition programs are expected to cost up to $900 million more this year because of increased ethanol use.
Ethanol producers asked the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday to boost the amount of ethanol that can be blended with gasoline, but automakers argued the increase could damage car engines and fuel lines.
If federal renewable fuel mandates require ethanol to be mixed into gasoline, the nation's largest independent oil refiner figures it might as well just do it itself.
Cellulosic ethanol, the next big hope for a biofuels industry hampered during the past year by volatile commodity price swings and shrinking profit margins, is continuing its slow march toward commercialization.
Brazil's biofuel industry just months ago was being flooded with billions in new investments for vast new sugarcane plantations and gleaming distilleries that churn out the cheapest ethanol on earth.
Expansion of vast sugarcane plantations across Brazil to meet growing worldwide demand for ethanol won't harm the Amazon, a top Brazilian official said Monday.
The Missouri treasurer's office rejected financial incentives Thursday for an $82 million ethanol plant whose investors include the governor's brother, a congressman's wife and a state lawmaker.
Ethanol's wild ride has brought it quickly from political golden child to scapegoat for everything from soaring food prices and world hunger to pork-barrel spending.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday denied a request from Texas Gov. Rick Perry to cut the federal ethanol mandate in half for a year.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday put off a decision on Texas' request to temporarily lower ethanol requirements for gasoline, a change Gov. Rick Perry says is needed to rein in corn prices.
The Energy Department frowned on relaxing federal requirements to boost the use of ethanol in gasoline.
More than four dozen House Republicans asked the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to reduce required ethanol production this year, saying renewable fuel standards enacted by Congress will boost already high corn prices in the wake of Midwest floods.
South Carolina fuel distributors must have access to pure gasoline needed to make their own ethanol blends under a law that supporters say is first in the nation and will save customers at the pump.
Mexico's agriculture secretary says ethanol production is bankrupting cattle and poultry farmers and causing food prices to hit record highs around the world.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, supported by livestock producers concerned about rising feed prices, stepped up his effort Tuesday to pressure the federal government to cut ethanol production requirements in half.
Beyond the short-term losses from physical damage and lost business, the worst flood to hit the U.S. breadbasket in 15 years has added momentum to the recent surge in food prices worldwide.
Sweet sorghum is grown in the U.S. for cooking and livestock feed. But the tall plant also might help at the gas pump.
Just months ago, ethanol was the Holy Grail to energy independence and a "green fuel" that would help nudge the country away from climate-changing fossil energy.
Senate Republicans have asked environmental regulators to use their power to halt the country's plans to expand ethanol production amid rising food prices.
Sick pupils copied TV storyline Six teenage pupils have been taken to hospital with ethanol poisoning after copying a storyline they saw in a BBC school drama. Five girls and a boy are being treated after they found and consumed the pure alcohol on the premises of Aldridge School, Walsall, the council said.
Baiting the DebateI recently received an email from my Congressman asking my opinion concerning an issue that has arisen from the debate over ObamaCare.
Good Way To End Paper Recycling Completely: Make Ethanol Motor Fuel From Waste PaperToday's printing and writing papers commonly have 20-30% recycled content. For fiber packaging materials, 60 to 100% recycle content is typical. It took decades for industry to reach those levels.
Corn-based meat and ethanol: burning the planet to a crispWhat do industrially produced meat and corn-based ethanol have in common? Well, they both thrive on the assumption that it's good idea to devote vast swaths of land to an incredibly resource-intensive crop—corn—and then run that crop through an energy-sucking process to cr …
Refining Poop Power: Wastewater In, Cellulosic Ethanol OutThere's no nice way of saying this: A group of green-minded entrepreneurs are making a clean-burning car fuel out of, well, poop.
Big Oil Goes GreenRemember back in 2001 when BP went "Beyond Petroleum"? It was a brilliant marketing campaign, but it had less to do with changing the company's business model than positioning Lord John Browne as the Teflon oil executive.
WWF Urges Public to Patronize Ethanol Fuels [Manila, Philippines] As one of the environmental sector's most experienced solutions-providers, WWF asserts that embracing biofuels such as ethanol can help open up the automotive industry – and the economy in general – towards a cleaner and greener era.
Algae Strain Uses CO2 Under High Light ConditionsThe rate of growth of algae is just one of several factors that affect biodiesel algae costs. Another big factor is extraction cost. What does it cost to get the oil separated from the rest of the algae mass?
Sugar shortage could lead to healthier lifestyle ????Sugar shortage in India due to decrease in production and increase in Brazil's appetite for sugar to make ethanol for fuel. Is it possible that alternative energy needs may lead to a healthier lifestyle ??
Exxon to Invest Millions to Make Fuel From AlgaeThe oil giant Exxon Mobil, whose chief executive once mocked alternative energy by referring to ethanol as "moonshine," is about to venture into biofuels.
Plant Would Let Algae Turn Carbon Dioxide to FuelDow Chemical and Algenol Biofuels, a start-up company, are set to announce Monday that they will build a demonstration plant that, if successful, would use algae to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol as a vehicle fuel or an ingredient in plastics.
Newly Uncovered Enzymes Turn Corn Plant Waste into BiofuelCellulose-loving fungi can cut biofuel costs by enabling existing corn ethanol plants to process cheaper, woody feedstocks such as corn stover
Pictured: The moment tanks containing thousands of gallons of ethanol explode after U.S. train derailmentTank cars loaded with thousands of gallons of highly flammable ethanol exploded in flames as a freight train derailed north-west of Chicago, killing one person and forcing evacuations of hundreds of nearby homes.
Ethanol fuel arrives in Sacramento area Sacramento is now a revolutionary outpost in the fight for cleaner fuels.
Ethanol's Grocery Bill - Two federal studies add up the corn fuel's exorbitant costThe Obama Administration is pushing a big expansion in ethanol, including a mandate to increase the share of the corn-based fuel required in gasoline to 15% from 10%.
Go Organic and Go Broke!How fickle the market can be in tough economic times.
Alcohol makes autos more climate-friendly DRIVING and alcohol don't usually mix, but giving a petrol engine an occasional slug of the hard stuff could make it as fuel-efficient as a petrol-electric hybrid.
Illinois Company Recalls Ground Beef - MSN Health & Fitness - NutritionWe will see more and more e Coli outbreaks. They now feed the cows more than just corn to fatten them up. They get the leftover from making ethanol.
The Great Ethanol ScamNot only is ethanol proving to be a dud as a fuel substitute but there is increasing evidence that it is destroying engines in large numbers
Ethanol Industry's 15% Solution Raises Concerns : alcohol reacts with materials that gasoline doesn'tThe Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to make an important and far-reaching decision this year that will affect more than 500 million gasoline engines powering everything from large pickups to family cars to lawn mowers: whether to grant the ethanol industry's reques …
Ten Superplants fighting for the environmentForget ethanol, President Obama. These ten superplants will do everything from cleansing soil to providing a far better biofuel than ethanol. Iowans, plant duckweed instead of corn!
White House steps up biofuels supportGood article on White House support for biofuels, but needs more context about ethanol. Is ethanol one that should get support? Many experts say no...we need to know the White House's thinking about ethanol.
EPA Reaches a Decision on Corn Ethanol: Yes and NoEPA cut a fine line between the two camps. It decided to take land-use changes into account, but that some methods of producing corn ethanol are clean enough that the improvement over petroleum will make up for indirect land-use changes over time.
Biofuel production: a drink-or-drive issue?Federal requirements to increase the production of ethanol has developed into a "drink-or-drive issue" in the Midwest as a result of biofuel production's impact on water supplies and water quality, says an environmental engineering researcher at Missouri University of Science and …
Will a phony carbon footprint crush the biofuels industry?Beginning discussions about how the upcoming revisions to the 2007 Renewable Energy bill might effect biofuel industry.
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