Biofuels For Commercial Flights By 2010
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Friday it would approve biofuels for commercial flights by 2010 in a bid to drastically reduce...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Friday it would approve biofuels for commercial flights by 2010 in a bid to drastically reduce...
Josh Garrett | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green
Fuel does not chastise Americans for using petroleum products, but instead shows that a post-oil nation is well within our grasp -- all we need to do is extend our hands.
Bob Dinneen | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green
No credible research can conclude that ethanol production in the U.S. is the driving force behind deforestation and other land use changes in other sovereign nations.
Fast Company | Posted 09.14.2009 | Green
We've seen a spate of companies getting involved in algae fuel in recent months, and all of them plan to use some variation on bioreactors and algae f...
nytimes.com | JAD MOUAWAD | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green
Exxon plans to announce an investment of $600 million in producing liquid transportation fuels from algae -- organisms in water that range from pond s...
politico.com | SEN. JOHN THUNE | | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green
As Congress, the administration and the private sector look for ways to reduce our consumption of imported oil, we should not overlook the most readil...
The News Journal | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green
DuPont and BP said Thursday that European Union officials have approved a joint venture to develop and produce what they termed a new generation of bi...
Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle): | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green
Alaska Airlines has joined Boeing Co.'s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group, which the aerospace giant formed to accelerate the commercialization of...
Reuters | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green
But along with its usual business of pulp-making, the century-old mill is doing something unprecedented: Developing technology to produce bio-butanol,...
KPTV Portland | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green
From the first time he saw Emmett "Doc" Brown fire up the Mr. Fusion home energy reactor in the "Back to the Future" movies, Dave Nichols has always w...
Ethiopian News | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green
Cellulose-loving fungi can cut biofuel costs by enabling existing corn ethanol plants to process cheaper, woody feedstocks such as corn stover....
nytimes.com | KATIE HOWELL of Greenwire | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green
Extensive studies are needed to understand the water needs of biofuel production from cellulosic feedstocks or other next-generation sources, federal ...
Sacramento Bee | Jim Downing | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green
A local nonprofit that has developed a method for turning rice straw and wood waste into diesel fuel has attracted some big business backers....
Frances Beinecke | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green
If we can repeal the last-minute biofuels amendments to ACES, we can instill a belief that biofuels done right can be a real, American-grown, global warming solution.
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green
We have an oil dependency. We create too much waste. Wouldn't it be swell if we could kill two birds with one stone here? Here are some of the cooles...
Bob Dinneen | Posted 06.18.2009 | Green
Far from being "rigged" in favor of biofuels, EPA's examination was rigged against biofuels and ignored petroleum products.
Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.07.2009 | Green
It may not be the cover of Rolling Stone, but the Sierra Club's own Bruce Nilles is nonetheless a rock star for being No. 74 on the iconic rock magazine's "RS 100: Agents of Change" list.
David Blume | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business
Weeks ago I predicted that Big Oil would take advantage of the chaos of the changing administration to crush and buy up alcohol plants.
Tara Lohan | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green
It takes lots energy to move, use and treat water. And it takes lots of water to cool power plants. With that thinking, things like desalination and ethanol make less and less sense.
Bob Dinneen | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green
Producing ethanol from cellulose can cut carbon dioxide emissions by 86% compared to gasoline according to the US Department of Energy, and ethanol can be produced in almost every part of the country.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan must end. The healing -- moral, spiritual, economic, and in terms of violence -- can only begin when the US leaves these battlefields.
Nathanael Greene | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green
A "low carbon fuel standard" (LCFS) is a market-based, technologically neutral policy to address the carbon content of fuels. 11 states have banded together to start developing this.
Bob Dinneen | Posted 01.12.2009 | Green
To all those naysayers who said it couldn't be done, Kinder Morgan decided it could and is now the first company shipping ethanol by pipeline in the United States.
wired.com | Alexis Madrigal | Posted 12.18.2008 | Green
"We have 203 employees -- and we're growing," John Melo, CEO of alt-fuel startup Amyris, said as he stepped jauntily through the glass doors at his co...
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
Corn-based ethanol saves little oil and contributes even less to minimizing carbon dioxide emissions, drives up the cost of food, and requires almost as much energy from fossil fuels.
Yahoo! News | Posted 10.25.2009 | Green