By Matt Daily May 18 (Reuters) - After a decade of promise, advanced biofuels makers are entering a crucial make-or-break period with ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 04.12.2012
Facing a fierce primary challenge this year from the right, Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar found himself accused Wednesday night of driving up gas prices ...
Donald Carr | Posted 04.12.2012
Water is running off poorly managed fields that have been treated with chemical fertilizers and manure is loaded with nitrogen and phosphorus, two potent pollutants that set off a cascade of harmful consequences.
HuffingtonPost.com | Joe Satran | Posted 02.02.2012
Steel yourselves, steak fans: your dinner is about to get a lot more expensive. The price of beef has hit an all-time high in each of the last four...
Susan Buchanan | Posted 03.17.2012
Roots of mighty oaks push up through New Orleans sidewalks while trees in the metropolis often tower above nearby buildings. Nearly half of Louisiana, in fact, is covered with forests, and the southern U.S. as a whole is considered the nation's wood basket.
Gen. Wesley Clark | Posted 03.07.2012
Without those 13 billion gallons of ethanol, motorists in the U.S. are all part of a captive market that is controlled by Big Oil. The alternative to ethanol is gasoline, nearly two-thirds of which is derived from foreign oil.
Mason Inman | Posted 03.06.2012
If the pipeline is approved, some environmental groups say they'll sue -- but if it is cancelled, the company proposing the pipeline, TransCanada, will probably reapply.
AP | By RYAN J. FOLEY | Posted 12.29.2011
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The "Great Recession" barely touched Iowa City. The University of Iowa and its hospital are in the middle of a construction boom. ...
AP | By JIM SUHR | Posted 12.12.2011
ST. LOUIS -- An Illinois farmer made so much money this year he made loan payments on one tractor a year in advance and exchanged some older ones for ...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 02.07.2012
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Triumph o...
AP | MICHAEL J. CRUMB | Posted 01.23.2012
DES MOINES, Iowa — Livestock farmers are demanding a change in the nation's ethanol policy, claiming current rules could lead to spikes in meat ...
AP | Posted 01.07.2012
PASCO, Wash. -- Two trains collided in a railroad yard at Pasco, causing two locomotives and 10 rail cars to derail early Monday, spilling 10,000 gall...
Joshua Freed | Posted 12.31.2011
Putting aside the moral or public health rationales for regulation, gutting environmental protections makes no sense economically.
Posted 11.26.2011
As temperatures rise and populations get larger, it's clear that breakthroughs in green technology hold the key to the survival of Earth and all the s...
The Daily Green | Posted 11.13.2011
From The Daily Green: Everyone agrees we're in an energy crisis, and everyone agrees we have to wean ourselves from foreign oil. General Motors sen...
Robert Bryce | Posted 11.07.2011
The recent bankruptcy of solar-panel-maker Solyndra shows, once again, that the entire concept of "green energy" jobs was bankrupt from the start. "...
David Mizejewski | Posted 10.21.2011
New research has uncovered a rather odd form of biodiesel: alligator fat.
Nathanael Greene | Posted 10.17.2011
An economic analysis done for 11 northeast and mid-Atlantic states shows that a clean fuels standard (CFS) is a winning idea for the region.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 10.03.2011
WASHINGTON – On July 21, Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty was followed around Iowa to multiple campaign stops by three young women wea...
Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.02.2011
Instead of subsidizing industries that anchor us in the past, we should be investing in the kinds of clean energy solutions that prepare us for the future.
Mason Inman | Posted 09.30.2011
Clean energy could be among the hardest-hit sectors if the U.S. government does not raise the debt ceiling and then defaults on the national debt.
Susanna Murley | Posted 09.12.2011
Some Girl Scouts say palm oil in their cookies are leading to deforestation. Cookies, schmookies, the real question is: should we could we put palm o...
AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 09.06.2011
WASHINGTON — Two senators from ethanol-producing states proposed Thursday to immediately end a tax credit for the corn-based fuel and agreeing t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Howard | Posted 09.05.2011
WASHINGTON -- There was a time that support for ethanol subsidies was an absolute must for any aspiring presidential candidate campaigning in Iowa, bu...
The Fiscal Times | BRUCE BARTLETT | Posted 08.24.2011
The main sticking point in negotiations between Republicans and Democrats on deficit reduction measures to accompany a rise in the debt limit is wheth...
Reuters | Posted 05.19.2012