From Mother Nature Network's John Platt: Plant waste has long been seen as a possible source of sustainable biofuels, and new research out of Rice ...

This seems the perfect opportunity to re-think the kind of jobs that would be created supporting green transportation infrastructure projects.

What began as a research project at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), is now an ambitious business venture that aims to convert millio...

Did you know that the diesel engine was originally invented to run on vegetable oil? Or that ethanol was the preferred fuel for Henry Ford's Model T?

California, which is often forward-thinking on energy issues, challenged itself to use cleaner-burning fuels in the 1980s. Alexis Madrigal, writing fo...