Biofuel

Waste Management Landfill Gas Project Complete

A Waste Management Inc. landfill gas capture project at the Altamont Landfill near Livermore, Calif., has finally come into production, and now is powering 300 of ...

A Roadmap for a Renewable Energy Partnership

Partnerships can greatly accelerate the pace at which sustainability innovations are incorporated into the supply chain. Often, these collaborations are created precisely to ...

TX, NY and MD Schools Top EPA’s Green Power Schools Ranking

Schools in New York, Texas and Maryland top the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's inaugural ranking of the top 20 primary and secondary schools nationwide that ...

Industrial Biotech Can Reduce Emissions by 2.5B Tons Annually

The industrial biotechnology sector can reduce CO2 emissions by up to 2.5 billion tons per year, according to a new report. WWF, the world's largest ...

Delta, Southwest, United, Others To Adopt Biodiesel for LAX Ground Equipment

An alliance of eight airlines at Los Angeles International Airport has agreed to a multi-year deal to use renewable synthetic diesel for ground service equipment operations. The ...

U.S. Biofuel Industry Wants Pollution Credits in Climate Bill

Makers of biofuels, plastics and chemicals made from plants want carbon permits added to the U.S. climate bill that would allow them to emit greenhouse gases, reports ...

Weyerhauser Generates 75% of Energy Needs from Biomass Fuels

Weyerhauser Company, a forest products company, has met 75 percent of its operations' energy needs through the use of renewable and greenhouse-gas-neutral biomass fuels including ...

Oregon Ag Firm Adopts Biogas Generation

A biogas unit will generate twice as much electricity as is needed to run the operations at Stahlbush Island Farms in Oregon. The $10 million plant, ...

Aviation Industry Focuses on Sustainable Fuel Development

Several leading airline carriers have joined Boeing and members of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group (SAFUG), an airline-led industry working group launched in 2008 ...

House Appropriations Clears EPA Spending Bill

The House Appropriations Committee has approved a $10.6-billion spending bill for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with several amendments aimed at protecting agricultural interests from ...

Lamborghini Stampedes Toward Hybrid Car

While anathema to some Italian sports car enthusiasts, the Lamborghini of the future may well have a hybrid powertrain. Known for thirsty V8s and V12s, Lamborghinis epitomize excessive consumption. But the company, which wants to reduce its ...

Made of Veggies, Powered by Chocolate

After you run it in a race, can you cook it and eat it? Not quite, but an experimental green race car has a steering ...

EPA Renewable Fuel Standard To Foster Advanced Biofuels

In the face of declining U.S. biofuel production, the White House is forming a working group to speed the sustainable development of biofuels and make ethanol ...

FedEx Plans to Use 30% Biofuels by 2030

By 2030, FedEx plans to obtain 30 percent of its fuel from biodiesel, ethanol and other second-generation biofuels. The biodiesel would be derived from jatropha and the ...

California Pushes Through Low-Carbon Fuels

California's Air Resources Board voted to adopt a regulation that will put in place Governor Schwarzenegger's Low Carbon Fuel Standard, which mandates a reduction of ...

Lockheed Martin Expanding Into Green Market

As part of the expansion into the renewable energy market, Lockheed Martin Co. has set aside $10 million for investment in energy technologies developed outside the company, ...

Earth Biofuels Changes Name to Evolution Energy

Dallas-based Earth Biofuels Inc., known for its biodiesel and ethanol operations, is changing its name to Evolution Energy Inc. The name change is part of the firm's strategy to develop, produce and distribute other forms ...

Clean Energy Patents: Wind Up, Solar Flat, Fuel Cells Still King

Clean energy patents reached their highest level to date in 2008, according to results for the Fourth Quarter 2008 edition of the Clean Energy Patent ...

Turning Brewing Waste Into Ethanol

E-Fuel Corp. and Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. are working together to produce ethanol from discarded beer yeast. Testing will begin in the second quarter of this year, ...

Shell Accused of Greenwashing, Again

Royal Dutch Shell has been accused of exaggerating environmental policies in the past, and a new ad they’ve recently released is once again causing the ...