Biofuel

Oregon Farm Installs New Methane Digester

Oregon Farm Installs New Methane Digester

NW Natural and Bonneville Environmental Foundation are building a $1 million methane digester at Threemile Canyon Farms in Boardman, Ore. Although methane digesters are not new, Bill Eddie of the foundation ...

December 15, 2008

Green Earth Technologies Makes Motor Oil From Animal Fat

Green Earth Technologies Makes Motor Oil From Animal Fat

Green Earth Technologies says it has found a way to make motor oil from animal fat. The company's engine oil will enter a market that hasn't changed much since Mobil 1 synthetic ...

December 4, 2008

Minnesota Paper Recycler To Power With Biogas

Minnesota Paper Recycler To Power With Biogas

St. Paul Port Authority has gained unanimous support from the City Council to develop a once-controversial biogas plan, Star Tribune reports. The biogas plan is aiming to pipe rural Minnesota manure and ...

November 21, 2008

Alternative Energy Use For Manufacturers Promising, Cost Still A Hurdle

Alternative Energy Use For Manufacturers Promising, Cost Still A Hurdle

James Lee, an associate professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, recently spoke with IndustryWeek about the pros and cons of alternative energy use in manufacturing. Lee says that manufacturers are investing ...

November 14, 2008

Suzlon, ADAGE, Wal-Mart Announce Green Commitments

Suzlon, ADAGE, Wal-Mart Announce Green Commitments

At the 2008 Clinton Global Initiative, several companies announced plans to invest in the green economy. Suzlon Green Power announced a $5 billion commitment in green energy assets over five years, which aims to bring ...

September 26, 2008

Sustainable Power Corp. Turns Trash Into Biofuel

Sustainable Power Corp. Turns Trash Into Biofuel

Sustainable Power Corp. announced that it has successfully tested turning Municipal Solid Waste into biofuel using the company's reactors. "By utilizing Municipal Solid Waste in our reactors, we have substantially increased potential revenue because municipalities ...

September 19, 2008

International Biofuel Standard Set

International Biofuel Standard Set

The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels has gathered environmentalists, industry leaders, and university researchers to develop the first international standard for biofuel production, Worldwatch Institute reports. The roundtable is the first large-scale effort ...

August 26, 2008

Clean Energy Attracts Investors Despite Struggling Economy

Clean Energy Attracts Investors Despite Struggling Economy

While the world's economy is struggling clean energy companies have continued to attract record investments, with global investments in clean energy growing 41 percent to $117 billion and venture capital and private ...

August 12, 2008

EPA Declines to Ease Renewable Fuel Quota

EPA Declines to Ease Renewable Fuel Quota

The EPA declined to reduce the renewable fuel quota for this year, even as the State of Texas called for cutting it in half, amid fears that biofuels are driving up ...

August 11, 2008

Environmentalists Win Big at Mass. Statehouse

Environmentalists Win Big at Mass. Statehouse

Many bills were crushed during the Legislature's 19-month session but environmentalist have racked up win after win at the Statehouse, helped along by a sympathetic governor. AP compiled a list of ...

August 5, 2008

Ineos Gets Biofuel From Waste

Ineos Gets Biofuel From Waste

Chemical company Ineos has developed a technology to make bioethanol from waste, Reuters reports. With land being used to grow biofuel rather than food crops the shine has come off the fuel's green credentials, but Ineos ...

July 31, 2008

Rolls-Royce, BA Partner On Alternative Fuel Research

Rolls-Royce, BA Partner On Alternative Fuel Research

Rolls-Royce and British Airways are starting a test program to research alternative fuels for the aviation industry. The study will seek to identify practical alternatives to the current industry-standard fuel kerosene. The companies ...

July 10, 2008

Town Says Biodiesel ‘Way Too Expensive,’ Shelves Plan For Green Fleet

Town Says Biodiesel ‘Way Too Expensive,’ Shelves Plan For Green Fleet

High costs have forced the town of Greenwich, Connecticut to abandon plans to run half of its fleet on a soy-based biodiesel fuel, Greenwich Time reports (via CT Environmental Headlines). The ...

July 7, 2008

Anaerobic Digestion Facility At Maker’s Mark Powers Distillery

Anaerobic Digestion Facility At Maker’s Mark Powers Distillery

An anaerobic digestion facility installed by Ecovation will process stillage from the Maker's Mark bourbon whiskey brewing facility to produce a methane and carbon dioxide biofuel to power the distillery's ...

July 4, 2008

Branson Plans Zero Carbon Resort, Launches Eco-Consulting Group

Branson Plans Zero Carbon Resort, Launches Eco-Consulting Group

Richard Branson plans to turn his Mosquito Island in the British Virgin Islands into the most environmentally-friendly resort in the world, The Associated Press reports. Located off Virgin Gorda and within sight ...

July 2, 2008

Con Ed Using More Biofuel, Hybrids

Con Ed Using More Biofuel, Hybrids

Con Edison is increasing the use of biodiesel fuel in its truck fleet and is replacing 50 of its smaller vehicles with hybrids in 2008, the company announced. The company says using ...

June 26, 2008

Renewable Energy ‘Essential Part’ Of Hawaiian Utility

Renewable Energy ‘Essential Part’ Of Hawaiian Utility

Through a competitive bidding framework the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission implemented in 2006, the Hawaiian Electric Co. says it is seeking developers interested in supplying up to 100 MW of renewable ...

June 24, 2008

Tyson To Turn Animal Byproducts Into Biofuel

Tyson To Turn Animal Byproducts Into Biofuel

Tyson Foods, which provides nearly 25 percent of the total U.S. meat supply and produces an estimated 300 million gallons of animal fat annually, has announced plans to convert its animal byproducts ...

June 21, 2008

Citi: Investors Tapping Alternative Energy, Infrastructure Firms

Citi: Investors Tapping Alternative Energy, Infrastructure Firms

A growing international consensus to tackle climate change is going to mean a new emphasis from investors on alternative energy sources from traditional fossil fuels and the expansion and renewal of infrastructure, ...

June 18, 2008

Lufthansa Targets 25% Emissions Cut

Lufthansa Targets 25% Emissions Cut

German airline Lufthansa has committed to reducing its GHG emissions by 25-percent by 2020 and mixing biofuels with conventional jet kerosene as part of its environmental strategy, Bloomberg reports. In the company's ...

June 17, 2008

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