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• Weird Research: Genetically Altering Tobacco For Use As Biofuel Crop

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 588
  Tobacco harvesting machinery. Image credit: Kirpy .Welcome to addictive auto emissions. Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University are working toward turning tobacco into a source of oil used for biofuel ( Science Daily ). Breathing exhaust could be good for long haul truck drivers trying to stay awake in traffic. ...
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• Nottingham Makes Environment a Priority

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 493
  The environment has been one of the most discussed topics over the last decade according to a recent study into internet searches.  As the decade comes to an end the world is seemingly at a crucial time when it comes to the planet as climate change, pollution, overpopulation, and a variety of other environmental ...
  5 days ago

• PennWell’s Photovoltaics World Conference Program Finalized

  
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• India approves new policy to promote biofuels

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) In a bid to promote cost-effective clean energy sources, India Thursday approved a new policy that calls for blending at least 20 percent biofuels in diesel and petrol by 2017, apart from extending incentives to encourage its production in wastelands.“The policy endeavours to facilitate and ...
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• Soybean Checkoff, Clean Cities Promote Biodiesel

  
  Biofuel Blog War — Authority: 130
  A group that promotes the use of soybeans and a program that works to reduce local petroleum consumption are partnering again to promote the use of soy biodiesel next year. This article from radio station KFGO in Fargo, ND-Moorhead, MN says the United Soybean Board’s soybean checkoff and the U.S. Department of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Baucus, Grassley Vow to Extend Biodiesel Tax Incentive

  
  Biofuel Blog War — Authority: 130
  Biodiesel producers have seen the last chance at renewing the federal biodiesel tax incentives before they expire at the end of the year slip away. But two key lawmakers have vowed the $1-a-gallon tax credit will be renewed, retroactively. Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Sen. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hawkeye Energy Files Bankruptcy

  
  Biofuel Blog War — Authority: 130
  Unfortunately, it looks as though another ethanol plant has filed for bankruptcy. Hawkeye Energy currently owns and operates ethanol plants in Iowa Falls and Fairbank, Iowa and has filed for reorganization and Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Hawkeye Energy Holdings CEO Bruce Rastetter said, “The U.S. biofuels industry is ...
  2 weeks ago

• South Texas Getting First Biodiesel Terminal

  
  Biofuel Blog War — Authority: 130
  A company that says it is “introducing biodiesel to the petroeum industry” has announced the first biodiesel terminal in South Texas. This press release posted on EarthTimes.org says Gulf Hydrocarbon will offer biodiesel at the RTW Terminal in Brownsville: Gulf Hydrocarbon’s new terminal will offer ...
  2 weeks ago

• Canada to Test Year-Round Biodiesel

  
  Biofuel Blog War — Authority: 130
  The cold conditions of Canada will put biodiesel to the test as our friends north of the border take part in a year-long test of the green fuel. This story on the Canada Views Web site says the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) is getting more than $750,000 to see how well biodiesel will work in agricultural ...
  2 weeks ago

• Making Biodiesel and “Things”

  
  Biofuel Blog War — Authority: 130
  I found an interesting piece by Lyle Estill, a founder of Piedmont Biofuels … a Pittsboro, North Carolina-based maker of biodiesel and other “things.” Estill’s column in the Chapel Hill (NC) News is really good piece that not only talks about his little biodiesel company’s resilience in the face of a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nebraska Produces Record Amount of Ethanol

  
  Biofuel Blog War — Authority: 130
  Over 127 million gallons of ethanol was produced in the state of Nebraska in September; a record high for the state and an increase of 8.6% since 2008. According to a press release issued by the Nebraska Ethanol Board , Todd Sneller, administrator of the group said the increase in ethanol production proves ...
  2 weeks ago

• Grease Trap Waste Recycling Plant Begins Production

  
  Biofuel Blog War — Authority: 130
  Maybe there are some benefits of eating fast food. The first Grease Trap Waste recycling plant in Florida is now in production. Affordable Bio Feedstock, Inc. has developed a brown grease waste recycling plant which turns grease into biofuels. The plant is located in Kissimmee, Florida, also the company’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• RFA Applauds Restoration of Biofuel Loan Funds

  
  Biofuel Blog War — Authority: 130
  The biofuels industry received an early holiday present yesterday when the House of Representatives voted to restore $2 billion to the alternative loan guarantee program that was borrowed to fund the Cash for Clunkers program . However the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA), while pleased to see the funds returned, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Grassley Blasts Dems for Biodiesel Incentive Lapse

  
  Biofuel Blog War — Authority: 130
  Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa says Democrats seem to just paying lip service to the concept of green energy and green jobs. He took to the floor of the Senate this week to blast the Democratic leadership for what appears to be allowing the $1-a-gallon biodiesel tax incentive to expire at the end of this ...
  2 weeks ago

• Carbon Credit

  
  Dreamscapes — Authority: 119
  The current buzz/biz talk in the environment and global warming scenarios is the carbon credit/carbon offset values. Every household plays a part in leaving a carbon footprint into the environment which is calculated in tonnes/year. Not to ask the huge industries which are magnanimous in the amount of carbon ...
  2 weeks ago

• NBB: No Long-Term Biodiesel Tax Extension this Year

  
  Biofuel Blog War — Authority: 130
  The National Biodiesel Board seems to be conceding defeat for a long-term extension of the the biodiesel blender tax credit … but the group seems to be holding out hope for a one-year extension of the incentive set to expire after Dec. 31, 2009. The U.S. House has already passed the tax extender package in H.R. ...
  2 weeks ago

• CleanTech Biofuels, Inc. (CLTH.OB) Biomass Recovery Process Chosen for Project in Oklahoma

  
  The Quality Stocks Stock Newsletter For Smallcap Companies Blog — Authority: 150
  CleanTech Biofuels Inc. is an early-stage company capable of converting municipal solid waste into cellulose, a high-quality fuel that can serve as a feedstock to make other fuels. The biomass can be co-fired with coal to produce electricity. It is also an ideal feedstock for producing syngas or biofuels. By using ...
  2 weeks ago

• Speedling & Mendel to Commercialize Miscanthus

  
  Biofuel Blog War — Authority: 130
  Miscanthus appears to be the hot feedstock for December. Last week, Sunbelt Biofuels announced that it will be licensing Freedom Giant Miscanthus, and today, Speedling Incorporated and Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. announced an agreement to work together to research, develop and commercialize a “cost-effective ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Jersey Station Celebrates Anniversary of Biodiesel

  
  Biofuel Blog War — Authority: 130
  The first commercial service station in New Jersey that offered biodiesel is celebrating the first anniversary of that historic event. As you might remember from my post last year , it was an early Christmas present for the area around Maplewood, New Jersey as Woolley Fuel became the first in the state to offer ...
  3 weeks ago

• Audi Tells Obama, “Forget Plug-Ins, Think Biodiesel”

  
  Biofuel Blog War — Authority: 130
  The top executive at Audi’s U.S. offices says American political leaders need to think less about plug-in electric vehicles and more about vehicles that run on biodiesel, as well as standardizing the rules for biodiesel. The Detroit News reports that Audi of America President Johan de Nysschen made the remarks at ...
  3 weeks ago

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