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9/4/2013
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has consistently over-estimated the prospects for production of advanced
biofuels from non-food crops, adding to the impression of a
biofuel policy that is out of step with reality.
The U.S. ...
12/3/2013
Developers of second generation
biofuels made from non-food crops and waste material are on track to deliver fuels that are cost-competitive with
ethanol and conventional fossil fuels by the second half of this decade.
That is the ...
20/2/2013
A new plant is rising from the fields around Emmetsburg, Iowa--one that will ferment into
ethanol the cobs, stems and husks of
corn from nearly 50,000 hectares of farmland. Such cellulosic
ethanol offers a way to get the energy and environmental ...
15/2/2013
Following a promising start, Brazil`s dream of positioning
ethanol in the global market on an equal standing with petroleum-based fuels is hindered by new and old challenges.
Brazil`s goal of expanding
ethanol sales across the world will ...
1/2/2013
New
biofuel requirements proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are being met with concern by a spectrum of interest groups from environmentalists to the oil industry, with some warning that a gap between the proposal and ...
28/1/2013
The US
biofuel industry is facing uncertainty over its future policy landscape, after a court ruling on Friday effectively scrapped a 2012 target governing the use of second generation cellulosic
biofuel.
The D.C Circuit Court upheld a ...
16/1/2013
A mix of perennial grasses and herbs might offer the best chance for the U.S. to produce a sustainable
biofuel, according to the results of a new study. But making that dream a reality could harm local environments and would require developing ...
24/12/2012
In coming days, the Environmental Protection Agency’s to-do list will include setting a standard for the amount of advanced
biofuels that refiners will be required to blend into gasoline and diesel supplies in 2013. The question is tricky because ...
27/11/2012
“A new moment for mankind.” That was how Brazil’s former president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, described his country’s
biofuel boom in March 2007. Back then, Brazil was the poster child of
ethanol fuel, its output second only to that of the ...
19/11/2012
Scientists around the world have been looking for ways to replace petroleum with alternatives that could prove, cleaner, renewable and, if possible, cheaper.
No, you can’t simply pump the green scum that forms on your swimming pool into ...
13/10/2012
Andrew Watts, 52, is looking nervously at the darkening sky. We are standing at the edge of a field, where his new red-and-yellow seed drill is sowing wheat at an impressive clip. The vast machine can cover six hectares (15 acres) an hour but it ...
11/10/2012
Growing use of U.S.-produced
corn for
biofuel has added $6.6 billion to the
food import bills of developing countries over the past six years, highlighting the need to rethink energy policies that are making
food more expensive for poor people, ...
5/10/2012
'It's possibly,' someone remarked to me this week, "one of the worst things ever to come out of Brussels.' Quite a condemnation, everything considered -- and all the more so for coming from an Action Aid campaigner against poverty and climate ...
4/10/2012
If the Obama administration relaxes the requirement to use
corn-based
ethanol in gasoline, the benefits would arrive a year later, with more
corn available at lower cost for livestock feed and lower
ethanol production, said a think tank on ...
16/9/2012
Motorists will unwittingly subsidise a move to ensure 10 per cent of transport energy comes from renewable sources.
Biofuel is largely mixed in with diesel or petrol sold at the pumps, but because the target will cause the cost of ...
14/9/2012
After years at each other's throats, Brazil and the United States are working together to promote the use of
ethanol in a collaboration that could revolutionize global markets and the makeup of the
biofuel itself.
The breakthrough came ...
6/9/2012
Ethanol has been good to Galva, Iowa. This kernel of a community has grown almost 20 percent since the 2000 census, to 434 people-a growth spurt that locals attribute to a new golden age for
corn and their very own
ethanol plant, which opened in ...
5/9/2012
Coverage of the US drought and the run-up in
corn, soybean, and wheat prices has been extensive and welcome. It has also been prone to the repetition of falsehoods and the perpetuation of myths about the causes of the
food crisis – and the ...
31/8/2012
The shepherds of Germany are worried. There are still about 2,000 of them tending sheep on grasslands, plying their ancient trade and defying time and the intrusions of modernity.
But it is a losing battle. The pastures they and the ...
30/8/2012
Standing outside the Central Minnesota
Ethanol Co-Op in Little Falls, Minn., there's not a lot going on. The pungent smell of fermentation that typically hangs in the air here is absent. And trucks piled high with
corn are nowhere to be ...
21/8/2012
From Congress to The Colbert Report, people are talking about the Midwestern drought and debating whether it makes sense to convert the country's shrinking
corn supplies into
ethanol to power our cars.
It's the latest installment of the ...
19/8/2012
The growing row over
biofuels is ready to flare up again with German researchers claiming to have found evidence that European-produced biodiesel does not meet the sustainability targets claimed by Brussels.
Two experts at Friedrich ...
17/8/2012
Three big intertwined but rival agribusinesses —
corn farmers, meat and poultry producers, and
biofuel refineries — are in a political fight to protect their interests as a drought ravages
corn producers and industrial consumers alike.At ...
15/8/2012
Drought-stricken crops and record-high grain prices have strengthened critics of the European Union
biofuel industry, adding fears of a
food crisis to their claims that it does not ultimately reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
The renewed ...
10/8/2012
Global pressure on the United States to relax its
ethanol quota mounted on Thursday as the top United Nations
food official said an "immediate, temporary suspension" of the mandate could help head off another world
food crisis.
As the ...