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Gas Grills Found to be More Environmentally Friendly Than Charcoal Fired Barbecues

Do biofuels always create smaller carbon footprints than their fossil-fuel competitors? Not necessarily, a new report shows the carbon footprint for charcoal grilling is almost three times as large as that for LPG grilling

12 May 2009

Corporate America to Benefit From New Degree Delivering Skilled Green Collar Job Prospects

The University of Wisconsin-Extension is charging into the green collar job field with a bold new degree: the nation’s first online Sustainable Management bachelor's degree

12 May 2009

RFA Responds to TIME Magazine Article Against Biofuels

In the Renewable Fuels Association’s ongoing effort to let no unsubstantiated claim about ethanol and America’s renewable fuels industry go unanswered, RFA President and CEO Bob Dinneen sent the following letter to the editors of Time Magazine, once again objecting to the unbalanced and factually inaccurate reporting/editorializing on biofuels by Michael Grunwald

12 May 2009

Rentech to Make Renewable Synthetic Diesel and Green Electric Power Using Urban Waste

Rentech, Inc. (NYSE AMEX: RTK) announced today a plan to build a plant in Rialto, California for the production of ultra-clean synthetic fuels and electric power from renewable waste biomass feedstocks

12 May 2009

Caltech To Get Energy Frontier Research Center

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has announced that it will fund the creation of 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) over the next five years, including one that will be housed at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

11 May 2009

Maximum Efficiency Comes From Bioelectricity Not Ethanol For Powering Vehicles

How can we maximize our "miles per acre" from biomass? Researchers writing in the online edition of the May 7 Science magazine say the best bet is to convert the biomass to electricity, rather than ethanol

10 May 2009

Turning Biomass Into Electricity More Efficient Than Using Ethanol for Vehicles

A new study suggests that biomass used to generate electricity could be more efficient than converting the biomass to ethanol for internal combustion engines

10 May 2009

Major Cellulosic Biofuel Technology Breakthrough from Mascoma

Mascoma Corporation today announced that the company has made major research advances in consolidated bioprocessing, or CBP, a low-cost processing strategy for production of biofuels from cellulosic biomass. CBP avoids the need for the costly production of cellulase enzymes by using engineered microorganisms that produce cellulases and ethanol at high yield in a single step

10 May 2009

Corn Growers Call For Recognition of Importance of Corn Ethanol in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) urged policymakers in our nation's capital to acknowledge the benefits of corn ethanol in helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

10 May 2009

Climate Friendly Biofuels Launched Based on Lignocellulosic Biomass

Süd-Chemie AG, a leading manufacturers of catalysts and adsorbents, and The Linde Group, a leading global company in the sector of gases and engineering, have launched the production of climate-friendly biofuels based on lignocellulosic biomass in Munich

7 May 2009