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Biofuels News

Biofuels

Biofuels

Biofuels are fuels produced from renewable organic material. Biofuel has the potential to reduce some undesirable aspects of fossil fuel production and use, including conventional and greenhouse gas pollutant emissions, exhaustible resource depletion and dependence on unstable foreign suppliers. Demand for biofuels could also increase farm income.
 
Unfortunately, biofuels have drawbacks as well, including land and water resource requirements, air and ground water pollution, and increased food costs, but even considering these negatives, they are generally favored by environmentalists. (Source: EPA, Photo: Flickr)

Articles about Biofuels

  • Understanding the complicated biofuels fight

    Mon, Jan 24 2011 at 3:38 PM

    Could this get any more confusing?

  • The great ethanol debate heads to the courts

    Wed, Jan 05 2011 at 1:48 PM

    One side says the EPA is overstepping its bounds, while some say it didn't go far enough.

  • Oil industry loses lawsuit against EPA on ethanol standard

    Wed, Dec 22 2010 at 9:31 AM

    EPA sued since it failed to set ethanol standards for the oil industry to meet by a predetermined date.

  • Senator seeks to cut ethanol credit to 36 cents

    Mon, Dec 13 2010 at 6:21 PM

    Proposed cuts attached to massive upcoming tax bill would reduce costs to taxpayers subsidizing ethanol credits.

  • U.S. corn ethanol 'was not a good policy,' Gore says

    Mon, Nov 22 2010 at 10:34 AM

    Former vice president says he changed his mind because the process to create the biofuel is so energy-intensive and because of raising crop prices.

  • Biofuel worse for climate than fossil fuel, new report finds

    Sun, Nov 07 2010 at 6:03 PM

    European biofuel use over the next decade will generate between 81 and 167 percent more carbon dioxide than fossil fuels.

  • Chicken manure will provide energy for English town

    Thu, Oct 28 2010 at 9:52 PM

    Biogas power station will convert chicken poo to power for about 350 homes.

  • Cane ethanol leader Brazil considers using corn

    Wed, Oct 27 2010 at 6:06 PM

    Shift toward corn ethanol stems from desire to help citizens with little access to cane ethanol.

  • Enzyme may help unlock biofuels from tree, plant waste

    Thu, Oct 07 2010 at 2:44 PM

    Scientists found an enzyme that helps break down chitin, a stiff material similar to woody cellulose that is found in the skeletons of crustaceans.

  • Planet Pundit: Is algae as green as it seems?

    Sun, Oct 03 2010 at 2:03 PM

    Richard Branson, Unilever, and the Navy have all put their money behind a revolutionary fuel company, but are the company's green claims overly optimistic?

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