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The US Navy's 'Great Green Fleet' initiative sets the bar high for the biofuels industry in May's issue of Energy Digital. According to a release, this month, Energy Digital checks [...]

Bioenergy Life Science--The Ribose Company(TM)--has announced preliminary findings indicating that Bioenergy Ribose(TM) lessens fatigue among baby boomers. The results were presented at the Scripps Integrative Conference(1). Bioenergy Ribose consists of [...]

Indonesia has issued a ministerial decree making the use of biofuels mandatory from 2009, according to Energy Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro. Starting next year, a blend of 1% biodiesel and 99% [...]

Biofuels could make up 10% to15% of the future global fuels energy mix in the next 10-20 years, according to a new study released by Accenture. But reaching that level [...]

Biofuels are in the firing line as concerns grow about their contribution to rising food prices and their effect on the environment, casting doubt on plans to introduce the fuels [...]

U.S. Energy Information Agency's (EIA) just-revised 2008 Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) now sees biomass-to-liquids (BTL) fuel overtaking coal-to-liquids (CTL) fuel, thanks to the U.S. energy bill signed by President George [...]

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a report Tuesday criticizing the European Union (EU) for providing subsidies for biofuels as part of its plan to combat greenhouse [...]

Improving energy security in the US depends on raising efficiency, creating a diversity of energy sources and increasing the use of domestic supplies that are currently off limits, according to [...]

The European social partners in the woodworking industries, the European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW) and the European Confederation of Woodworking Industries (CEI-Bois), have said in a joint position [...]

On both sides of the Atlantic, the biofuel industry is booming as the EU and US pour billions into the sector in a bid to reduce the demand for foreign [...]

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping energy independence plan that aims to replace 50% of the oil used in the state with ethanol and biodiesel by [...]

BP and Chevron--no strangers to alternative fuels--dipped toes into the biofuels business this month, lending big name support and modest amounts of money to this suddenly popular energy niche. Outside [...]

At the end of this week, the aEuropean Commission will be wrapping up a public consultation on biofuels as a source of energy for the future and having another think [...]

Concessions for the construction of biomass generation plants producing up to 1,500MW may be included in Brazil's upcoming tender for new power generation concessions. The government had planned to tender [...]

Biofuels could displace up to 5pc of gasoline and diesel demand worldwide by 2010 if national policies are fully implemented, says the Paris-based IEA. Relatively low-cost sugar cane-to-ethanol processes alone [...]

Canada's ethanol industry wishes it was more like Brazil, where sugarcane is easily and efficiently converted to biofuel. For the complete story see: [...]

The new Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) targets are expected to impact production forecasts for cellulosic biofuel. Uncertain project funding and possible fraud charges against key producer Cello Energy could lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to adjust its RFS2 targets for cellulosic biofuel.

Global plantings of bioengineered crops grew by 13% last year, pushing the total area of cultivation past 100 million hectares, according the annual report by the International Service for the [...]

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) says critics of current biofuels policy underestimate the impact biotechnology will have in increasing yields of corn as well as producing ethanol from cellulose. The [...]

The development of biomass energy in the United States has been hampered by a variety of factors. A study by the Manomet Center for Conservation has questioned the 'carbon-neutral' nature of biomass energy. The US Environmental Protection Agency's new boiler rule is also seen to impact the development of biomass energy.