Is Vegetable Oil Biodiesel on the Right Track?
US - Want to fill up your Volkswagen or Hummer on renewables, as Arnold Schwarzenegger does? Biodiesel, a vegetable-oil based variant on petroleum diesel, is your fuel.

MSU to Create Genomic Clearinghouse for Biofuel Crops
US - Michigan State University scientists, armed with a half-million-dollar federal grant, are creating an easily accessible, Web-based genomic database of information on crops that...

Alliance for Abundant Food and Energy Established
US - Leaders from across the agriculture value chain have joined together to form the Alliance for Abundant Food and Energy

Clean Energy Cheaper, Safer, Quicker than Nuclear Power
US - Clean energy technologies are likely to be cheaper, safer and more reliable than a proposed nuclear reactor at Calvert Cliffs according to a new Maryland Public Interest Research...

Schafer Renews Faith in Renewable Biofuels
US – The US Agricultural Secretary, ED Schafer, has said that he will push on with the biofuels policy after renewing his faith in their benefits. Speaking at the American Farm...

Reducing the Impact Of Biomass Harvest
US - Ground cover may be one workable method to reduce the effects of erosion that future biomass harvests are predicted to bring. Iowa State University researchers are looking at ways...

Algae Holds Promise as Biofuel
US - Algae - the stuff that clouds swimming pools, mucks up ponds and clings to boat sides and buoys - can produce more than 2,000 gallons of oil per acre a year.

BP Acquires Energy Power Plant in Indiana
US - BP Alternative Energy today announced that it has acquired the Whiting Clean Energy facility, a 525 megawatt (MW) natural-gas fired combined-cycle cogeneration power plant located...

Study: Abandoned Farms and Biofuels
US - A report published this week by some researchers at Stanford is causing quite a stir in the world of biofuels. The scientists used a computer model to answer this question:...

Ocean Algae Has Potential as a Sustainable Energy Source
US - Research by two Kansas State University scientists could help with the large-scale cultivation and manufacturing of oil-rich algae in oceans for biofuel.

Abandoned Farmlands - The Key to Sustainable Energy
US - Biofuels can be a sustainable part of the world's energy future, especially if bioenergy agriculture is developed on currently abandoned or degraded agricultural lands, report...

Tips for Late Soybean Replanting
KANSAS - Where soybean stands have been devastated by hailstorms, drowning, or some other factor, producers may be thinking about replanting, said Kraig Roozeboom, K-State Research...

"Power Plants" Exhibit Opens at National Arboretum
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A living outdoor exhibit showcasing a range of existing and potential bioenergy crops opens on June 21 at the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, D.C.

USDA Fund Fuels Renewable Energy Projects
WASHINGTON, US - Agriculture Deputy Secretary Chuck Conner announced today that 20 individuals and businesses in six states have been selected to receive $1.52 million in loans...

Biomass Cogeneration Facility to be Installed
US - Two premier US companies (both paper manufacturing companies) are coming up with biomass strategies in an attempt to achieve carbon neutrality.