Month: December 2010

Researchers have engineered a strain of yeast that simultaneously consumes two sugars found in plants, a process that could make biofuel production faster, cheaper and more efficient. The researchers tweaked Saccharomyces...

An appeals court rejected a challenge today by petroleum industry groups to U.S. EPA’s biodiesel blending requirements, in a move affirming the agency’s implementation of the renewable fuel standard (RFS2). [ad] A...

An EU-funded collaboration between universities and industry in Europe, Israel and the US is working to develop new engines, combustion technologies and fuels that will allow a substantial increase in the use of bioethanol in an...

Although the Obama administration slowed U.S. efforts on biofuels in favor of electric vehicles, a new report card on the renewable fuels industry shows that ethanol and biodiesel are delivering tangible economic and...

Europe’s green fudge over biofuels is set to continue for another six months after an official report out today acknowledges growing biofuels can create carbon emissions. The European Commission’s Report on Indirect Land Use...