Lawsuit accused company of discharging hot water, which can dissolve oxygen and stress fish, as well as other aquatic ...

University of Missouri researchers have genetically engineered plants to produce more oil and protein, paving the way for more efficient, sustainable biofuels that don't compete with food crops. A ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday granted ⁠small ⁠refinery exemptions worth 1.76 billion renewable fuel ...

That's because inside the plant, a complex network of metabolic pathways turns sunlight, carbon dioxide (or atmospheric carbon), water and nutrients into vital compounds including oil, the ...

Plant cell wall components such as cellulose are abundant sources of carbohydrates that are widely used in biofuels and bioproducts; however, extraction of these components from plant biomass is ...

Biofuel from plants could be a solution to the looming depletion of cheap oil, but making it out of food crops poses problems that are brought into sharp resolve by the current food crisis. One way ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Jump Start cut the ribbon Thursday on a new blending facility in Butler County. The biofuel facility in Potwin converts soybean oil into biodiesel and biogas. The group behind ...

Arabidopsis may seem like a simple plant, but at the University of Missouri, plant biochemist Jay Thelen is using it as a powerful model to explore ways to boost oil production — an important step ...

A Pekin ethanol plant will pay fines and fund wetland restoration after a long battle over river pollution.

Troubled biofuels maker Green Plains Inc. has pledged the bulk of its ethanol plants as collateral to funds managed by BlackRock Inc. in exchange for more time to repay nearly $128 million in debt.

(The Center Square) – A draft permit approved for a Class VI well puts a company in northeast Louisiana a step away from the final approval required to build a wood-fired biofuels fuels energy plant ...