EcoEarth.Info Environment News and Archives
Non-profit
environment
news links & archives provided on these terms to help find solutions & for posterity
News Home |
| Disclaimer & Conditions for Use
5/5/2013
Faced with a crop of lemons — too much
ethanol, a population of cars not tuned to burn it effectively and a driving public leery of the fuel’s properties — the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to make lemonade.The effort to ...
21/4/2013
The battle between U.S.
ethanol producers and oil companies has reached a turning point, with the winners poised to gain an advantage over the future of the country’s energy mix and the losers forced to cede profits and jobs to their bitter ...
9/4/2013
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has consistently over-estimated the prospects for production of advanced biofuels from non-food crops, adding to the impression of a biofuel policy that is out of step with reality.
The U.S. ...
3/4/2013
After getting slammed last summer,
ethanol producers are hoping to catch a break--but their fate is far from settled.
Bill Pracht has bad memories of last summer. "The drought was so bad here that the corn was just decimated," he recalls ...
1/4/2013
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could soon issue a final ruling that aims to force oil companies to replace E10, gasoline mixed with 10 percent
ethanol, with E15.
This move could come just as widespread support for
ethanol, ...
23/2/2013
Corn based
ethanol makes up 10% of the fuel mix in the US and
EPA has approved a 15% mix. But last year 20
ethanol producers closed up shop. Wallace Tyner, an energy economist at Purdue University explains to host Steve Curwood why small
ethanol ...
30/1/2013
A study released today showing fuel containing 15 percent
ethanol could damage a "substantial" number of cars on the road underscores the need to repeal federal biofuel mandates, according to the oil industry.
The study conducted by the ...
28/1/2013
The US biofuel industry is facing uncertainty over its future policy landscape, after a court ruling on Friday effectively scrapped a 2012 target governing the use of second generation cellulosic biofuel.
The D.C Circuit Court upheld a ...
24/12/2012
In coming days, the Environmental Protection Agency’s to-do list will include setting a standard for the amount of advanced biofuels that refiners will be required to
blend into gasoline and diesel supplies in 2013. The question is tricky because ...
30/11/2012
Leading road travel group AAA on Friday called on the U.S. government to suspend the sale of gasoline with a higher
blend of
ethanol fuel, the latest opposition against increasing the use of biofuels in transport.
A lack of public ...
5/9/2012
Before the U.S. biofuels boom took off in 2007, the food vs. fuel debate raged: can we afford to use corn for
ethanol in a starving world?
Five years later, farm bankers ask: can we afford not to?
"Ethanol demand is the linchpin ...
20/8/2012
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday said it has begun weighing requests to suspend the U.S.
ethanol mandate, which requires refiners to
blend ethanol into gasoline, and is seeking public feedback.
The governors of North ...
17/8/2012
A U.S. appeals court upheld government approval for a higher
blend of corn
ethanol into gasoline on Friday in a ruling that may help the biofuels industry in the longer term but have little immediate impact on sales.
In a 2-1 ruling, the ...
16/8/2012
Experts working on a food security report for the United Nations warn climate change will cause disruptions to global food supplies beyond the U.S. drought this year, according to Reuters.
The researchers note in a forthcoming chapter ...
28/7/2012
The U.S.
ethanol industry's efforts to win public support for putting more corn-based fuel in gasoline has run into a fierce, unmovable enemy.
Horrible weather.
A withering Midwestern drought has reignited the debate over "food ...
18/7/2012
Oppressive heat and a worsening drought in the Midwest pushed grain prices near or past records on Wednesday as crops wilted, cities baked and concerns grew about food and fuel price inflation in the world's top food exporter.
Soybean ...
13/7/2012
As I write in The Times, this week a gas station operator in Lawrence, Kan., just west of Kansas City, became the first in the nation to offer e15, the 15 percent
ethanol blend that was approved in 2010 for some cars by the Environmental ...
12/7/2012
Intended as an additive to gasoline,
ethanol in modern times was meant to stretch America’s fuel supplies, much as a cook uses chicken stock to increase the volume of a soup. By federal mandate,
ethanol makes up about 10 percent of most fuel that ...
2/7/2012
Big oil and natural gas companies vastly outspend and outman the renewable fuels industry on Capitol Hill, but the general gridlock in Washington gives advocates of wind,
ethanol and other new-age sources an edge in the growing battle to overhaul ...
16/6/2012
A surge in domestic oil and natural gas production and a decline in national political support for grain-fed biofuels threatens to cripple Iowa’s more than $20 billion renewable energy industry just as it has matured into a major force in the ...
18/5/2012
After a decade of promise, advanced biofuels makers are entering a crucial make-or-break period with the first of a new generation of production facilities about to come on line.
The new facilities are designed to take biofuels beyond ...
16/5/2012
The auto and oil industries plan to release a report on Wednesday indicating that some cars running on E15, the 15 percent
ethanol blend that was recently authorized by the Environmental Protection Agency, experienced engine damage.
But ...
28/4/2012
This isn't just a bit of environmental trivia. There's a fierce battle in the United States over whether the Environmental Protection Agency should allow more diesel made from palm oil to be used by U.S. refineries. Agribusiness groups are ...
2/4/2012
Twenty companies, including Archer-Daniels-Midland Co and Cargill Inc, have been cleared to produce the new
ethanol grade called E15, a significant step toward putting the higher
blend biofuel on sale, the government announced on ...
10/1/2012
When the companies that supply motor fuel close the books on 2011, they will pay about $6.8 million in penalties to the Treasury because they failed to mix a special type of biofuel into their gasoline and diesel as required by law.But ...