The final report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the 2009 corn harvest is one for the record books. Despite poor planting conditions, a cool, wet growing season, and an abysmal harvest that still sees corn standing in fields, American farmers shattered records for both yield per acre and total production. Read More.
It has been quiet for months now, but 2010 may finally be the year the Volney ethanol plant kicks into full operation. Read More.
The folks at the Renewable Fuels Association have put together updates for the Tom-Tom and Garmin GPS devices that can add E85 stations to these handy units. Read More.
For years, the only choices at the gasoline pump were regular, premium or mid-grade gasoline. A few years ago, some rural gas stations began carrying E85, an ethanol blend derived mostly from corn. Read More.
A Bellingham, Wash.-based company is bringing a new cellulosic biofuel technology to market. Whole Energy Fuels Corp. has received global, exclusive licensing rights to the technology, which converts biomass and other recycled material into liquid biofuels, from Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) Foundation at the University of North Dakota. Read More.
On Wednesday night, the House of Representatives voted to restore $2 billion to an alternative loan guarantee program that was borrowed to fund the cash for clunkers program. Read More.
A bipartisan coalition of members of Congress questions the Environmental Protection Agency's recent decision to delay increasing the ethanol blend wall in gasoline from 10 percent to 15 percent. Read More.
More than 300 people from across the Cape Fear region swarmed Raeford City Hall on Wednesday to compete for 41 jobs at the state's first ethanol plant. Read More.
The space at a the gas pump just got more crowded. Diesel and unleaded gasoline nozzles at Foothill Chevron have made room for a cleaner-burning relative - the E85. Read More.
A Visalia refinery has been awarded $20.4 million from the Department of Energy to develop a pilot plant that would boost ethanol yield from agricultural waste. Read More.
West Point has gotten a little greener. A new fueling location recently opened on the post offering two alternative fuels: an ethanol blend called E-85, and hydrogen. It's only for government-owned vehicles operated on the West Point property. Read More.
Grand opening ceremonies for two new Pearson Fuels E85 locations in California are planned for Dec. 16. At noon, a ribbon cutting ceremony will take place at Foothill Chevron in Pomona, followed by a similar ceremony at Joes 76 in Perris at 3 p.m. Read More.
The new "blender pump" at the Farmers Union Oil station at 418 State Avenue SW in Warroad has brought more than cleaner-burning fuel to the Minnesota town of 1,772 residents. It also brings a new claim to fame: the station is thought to be the northernmost of the more than 2,000 E85 retailers in the United States Read More.
A proposal by Chesapeake Renewable Energy LLC is close to winning a state approval that the project principal calls crucial to making an ethanol-producing biomass power plant a reality for Somerset County. Read More.
A northwest Iowa ethanol plant will be awarded the "outstanding business of the year" today by the Iowa Area Development Group. Read More.
