Cellulosic Biofuel: Let The Dribble Begin!

Columbus, Miss., plant (image via KiOR)

In Mississippi, KiOR is making and shipping diesel fuel made from pine wood chips that previously fed a now-shuttered paper mill." Read more →

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Court Tells EPA To Get Real On Cellulosic Biofuels

Sorghum is one of the bifuel feedstocks promoted by U.S. policy (image via Wikimedia Commons/Matt Lavin)

A court ruling could limit the Obama administration's ability to use the renewable fuel standard to spur investment in nonfood-feedstock biofuels. Read more →

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Marginal Lands Could Curtail Food vs. Fuel Fight

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Researchers see “huge untapped resource" growing mixed species cellulosic biomass on marginal lands. Read more →

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DOE Pushes For Truly Sustainable Biofuels

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Five projects get $10 million to develop techniques to convert biomass into processable sugars that can made into bioproducts and drop-in biofuels for cars, trucks and planes. Read more →

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Biofuels A Winner In Fiscal Cliff Deal, Too

image via Propel Fuels

The wind power industry wasn’t the only renewable energy winner in the fiscal cliff deal that cleared Congress late Tuesday – biofuels also scored. Read more →

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Cheap Cellulosic Biofuels Targeted In NREL Hook-Up

Recently opened KiOR biofuels plant in Mississippi, which uses pine woody biomass as a feedstock (image via KiOR)

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory and specialty chemicals company Johnson Matthey say they'll work together on slashing the cost of nonfood-based biofuels. Read more →

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Big Cellulosic Ethanol Bone Tossed To Oregon

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The struggling U.S. cellulosic ethanol industry gets a boost–a $232.5 million loan guarantee for an Oregon plant that will use ag waste and woody biomass. Read more →

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Can CoolPlanet Save Cellulosic Biofuels (And Earth)?

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Cellulosic ethanol has struggled, but CoolPlanet BioFuels has several high-profile investors, including newcomer BP, and a concept it says is carbon negative. Read more →

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It’s Time To Move Past Ethanol

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It's time, argues EarthTechling columnist Pete Danko, to accept the growing scientific consensus and abandon our wasteful pursuit of ethanol fuels. Read more →

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2012 Fuel Standards Shirk Cellulosic Biofuels

The EPA's 2012 Renewable Fuel Standards indicate that the amount of cellulosic biofuels in the U.S. fuel mix will once again fall short of original projections. Read more →

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