Renewable energy news

Chevron Lummus Global—a 50-50 joint venture of Chevron Products Co. and Lummus Technology—this week joined Applied Research Associates Inc.’s “ReadiJet Alternative Fuel Initiative,” a project aimed at developing the next...

In their latest assault against the Environmental Protection Agency and its approval of gasoline blended with 15 percent ethanol, oil and auto industry chief executives claimed Tuesday that a recently completed test program shows fueling even late model...

Republican members of the House Armed Services Committee for whom federal spending on energy from renewable sources is anathema are following last year’s pattern in attempting to use the annual defense funding authorization bill to severely restrict the...

Oil industry officials are pushing the debate over the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to approve use of 15 percent ethanol in gasoline, insisting that about half of the nation’s retail outlets are unequipped to dispense the higher...

In a significant development for the advanced biofuels industry, Emerald Biofuels LLC said Tuesday it is planning to build an 85 million gallon refinery on a Dow Chemical Co. operating site in Plaquemine, La., using Honeywell's UOP/Eni “EcoFining”...

A group of advanced biofuels associations joined by Airlines for America and the National Farm Bureau Federation is urging House and Senate leaders to back the Defense Department’s efforts to accelerate production of “drop-in” fuels for use...

In a major management shakeup announced just ahead the May 8 release of its first quarter earnings, would-be cellulosic biofuel producer Amyris Inc. said three members of its management team are leaving the company, which has seen stock prices tumble from a...

Accepting an award for advancing U.S. national security and economic growth through clean energy and environmental initiatives, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta boasted that the Department of Defense is “working to be a leader and a bold innovator in...

Denmark’s industrial bio-engineering giant Novozymes will participate and invest in the Maabjerg Energy Concept as a partner in the consortium that includes national energy major DONG Energy A/S and local Northwest Jutlandic utilities Vestforsyning A/S...

In a blow to Canada’s Iogen Energy Corp.—the company formed by Royal Dutch Shell and Ottawa-based Iogen Corp. to commercialize cellulosic ethanol—the oil giant said Monday it is pulling out of a joint project to develop a 23 million gallon...

Environmental groups are unanimously supportive of EPA’s pathway analyses finding that biofuels made from palm oil do not qualify under the Congressionally mandated Renewable Fuel Standard while, predictably, palm oil producers and their advocacy...

Co-sponsors of legislation to extend tax credits for wind and other renewable energy resources warned a House Ways and Means Committee panel Wednesday of the catastrophic consequences of not acting immediately to renew those incentives, as the subcommittee...

Following the Environmental Protection Agency’s determination that many motor fuels providers had bought millions of dollars of fraudulent, tradable federal permits from biofuel producers, the agency last week concluded administrative settlement...

In a decision that clears the way for California regulators to resume enforcement of the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit yesterday lifted a district court’s injunction against regulations that...

In a decision that clears the way for California regulators to resume enforcement of the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit yesterday lifted a district court’s injunction against regulations that...

In the first comprehensive test program for biojet fuel, UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, and Canada’s Agrisoma Biosciences Inc. said yesterday they will use Honeywell “Green Jet Fuel” made from a new bio-feedstock specifically designed for...

Responding forcefully to Congressional critics of the U.S. Navy’s energy initiatives and budget priorities, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus this week warned that reliance on fossil fuels is a military vulnerability that must be addressed and insisted that...

The Energy Department last week invited applicants for $15 million in funding to help companies, universities or laboratories develop biomass-based oil supplements that can be blended with traditional transportation fuels without modification to existing...

Fighting back against petroleum producers’ and refiners’ efforts to force the Environmental Protection Agency to waive retroactively the 2011 volumetric requirement for cellulosic biofuels under the Renewable Fuel Standard, trade associations...

Taking advantage of the opportunity afforded by a southwest region service-wide security exercise, the U.S. Navy has conducted its first major smart grid test to see how much local Navy and Marine Corps installations can reduce electrical consumption during a...