EU to Probe Biodiesel Shipments From U.S.
The European Union is preparing to investigate whether U.S. biodiesel producers are routing their product to Europe through third countries in order to avoid tariffs imposed on U.S. shipments last year, according to documents reviewed Friday.
( July 31, 2010)

New bills offer hope for biodiesel tax credit
The latest chance for a biodiesel tax credit extension, H.R. 4213 or the Unemployment Extension Act of 2010, passed without the biodiesel tax credit extension included.
( July 28, 2010)

Australia probes U.S. biodiesel dumping
Australia is investigating complaints of U.S. dumping of biodiesel on the domestic market,the nation's customs agency said on Tuesday, a move that could see Canberra follow Europe in imposing antidumping duties.
( July 26, 2010)

Report sees need for 500 additional biofuels plants
More than 500 new biorefineries will be needed around the country to meet the nation's goal of tripling biofuel consumption by 2022, according to a government study.
( June 14, 2010)

Harry Reid: Extenders bill will pass
Senate Democratic leaders on Tuesday expressed confidence they can pass the tax extenders bill through their chamber next week.
( June 8, 2010)

Revised Bill Keeps Biodiesel Break
New Senate language for a mammoth jobs and tax bill, released on Tuesday, retains a proposed one-year revival of the $1 a gallon tax credit for biodiesel, said Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus.
( June 8, 2010)

National Biodiesel tax credit extension - video
National Biodiesel Board CEO, Joe Jobe, addresses biodiesel stakeholders regarding the urgency of the biodiesel tax credit extension.
( April 21, 2010)

America will have trouble meeting its ambitious goals for biofuels
The renewable-fuel standard released in February by America’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) paints an ambitious picture of biofuels’ future.
( March 25, 2010)

Senators Propose Extension of Biodiesel Tax Credit
Two U.S. senators proposed extending the $1-a-gallon tax credit for biodiesel for a year, a move that the industry said is needed to revive production of the fuel.
( February 11, 2010)

EPA Finalizes Regulations for the National Renewable Fuel Standard Program
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing revisions to the National Renewable Fuel Standard program (commonly known as the RFS program) for 2010 and beyond.
( February 3, 2010)

Ethanol Recovery Faces Oversupply Repeat
With ethanol margins staging a recovery this year, it was only a matter of time before producers were encouraged to restart idled facilities and expand output to join the bonanza.
(December 21, 2009)

Biodiesel tax credit in danger of lapsing
A tough year for the biodiesel industry is ending in uncertainty about the future of its government subsidy.
(December 17, 2009)

Rise in Cost of Energy Drives Up Margins; Support for Depressed Corn Prices
Renewed life in the ethanol industry is drawing the attention of Chicago Board of Trade traders and analysts, giving the corn market a boost.
(October 12, 2009)

U.S. Tax Breaks Subsidize Foreign Oil Production
The largest U.S subsidies to fossil fuels are attributed to tax breaks that aid foreign oil production, according to research to be released on Friday by the Environmental Law Institute in partnership with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
(September 18, 2009)

War-Time Fungus Joins Elephant Dung to Make Biofuels
When the U.S. Army fought in the Pacific during World War II, it discovered a fungus eating soldiers’ cotton tents. Six decades later, scientists have genetically engineered the organism to make cheaper biofuels.
(June 22, 2009)

Big Oil Warms to Ethanol and Biofuel Companies
The interest expressed by big oil companies is coming in the nick of time for small companies that desperately need capital and cannot find it these days in the private markets.
(May 26, 2009)

Obama, Silva discuss biofuels and US-Brazil ties
President Barack Obama and Brazil's president had their first leader-to-leader conversation Monday, spending 25 minutes discussing issues ranging from biofuels to the global financial crisis.
(January 26, 2009)

OPEC Races to Get Ahead of Declining Oil Demand
The world's big crude-oil exporters are caught in a downward race against falling demand as they scramble to keep prices from slipping still lower in the face of a weakening world economy.
(December 15, 2008)

Kinder Morgan Now Shipping Ethanol in Central Florida
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, a pipeline operator based in Houston, is now transporting commercial batches of denatured ethanol along with gasoline shipments in its 16-inch Central Florida Pipeline.
(December 2, 2008)

Oil Majors Cut Back on New Wells as Prices Fall
Petro-Canada's decision to scrap a big oil-sands project is the latest among 17 energy projects put on hold or canceled due to plunging oil prices.
(November 26, 2008)

The biofuels of the future will be tailor-made
Amyris is going into partnership with Crystalsev, a Brazilian firm, to make car fuel out of cane sugar. Not ethanol (though Brazil already has a thriving market for ethanol-powered cars), but a hydrocarbon that has the characteristics of diesel fuel.
(June 19, 2008)

Cutting Ethanol Production Would Increase Gasoline Prices
In testimony before Congress, the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) today identified the growth of ethanol production as a major factor in keeping gasoline prices lower than they otherwise would be.
(May 22, 2008)

Ethanol’s “Sobering” Impact on Oil
Biofuels have become an essential component of the world’s motor fuel supply, according to the International Energy Administration (IEA). In a just released report, IEA estimates that biofuels will account for nearly two-thirds of the non-OPEC oil supply growth this year, a “sobering” amount of the fuel supply.
(May 22, 2008)

Analysis of the Efficiency of the U.S. Ethanol Industry 2007
The survey covers plant operations in both corn dry mills and wet mills. In particular, it includes plant type, ownership structure, capacity, feedstocks, production volumes, coproducts, process fuel and electricity usage, water consumption, and products transportation and distribution.
(May 22, 2008)

Biting the hand that feeds you doesn’t sit well with farmers
The world has learned this week who is behind a multimillion dollar “aggressive” campaign to roll back ethanol mandates and shift the blame of higher food prices onto the backs of the American farmer instead of where most of the blame rightly belongs: higher energy costs..
(May 15, 2008)

What's Right with Biofuels
Recent hand-wringing about the costs associated with ethanol and other biofuels overlooks the urgency of finding alternatives to petroleum.
(May 8, 2008)

The Oil Nonbubble
“The Oil Bubble: Set to Burst?” That was the headline of an October 2004 article in National Review, which argued that oil prices, then $50 a barrel, would soon collapse.
(May 12, 2008)

Ethanol Fights Back
Everyone is blaming ethanol for everything. Producers have gone from being heroes to zeroes. On Friday, I have three stories you can see here, showing what it's like to be in that industry now.
(May 9, 2008)

Brazil Aims to Lift Oil Levies
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Following news of another offshore oil find, Brazil's government is likely to join other countries that have used high oil prices as an opportunity to raise the revenues they get from the oil industry.
(April 18, 2008)

A Global Need for Grain That Farms Can’t Fill
Wheat prices have doubled in the last six months. Corn is on a tear. Barley, sunflower seeds, canola and soybeans are all up sharply.
(March 9, 2008)

Tenaska BioFuels Acquisition Will Enhance Company Capabilities
Tenaska BioFuels, LLC (TBF) of Omaha has acquired the business of Edible Oil Marketing, LLC (EOM), an Omaha-based biodiesel and vegetable oil marketing and trading company.
(March 5, 2008)

Dave Weber: New York Giants Superfan
(February 6, 2008)

Future Farmer
History records that previous commodity booms were not followed by mass starvation, resource wars and the end of civilization. John Atkin is out to make sure it doesn't happen again.
(January 30, 2008)

Bodman: An End to Ethanol Tariffs?
Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman raised eyebrows with tantalizing comments about U.S. ethanol policy and a troubled carbon-capture project.
(January 29, 2008)

Oil Officials See Limit Looming on Production
The world is approaching a practical limit to the number of barrels of crude oil that can be pumped every day.
(November 19, 2007)

Renewable Fuel Standard Program
The Renewable Fuel Standard took effect Saturday, September 1, 2007.
(August 30, 2007)

Ethanol: Now Powering The IndyCar Series
In what's been called "the most significant fuel change in recent history," the IndyCar® Series will be the first in auto racing to power its cars with 100 percent fuel-grade ethanol.
(June 2007)