Archive for the 'Ethanol' Category
Ethanol-Powered Vehicles Generate More Ozone Than Gas-Powered Ones
Posted on December 14, 2009 - Filed Under Ethanol | Leave a Comment
Ethanol – often promoted as a clean-burning, renewable fuel that could help wean the nation from oil — would likely worsen health problems caused by ozone, compared with gasoline, especially in winter, according to a new study led by Stanford researchers.
Ozone production from both gasoline and E85, a blend of gasoline and ethanol that is [...]
House panel: EPA Can Gauge Ethanol Impact Abroad
Posted on June 25, 2009 - Filed Under Ethanol | Leave a Comment
By a one-vote margin, a U.S. House committee decided not to intervene in federal regulations that could hold U.S. ethanol makers responsible for greenhouse gases from crops overseas.
The Appropriations Committee defeated, 29-30, an amendment to bar the Environmental Protection Agency from using so-called indirect land-use change when measuring greenhouse gases from biofuels. It voted later [...]
Watermelons Tapped For Ethanol
Posted on May 24, 2009 - Filed Under Ethanol | Leave a Comment
With their sweet, refreshing juices and succulent interior, watermelons are a favorite summertime treat, especially around July 4th. But now this Independence Day favorite could become even more of a patriotic commodity.
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) studies in Lane, Okla., have shown that simple sugars in watermelon juice can be made into ethanol. In 2007, growers [...]
Critics Find Flaws in the Case Made by Ethanol Advocates
Posted on May 9, 2009 - Filed Under Ethanol, Renewable Energy | Leave a Comment
WHEN a trade group for the ethanol industry asked the Environmental Protection Agency to raise the permissible amount of ethanol in gasoline to 15 percent from 10 percent, it supported the request with a series of studies.
But others concerned about such an increase say that not only is more research needed, but that some claims [...]
EPA Tough on Ethanol, Tougher on Biodiesel
Posted on May 7, 2009 - Filed Under Biodiesel, Ethanol | Leave a Comment
Proposed rules released by the Environmental Protection Agency this have the potential to keep new ethanol plants from selling into a government mandated market. But the biodiesel industry could fare even worse.
Members of the biofuels industry testified before the House Agriculture Committee’s subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy and Research. Manning Feraci of the National Biodiesel [...]
President Obama Faces Test on Ethanol
Posted on May 4, 2009 - Filed Under Ethanol | Leave a Comment
President Barack Obama’s commitment to take on climate change and put science over politics is about to be tested as his administration faces a politically sensitive question about the widespread use of ethanol: Does it help or hurt the fight against global warming?
The Environmental Protection Agency is close to proposing ethanol standards. But two years [...]
California Fuel Move Angers Ethanol Makers
Posted on April 26, 2009 - Filed Under Ethanol | Leave a Comment
Ethanol producers reacted with dismay to California’s approval of the nation’s first low-carbon fuel standard, which will require the state’s mix of fuels to be 10 percent lower in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
In a 9-1 vote the state’s Air Resources Board approved the measure.
“The drive to force the market toward greater use of alternative [...]
Barack Obama Says No Quick End to Ethanol Dispute
Posted on March 15, 2009 - Filed Under Ethanol | Leave a Comment
Barack Obama said there would be no quick resolution to a dispute with Brazil over restricting ethanol imports to the US, following his first meeting with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
The Brazilian president, in his first visit to Washington since Mr Obama took office, said it was wrong for the US continued to levy [...]
Honda to Speed up Bio-Ethanol Commercialization
Posted on March 15, 2009 - Filed Under Environmental Friendly, Environmentally clean, Ethanol, environment | Leave a Comment
Good news for all the fans of Bio-Ethanol who have been itching to see car makers really jump on the bandwagon in order to see serious leaps forward. Honda Motors have decided to up investments in Bio-Ethanol and have put their money where their mouth is by building a new “research and development facility to [...]
