Ag Secretary Vilsack called on petroleum companies to help increase the percentage of ethanol in America's gas tanks to reduce dependence on foreign oil, boost job creation and promote development of renewable energy from farm-produced feedstocks.
Enerkem filed notice to withdraw its registration statement, effectively abandoning plans to pursue an IPO. A few days later, Iogen agreed to a new plan with its owners that will result 150 jobs lost and terminate plans for a biorefinery in Manitoba.
Solazyme and Dow announced they have entered into a contingent offtake agreement in which Dow has agreed to purchase from Solazyme all of its requirements of nonvegetable microbe-based oils for use in dielectric fluid applications through 2015.
Through the Nova Scotia CleanTech Open, SABRTEch Inc. has been awarded $100,000 in cash, a $200,000 negotiable seed investment, mentoring services and in-kind business building services through the program. The company will add three staff members.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted motions to allow several biofuel organizations to intervene and address issues that'll be raised during the lawsuit filed against the U.S. EPA by the API regarding 2012 RFS2 volume requirements.
The U.S. DOE recently announced selections for three consortia that will make up the $125 million U.S.-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center. The consortia will bring together U.S., Indian experts from labs, academia and industry.
Butamax, a leading global biobutanol technology development company, announced that two additional ethanol producers have joined its Early Adopters Group and have signed letters of intent to this effect. The EAG was founded in December last year.
White House gathering reaffirms Obama's support for advanced biofuels
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Repurposing tobacco for biofuels
University researcher designs efficient, sustainable biorefinery systems
UMass Amherst researchers improve output from catalytic pyrolysis process
Biobased nylon fiber may soon be found in clothes you're wearing
Purac positioned to become premier global supplier of biobased lactide monomers
The race is on to commercialize low-cost, high-quality sugars from nonfood sources
A new model developed by University of Illinois researchers can help increase biomass supply chain efficiencies
The plan represents a comprehensive approach to harnessing innovations in biological research to address national challenges in health, food, energy and the environment. The National Bioeconomy Blueprint describes five main objectives.
Neste Oil and Novozymes make headlines this week
A 180-degree turnaround happened today in Washington as the Senate ag committee passed an amendment offered by Sens. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and Dick Lugar, R-Ind., that would restore $800 million in mandatory funding to the Farm Bill energy title.
2012 Excellence in Bioenergy Award winner William Strauss shares a glimpse into his trip to a country that is light-years ahead of the U.S. in environmental policy
Shengquan Group, a Shandong-based company specializing in furan resin and polymers, and global enzyme maker Novozymes announced a partnership enabling Shengquan to start commercial-scale production of cellulosic ethanol for solvents in June 2012.
OriginOil Inc., developer of technology to convert algae into renewable crude oil, announced its algae harvesting process was able to remove 98 percent of hydrocarbons from a sample of West Texas oil well frac flowback water in the first stage alone.
College students pioneer algae research.
Scientists from Trillium FiberFuels and Oregon State U. were awarded a small business tech transfer grant from the U.S. DOE to further develop innovative enzymes that could lead to new products from biomass and enhanced yields of cellulosic ethanol.
Chemrec signed a cooperation agreement with China Tianchen Engineering Corp. to provide an integrated offering of Chemrec plants on a global lump-sum, turn-key basis and comarket the Chemrec black liquor gasification technology for advanced biofuels.
Cellulosic sugar developer Virdia announced the opening of its demonstration facility at its new technology center in Danville, Va. On the campus for the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, the facility will demonstrate its CASE process.
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