One of the main criticisms about biofuels is that they occupy fields that should be dedicated to growing food for humans. That makes second-generation biofuels very attractive: they can use biomass as ...

Everyone in Kibwezi, a village in southeastern Kenya parched by four years of drought, remembers the promises. It all started in 2000, when the government started preaching the word about a plant ...

Darling Ingredients Inc., a major U.S. producer of renewable diesel, defended imports of used cooking oil (UCO) as a feedstock to produce biofuels. An increase in UCO shipments from China has stirred ...

A renowned bioenergy pioneer said Tuesday that production of corn-based ethanol doesn't result in as much net energy as production of other biofuels. Jay Keasling, CEO of the Joint BioEnergy Institute ...

Etlas aims to produce one million metric tonnes of feedstock per year by the mid-2030s, which could produce over 800 thousand ...

Biofuel producers are hopeful that hard-to-electrify transportation like aviation, rail and marine will spur new demand growth. But there’s another sector the industry's eyed for decades that's ...

Richard Palmer of Global Clean Energy used Exxon money to overhaul an aging California oil refinery in order to process the oil-rich seeds of a plant called camelina. Now Exxon is suing. It was May ...