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Tuesday 24 February 2009
US Biofuel Policies Need Reform - Report SustainableBusiness.com, NY Policy reforms are needed at this critical juncture in America's effort to increase the use of biofuels, according to a report released by the Sierra Club and Worldwatch Institute. "At a time of volatile gas prices and rising concern about global ... |
Guest Speaker Discusses Integrating Mathematics and Life Science ... Wilkes University, PA The visit by Louis J. Gross, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology mathematics at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is made possible by a grant from Howard Hughes Medical Institute. On campus yesterday and today, he has been addressing Wilkes ... |
Troublesome toxins: Time to re-think plant-herbivore interactions ... 7thSpace Interactive (press release), NY Earlier models of plant-herbivore interactions relied on forms of functional response that related rates of ingestion by herbivores to mechanical or physical attributes such as bite size and rate. These models fail to predict a growing number of ... |
 Sify | NYMEX-Crude stays up after small API stock build Reuters However, it remains to be seen whether tomorrow's DOE report confirms these weekly swings," said Tim Evans, energy analyst at Citi Futures Perspective in New York. Traders also weighed stronger-than-expected OPEC compliance with production cuts. ... UPI Energy Watch Oil Falls as Demand May Weaken Faster Than OPEC Cuts Output Crude drops on demand concerns |
 Earth2Tech | PG&E announces largest-ever plan to develop solar energy generation San Jose Mercury News, USA By Sue McAllister California's drive to produce more clean energy got a big boost today when Pacific Gas & Electric announced its largest-ever plan to build and invest in ground- and rooftop-mounted solar energy generation systems. The five-year plan, ... Sempra Energy 4Q Net Jumps 10%; PG&E More Than Doubles Energy Storage: a Poor Idea for Solar-Thermal Power Project Utilities Jumping into the Solar Game |
AGL Energy First-Half Profit Surges on Gains From Asset Sales Bloomberg 25 (Bloomberg) -- AGL Energy Ltd., Australia???s biggest electricity and gas retailer, said first-half profit surged to A$1.65 billion ($1.1 billion) from a year-earlier loss on gains from the sale of assets. The net income for the six months ended Dec. ... Australia's AGL Energy H1 profit up, keeps forecast AGL Energy posts $1.65bn profit Australia's AGL Energy H1 profit up 5.3 percent |
 SYS-CON Media | Sempra Energy posts 10% net profit gain MarketWatch By Jim Jelter, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Sempra Energy posted a 10% increase in fourth-quarter profit Tuesday, with tighter cost controls, cheaper energy purchases and rising power sales fending off the impact of a weaker economy and ... Sempra Energy Earnings per Share Rise 6.5 Percent in 2008 Sempra Energy Net Income Reaches $1.1B Sempra Energy Q4 profit rises; Backs FY09 EPS outlook - Quick Facts |
FCStone sees more losses on energy trading account Reuters O) said it expects to record a pre-tax provision for bad loans of $60 million to $80 million in the second quarter related to losses by a significant energy trading account, knocking its shares down 40 percent. On an after-tax basis, the realized ... FCStone Group, Inc. Increases Bad Debt Provision for Previously ... FCStone Group increases bad debt provision for energy trading account FCStone expects $36M-$48M charge for bad debt provision |
 CBC.ca | Nasa rocket crash is big setback to knowledge of climate change Times Online, UK Professor John Burrows, of the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and a co-investigator of OCO, said that the information it would have gathered was required urgently to improve understanding of CO2 changes. ???Detailed understanding of the surface ... Failure hits Nasa's 'CO2 hunter' Nasa's ??190m 'global warming' satellite crashes in Antarctic ocean ... |
Commercial yeasts upgraded with an enzyme for biofuel production EurekAlert (press release), DC Eckhard Boles, co-founder of the Swiss biofuel company Butalco GmbH and a professor at Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany, has discovered a new enzyme which teaches yeast cells to ferment xylose into ethanol. Xylose is an unused waste sugar in the ... |
Energy Future may seek debt exchange -Moody's Reuters NEW YORK, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service said on Tuesday that Energy Future Holdings Corp may be more likely to seek a distressed debt exchange as it struggles under its debt burden and Moody's said it may cut its ratings on the Texas ... |
 KSFY | Governors ask Obama for biofuels 'vision' Feedstuffs, MN The bipartisan Governors' Biofuels Coalition is asking President Obama to endorse its long-term vision for the development of US biofuels that step in to support current production and provide a platform for robust production of next generation fuels. ... Governors Urge Immediate Biofuels Action Midwest govs seek to bolster alternative energy Governors Want Blend Wall Lifted |
In Troubled Times, Biofuels Could Be a Winner Biomass Magazine, ND Last year at this time, the biofuels industry had just seen some of the best economic times in its young history, but trouble was brewing with sky-high commodity prices. Just after biofuels survived worldwide blame and criticism for driving up the ... Biomass: A Federal Perspective States ratchet up RPS requirements, incentivize biomass utilization Sheehan joins university???s Institute on the Environment |
Satellite data aids biofuel feedstocks research Biomass Magazine, ND By Erin Voegele NASA researchers are completing a study that aims to predict the agricultural productivity of land in the Midwest that is being converted from traditional cropland to biofuel feedstock production. Christopher Potter, a research ... |
To Save Animals, Put a Price on Them Wired News Mandel and the co-authors of the proposal, published in Frontiers of Ecology and the Environment, are not the first to put a price on nature. The US government already pays developers to preserve habitat for some endangered animals, ... |
Cleanup proposed for Anacortes old mill site Seattle Post Intelligencer The state Department of Ecology is considering a major cleanup an old paper mill site on Fidalgo Bay in Anacortes. State officials say it would be the largest single effort under a statewide initiative to restore and protect Puget Sound. ... |
Cleanup proposed for Anacortes WA old mill site Seattle Post Intelligencer The Washington Department of Ecology is considering a major cleanup of an old paper mill site on Fidalgo Bay in Anacortes. State officials say it would be the largest single effort under a statewide initiative to restore and protect Puget Sound. ... |
Global "green" energy stimulus hits $200 bln -bank Reuters Governments in the United States, Europe and Asia have also developed more than 250 policies since July last year that support alternative energy such as solar and wind power and climate-change mitigation. "The activity shows that governments are very ... |
 Send2Press (press release) | JatrophaBioJet Corporation Will Develop the Jatropha / Advanced ... Send2Press (press release), CA The International Air Transport Association has stated it wants 10-percent of jet fuel to come from biofuels by 2017. Today Jatropha Oil is the most desirable biofuel additive to jet fuel -- a potential market of at least 200 million barrels of ... |
Encore Energy Systems Announces Biofuel Feedstock Distribution and ... CNNMoney.com Encore Energy Systems (PINKSHEETS: ENCS) announced today its feedstock distribution and purchasing program for existing biofuel plants. The program will service the Company's biofuel facilities and target industry partners presently operating under ... |
QuantumSphere Awarded Research Grant to Turn Algae Into Biofuels Market Wire (press release) Algae-based bio fuels hold great promise due to their enormous energy potential. According to experts, algae grows 20 to 30 times faster than food crops, contains up to 30 times more fuel than equivalent amounts of other bio fuel sources, ... |
Weak oil and imports turn EU biofuel boom to gloom Reuters By Sybille de La Hamaide - Analysis PARIS (Reuters) - European euphoria over biofuel has ended after slumping oil prices and cheap imports battered the sector last year, while the credit crisis has made the outlook even gloomier. ... |
Diplomats: EU plans to impose trade duties on US biofuels SmartBrief, DC The European Union is planning to introduce trade duties on US-imported biofuels to help address complaints from European manufacturers that American companies unfairly receive more support, diplomats said. European producers say their US counterparts ... EU prepares trade duties for US biofuels Trade wars begin? EU plans conditions on US biodiesel |
Craton Equity Partners invests $10m in biofuel development company AltAssets Southern Californian clean technology fund Craton Equity Partners has committed $10m to Principle Energy Limited, a biofuel development company with a focus on Africa. PEL???s first project is a sugarcane ethanol operation in Mozambique which aims to ... Craton Equity Partners Commits $10 Million to Principle Energy Limited |
Earth Biofuels and Willie Nelson to Host Grand Opening Concert At ... MSNBC 23, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Earth Biofuels, Inc. (Pink Sheets:EBOF) (the "Company") today announced that Willie Nelson will perform at the Willie's Place at Carl's Corner Truck Stop on February 24 & 25, 2009 to celebrate the opening of the facility. ... |
 AFP | French consumer spending shows bounce in January AFP In a separate report, the ecology ministry said that housing starts in France fell 20.2 percent between November 2008 and January 2009 compared with the same period a year earlier. Sales of new homes were down 37.6 percent in 2008 from 2007, it added. |
 The Associated Press | Federal control urged over revamp of electrical grid Houston Chronicle, United States Tim Wirth, center, hosts the National Clean Energy Project on Monday in Washington. From left are, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former President Bill Clinton, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, John Podesta, ... Strong Federal Role Needed To Break Renewable Energy Grid-Lock Sen. Reid has plan to reform energy infrastructure Pataki talks up greener energy |
 Voice of America | Solving our nation's energy predicament Chicago Tribune, United States By T. Boone Pickens, In their first month, President Barack Obama and the 111th Congress dramatically advanced clean-energy opportunities. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan has $90 billion of investments and incentives for energy efficiency ... Gathering Puts Energy Into Improving Power Grid Senate Majority Leader Pushes Renewable Energy Bill US Democratic Leaders Mull Ideas for Energy Independence |
Biofoolish.com - Bio Fuel Or Biofoolish? Killer Startups, FL Specifically, biofuels attract a lot of attention if only because they were once touted as the definitive way out of environmental havoc. As it is the case with any solution that is deemed as a bit of a miracle cure, tempers run high quite easily, ... BIO Supports Governors' Biofuels Coalition Call for Vision for the ... Research and Markets: Bio Fuels Webinar: Synthetic Biology for Advanced Biofuels, Biobased Chemicals |
Cleveland Gets New Center for Environmental Health and Human Ecology AZoCleantech, Australia The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and its Department of Environmental Health Sciences have partnered to establish a Center for Environmental Health and Human Ecology. ... |
 Dividend.com | DTE Energy 4Q earnings fall 49 percent Forbes, NY AP , 02.23.09, 07:32 PM EST DTE Energy on Monday reported a 49 percent drop in fourth-quarter earnings as a result of lower sales and higher uncollectible expenses at its Detroit Edison electric utility, and forecast 2009 profit below Wall Street ... DTE Energy Q4 profit misses estimates DTE Biomass Energy launches three projects in 2008 DTE Energy Company Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript |