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Tuesday 19 May 2009
 WIVB | Sunoco to purchase Northeast Biofuels News 10 Now, NY FULTON, NY -- It looks like there is a buyer for Northeast Biofuels in Fulton. The company filed for bankruptcy earlier this year and put its ethanol plant on the auction blocks this past week. Tuesday, the court approved the sale of the plant to oil ... Sunoco wins auction for Volney ethanol plant |
Ethanol formula, climate bill collide in House Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic leaders in the US House of Representatives must change existing biofuel rules if they want to pass a bill to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, the House Agriculture Committee chairman said on Tuesday. Rep. ... EPA Rule Could Wreck Biofuel Competition |
 The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com | Massey Energy CEO Addresses Stockholders, Board Declares Dividend PR Newswire (press release), NY RICHMOND, Va. , May 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Massey Energy Company (NYSE: MEE) Chairman and CEO Don L. Blankenship today addressed stockholders at the Company's Annual Meeting of Stockholders and said that the Company is well positioned for the ... Massey shareholders re-elect Gee to board Massey shareholders to vote on board, resolutions |
 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Biomass conversion in Madison could begin next year Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI By Thomas Content of the Journal Sentinel Construction could start next year on a plan to convert the Charter Street heating plant from burning coal to burning biomass and natural gas, a state official said Tuesday. ... Charter Street plant would switch to natural gas and biomass |
KU, Archer Daniels Midland form biofuel research partnership Lawrence Journal World, KS By Andy Hyland After receiving $2.4 million in outside funding, a new research collaboration between Kansas University and Archer Daniels Midland Co. will focus on new ways to approach biofuel refining. The funding comes in the form of a $1.2 million ... |
Here Comes the Sun Good Times, CA ???The crux of [the special finance district] is that it is as if your house went out and got the loan and you didn't, and that loan is repaid in your property taxes over 20 years,??? explains Colin Clark, Program Specialist for Ecology Action's Climate ... Video: Santa Cruz Wants Homeowners To Go Solar SC Looks To Go Solar With Public Financing |
 MyFoxOrlando.com | PSC approves Progress Energy Florida interim rates Bizjournals.com, NC Florida's Public Service Commission approved interim rates Tuesday for Progress Energy Florida Inc. The rates will increase the average 1000 kilowatts-hour residential bill by 41 cents, effective in July. Utilities that have petitioned the PSC for a ... Fla. OKs $13 Million Interim Rate Hike For Progress Energy Fla. panel OKs interim Progress Energy rate hike Progress Energy customers to see 4 percent increase |
 BBC News | Oil Rises to Six-Month High on Equity Gain, Refinery Fire Bloomberg ???The market was in negative territory until equities turned,??? said Gene mcgillian, an analyst and broker at Tradition Energy in Stamford, Connecticut. ???Gasoline has a bigger move, probably because of the fire at the Flint Hills refinery. ... Special Report - Energy Uncertainty Clouds Outlook for Oil Sector Crude prices top $60, then dip on housing data Flattening crude curve may unleash flood of US oil |
UW selects finalists for provost position UW Badger Herald, WI Simply use your browser's 'Print' command and a printer-friendly document will be generated automatically. by Kevin Bargnes The University of Wisconsin announced the finalists for the position of provost this afternoon. Included are three internal ... More UW students appeal their financial aid figures for next fall UW-Madison: Three candidates recommended for UW-Madison provost Students asking University of Wisconsin-Madison to take second ... |
Bigger Energy Crop Yields Could be Boon for Biofuels Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY By Russell Gold One of the big knocks on next-generation biofuels has been that you need to cover New Jersey twice over to make a dent in the transportation-fuel market. Good news. You might only need to cover New Jersey once. ... |
Obama task force eyes green jobs to boost economy Washington Post, United States By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A White House task force charged with helping to revive the economy will focus on the creation of a comprehensive US energy plan that will generate millions of clean energy jobs when its meets on Wednesday, ... |
House panel approves 'clean energy' bank New York Times, United States By BEN GEMAN, Greenwire The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a provision to its sweeping climate and energy bill that would create an autonomous Clean Energy Deployment Administration within the Energy Department and make reforms to DOE's ... US House Energy Panel Approves 'Cash-For-Clunkers' Amendment US House Panel OKs CO2 Bill Provision For Clean Energy Fund Clean Energy Deployment Administration Amendment to House Climate ... |
 Straits Times | Continuing Current US Energy Policy Called 'Perilous' Reuters By Tilde Herrera - Tilde Herrera As the political wrangling continues this week over the details of the Waxman-Markey climate change bill, a new report from a dozen retired US military leaders warns maintaining the country's current energy stance poses ... Time to scale up the new energy economy YOUR VIEW: Clean energy opportunity Misguided cap-and-trade bill would increase costs, taxes on every ... |
'False debate' of food versus biofuel Financial Times, UK By Clive Cookson in Atlanta New technology will enable the US to increase the production of biofuels rapidly without jeopardising food output, the biotech industry said on Tuesday. At the annual Biotechnology Industry Organisation's meeting in Atlanta, ... |
 Reuters | Concerns about biofuels initiative Delta Farm Press, NE There has been plenty of commodity group support for President Obama's recent directive to the USDA, the EPA and the Department of Energy to pick up the biofuels development pace (see Obama's biofuel initiative). However, praise hasn't been total: ... Let corn ethanol compete When 10% is enough, 15% can be too much Guest Opinion: Turning food into fuel is foolish |
Ecology wants Everett site off list Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce (subscription), WA SEATTLE ??? The Washington State Department of Ecology wants to remove an Everett property from its statewide list of contaminated sites. The city-owned property is at the southwest corner of Bond Street and Kromer Avenue. The 1.5-acre vacant parcel was ... |
EPA Rule Could Wreck Biofuel Competition AgWeb The biofuels industry has had a lot to say about the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lately, and not much of it is nice. The industry is dismayed that the EPA has decided to include indirect land use provisions in its rulemaking to expand the ... Kagen's New Energy Plan Aims to Boost Local Biofuels Production EPA plans to increase renewable fuels supply Legislation seeks to exclude indirect land use change from RFS2 ... |
Critical Role Of Evolutionary Processes In Species Coexistence And ... Science Daily (press release) ScienceDaily (May 19, 2009) ??? A team of researchers, addressing long-standing conflicts in ecology and evolutionary science, has provided key directions for the future of community ecology. The team comprehensively synthesized emerging work that ... |
Obama's biofuels policy boosts California-based Novozymes Inc. The State, SC The biofuels business has stalled in the last year, but in Davis, Novozymes Inc. is revving up. The Danish-owned company will expand its local footprint by half next week when it moves into two new research buildings. It's part of a long-term expansion ... Ethanol Co-products Team Awarded for Research and Outreach Farmers consider wood-based ethanol after corn hopes stall |
Natural resources and healthy ecology guarantee Karelia its ... News of the Republic of Karelia, Russia At the operational conference in the government Minister of Agriculture, Fish Industry and Ecology Grigory Manuylov has told about the Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Karelia for 2004-2010 regional target program implementation in ... |
 The Southern Ledger | GOP looks to expand renewables mix, stress economy during climate ... New York Times, United States By DARREN SAMUELSOHN, ClimateWire The House Energy and Commerce Committee begins the long slog today through hundreds of Republican amendments to change a 946-page energy and global warming bill (pdf) even as Democrats appear to be lining up behind the ... Bill targets global warming, mandates use of renewable energy Greenhouse Gas Bill Moves Forward, Slowly US House panel tackles climate change bill |
 Seattle Times | Idled Imperium biodiesel plant may reopen next year Seattle Times, United States He hopes to resume operations next year, but that depends on what happens in a lengthy federal rule-making process to guide the future of biofuels. An initial Environmental Protection Agency draft of those rules does not favor the canola-oil biodiesel ... Big Hoquiam biodiesel plant idled |
Castellano Aims For Green Career Rocktown Weekly, VA By Jeff Mellott HARRISONBURG - It is not an exaggeration to say that Harrisonburg High School senior Faith Castellano found herself when she joined the school's ecology club. A new student from North Carolina in her sophomore year, Castellano jumped ... |
Big Oil teams up with Big Timber for next biofuel breakthrough Vancouver Sun, Canada The catch: it's going to take tens of millions of tonnes of biofuel to make a commercially viable hydrocarbon-based fuel, he said. To grow sufficient biomass, Catchlight is going back to an old but proven sustainable agricultural model, ... |
City considering landfill biofuel project LimaOhio.com, OH LIMA - The city's Utilities Department is proposing a project that would harness biofuels from two Lima landfills for energy production. Presented to Lima City Council on Monday evening, the proposal was accepted and referred to the Utilities Committee ... |