Biofuels are a key component of a clean energy future, and it turns out that the soil is more important than the crop. As an Earth scientist, I was pleased to see it was the soil. I shouldn’t have ...

A biofuel is a fuel that is produced through biological processes (such as agriculture) as opposed to geological processes (like fossil fuels). Renewable biofuels either involve carbon fixation, such ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency indicated this week that it is leaning toward increasing the biofuel "blend wall," the amount of ethanol allowed to be added to gasoline. It’s still running ...

The cultivation of feedstocks for biofuel production accounted for only about 7% of the cultivated land. Most biofuels are ...

From coal to diesel to green? To jump start its sustainability goals, Union Pacific (UP) has committed to reducing absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 50.4% by 2030 from a 2018 base year from ...

For decades, American farm policy has funneled tens of billions of taxpayer dollars toward renewable, crop-based fuels, with elected leaders and the biofuels industry lauding them as cleaner, greener ...