ST. JOHN PARISH, La. (Louisiana Illuminator) – A Toronto-based energy company announced plans Tuesday for a new facility in Louisiana that would burn wood and garbage to produce what it considers ...

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Ethanol made from tree limbs pulled off curbside heaps is going into gas tanks in what the federal government described Thursday as the nation's first program recycling municipal ...

Reliance on petroleum fuels and raging wildfires: Two separate, large-scale challenges that could be addressed by one scientific breakthrough. Researchers have developed a streamlined and efficient ...

Briquettes created through torrefaction, produced by NextFuel, can be used in a similar infrastructure to coal. In Joensuu, a city in Eastern Finland often described as the “Forest Capital of Europe,” ...

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Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Plans to turn UK household waste into biofuels could see savings of up to three million car emissions annually. The UK Carbon Trust has created a consortium of British businesses led by Axion Energy ...

This article first appeared on edie.net on March 26, 2013. Waste from biofuel could drive the production of more sustainable concrete through a pioneering closed-loop process. Researchers are ...

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras have devised a microwave-assisted heating method that can help convert agricultural and plastic waste into bio-oils 1. They have produced ...