Saturday, February 04, 2012
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A bill that would end future state subsidies for corn-based ethanol is in the California Senate after sailing through the Assembly. The bill by Assemblyman David Valadao, R-Hanford, would bar any funding from the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 12:00 PM
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- A Vermont utility is looking for more farms that want to participate in its project that uses farm waste to help generate electricity and more customers willing to pay extra to use the power. The Central Vermont Public Service Corp. says it recently brought its 10th &quo ...
Monday, January 30, 2012 7:59 AM
BOARDMAN, Ore. (AP) -- The federal government said Thursday it would guarantee a large share of the financing for an eastern Oregon plant that would turn poplar trees and agricultural waste into ethanol. The $235 million loan guarantee is for ZeaChem Inc. of Lakewood, Colo., which plans ...
Thursday, January 26, 2012 10:16 AM
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded $25 million Friday to an eastern Iowa plant for its project to turn garbage into fuel. Maryland-based Fiberight LLC is building the plant, which would work with a local landfill to obtain municipal trash that will be turn ...
Friday, January 20, 2012 11:00 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Max Baucus says a global wind energy company headquartered in China plans to build a 20-megawatt wind farm in central Montana. Baucus says that the wind farm is for proposed for a site near Shawmut, a small community about 75 miles northwest of Billings ...
Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:48 AM
CHICAGO (AP) -- U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says biofuels are playing a growing role in the civilian aircraft and airline industry and in the military. Vilsack spoke Monday at a business roundtable meeting at Chicago-based Boeing Co. Vilsack says the U.S. Department of Agricultu ...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 7:55 AM
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) -- A struggling southeastern Idaho solar-industry manufacturer has paid its November bill of $1.9 million to Idaho Power Co. and has until Jan. 26 to pay interest on the bill along with its December's bill, the Idaho Public Utilities Commission says. The agency tells KIFI- ...
Saturday, January 14, 2012 8:33 PM
The upgrades Dewey Stander made to two of his irrigation pumps should significantly lower his energy costs, and Idaho Power footed most of the bill. Stander, a Blackfoot alfalfa farmer, replaced a pump designed to run a wheel line that had been retrofitted for a pivot. The new system uses much le ...
Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:00 PM
Dairy groups are among those claiming victory in the elimination of the ethanol blenders tax credit and tariffs on imported ethanol, which expired Dec. 31 without renewal by Congress. The fuel industry had received a 45-cent per gallon tax credit to blend ethanol with gasoline, and were protected ...
Thursday, January 12, 2012 10:00 AM
HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) -- An Oregon fuel cell manufacturer said Tuesday it has reached an agreement to sell $500 million worth of equipment to an energy company in Austria. ClearEdge Power Inc., in Hillsboro, said the agreement with Gussing Renewable Energy GmbH, in Gussing, Austria, is one of th ...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:03 PM
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- A federal judge moved Thursday to block California from enforcing its first-in-the-nation mandate for cleaner, low-carbon fuels, saying the rules favor biofuels produced in the state. The lawsuit challenging the state regulations, which were adopted as part of California' ...
Thursday, December 29, 2011 4:33 PM
WARDEN, Wash. -- A new federal regulation will require farms with large fuel tanks to build containment walls around the them. Aaron Golladay, of Warden, Wash., uses about 100,000 gallons of fuel per year on his 4,000-acre farm, Stokrose Farms Inc. He has storage tanks for the diesel fuel and un ...
Thursday, December 22, 2011 10:00 AM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Eastern Idaho could see more wind turbines after a deal struck between an energy developer, a big regional utility and Idaho regulators. Utah-based developer Cedar Creek Wind on Wednesday was tentatively cleared to erect turbines totaling about 120 megawatts in Bonne ...
Thursday, December 22, 2011 9:10 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is boosting renewable energy on both coasts, officials said Tuesday, including projects on public lands in the West and pushing for offshore wind projects in the Atlantic Ocean. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said his department has approved a 300- ...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 2:09 PM
PROSSER, Wash. (AP) -- If you didn't know you were at a university laboratory, you would think Building No. 117C was a barn. The smell of dry hay fills the air. Machinery whirs. Dust coats the floor. There is a reason research assistants wear masks. "You get down to it, it's ...
Thursday, December 15, 2011 8:54 AM
PENDLETON, Ore. -- Umatilla and Morrow county growers would love another crop for their rotations, according to a wheat industry leader. But not at the expense of the area's food-processing industry. Minus an influx of irrigation water, the loss of one or more of the area's food processors is a p ...
Thursday, December 15, 2011 1:00 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sensing a political opening, House Republicans on Tuesday approved a plan that links speedy approval of an oil pipeline from Canada to a measure renewing a payroll tax cut. The vote sets up a showdown with President Barack Obama, who has threatened to veto the bill. The ...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 4:51 PM
TORONTO (AP) -- Canada pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change Monday, saying the accord won't help solve the climate crisis. It dealt a blow to the anti-global warming treaty, which has not been formally renounced by any other country. Environment Minister Peter Kent said that Canad ...
Monday, December 12, 2011 2:35 PM
PROSSER, Wash. (AP) -- If you didn't know you were at a university laboratory, you would think Building No. 117C was a barn. The smell of dry hay fills the air. Machinery whirs. Dust coats the floor. There is a reason research assistants wear masks. "You get down to it, it's dirty work," s ...
Monday, December 12, 2011 10:14 AM
Outwardly, little distinguished two Alaska Airlines flights that departed Seattle Nov. 9. The flights, however, marked what may be the beginning of a new era in aviation. The flights -- one to Washington, D.C., and the other to Portland -- were the airline's first powered by biofuels. Alaska plan ...
Thursday, December 08, 2011 12:00 PM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Federal regulators on Wednesday ruled in favor of Northwest wind power generators who objected to being ordered to shut down at times this spring when the Columbia River basin was brimming with water and hydropower dams were running at maximum capacity. The Federal Ener ...
Wednesday, December 07, 2011 1:59 PM
TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- The Navy has made the biggest biofuel order yet from a company set up as a joint venture between Tulsa-based Syntroleum Corp. and Springdale, Ark.-based Tyson Foods Inc. The company, Dynamic Fuels LLC, said Monday the 450,000-gallon order is an important step for the compan ...
Tuesday, December 06, 2011 7:30 AM
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Livestock farmers are demanding a change in the nation's ethanol policy, claiming current rules could lead to spikes in meat prices and even shortages at supermarkets if corn growers have a bad year. The amount of corn consumed by the ethanol industry combined with co ...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 9:20 AM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- An interim legislative committee is backing away from previous support for the creation of a consumer advocacy office for the state's utility customers and a set of tax incentives for renewable energy. The Legislature's Interim Energy, Environment and Technology Committee d ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 11:10 AM
BEIJING (AP) -- U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson said Chinese officials promised foreign technology suppliers equal access to their booming clean energy industry in trade talks amid pressure to revive global growth. Bryson said Monday that Chinese officials told him the country will in ...
Monday, November 21, 2011 7:07 AM
BLAIR, Neb. (AP) -- The leading maker of the enzymes used to produce biofuels says the declining political support for ethanol hasn't diminished the long-term prospects for the industry making fuel from plants. Novozymes plans to open a major new enzyme plant in eastern Nebraska next year ...
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