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This method is detailed in a new joint report from the US Geological Survey, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and academic and industry collaboration. The report, covering a joint USGS and BOEM 10-year series of studies of natural oil seeps ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Coastal seagrass can store more heat-trapping carbon per square mile (kilmometre) than forests can, which means these coastal plants could be part of the solution to climate change, scientists said in a new study.

By aftermarketNews staff WASHINGTON, DC – American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) President Charles Drevna has issued a statement in response to a recently released study that correlates engine failures to higher ethanol blends in vehicles.

Qatar Electricity and Water Co. and Qatar Solar Technologies said they signed an agreement to study developing solar power in the Persian Gulf emirate, according to a news release the companies issued today. Qatar Electricity plans to produce 10 ...

More on the potential risk to America's car and truck fleet posed by E15 – gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol that has EPA approval: Just-released research indicates that more than 5 million existing cars and light trucks, which EPA says are OK for ...

Researchers at Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) and Azhar Food Industries – both in the Malaysian state of Johor – have collaborated to install a mini biodiesel plant in the latter's factory. Azhar Food Industries makes potato chips and ...

America's growing use of domestically-produced ethanol reduced wholesale gasoline prices by an average of $1.09 per gallon in 2011, according to updated research conducted by economics professors at the University of Wisconsin and Iowa State University ...

By Danny King RSS feed This time, a group called the Coordinating Research Council released a study saying that the US Environmental Protection Agency's decision to push for allowing gas with a 15-percent ethanol blend (aka E15) to be sold to the ...

In the study, the latest in a line looking into the effects of raising ethanol content from E10 to E15, the CRC claimed that over two years of testing E15 in vehicles made between 2001-2009, two of the eight vehicles tested suffered significant wear.

A study backed by automakers contends that an ethanol blend approved by the Environmental Protection Agency damaged some car engines in tests.

AUTO CENTRAL - May 16, 2012: A bit more than 18-months ago, the EPA issued a study finding and held a teleconference to announce that after evaluation they determined that E15 engine fuel (15% ethanol mixed with 85% gasoline) had the same effects on spark-induced internal combustion engine vehicles manufactured after 2007 as E10 engine fuel (10% ethanol mixed with 90% gasoline), which in a word

In addition, “only three out of the eight engines were tested with straight gasoline containing no ethanol (E0), and one of those three failed the CRC's test.” Ethanol industry organizations were also quick to point out the flaws in the study and note ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of extreme rainstorms - deluges that dump 3 inches or more in a day - doubled in the U.S. Midwest over the last half-century, causing billions of dollars in flood damage in a trend climate advocates link to a rise in greenhouse gas emissions.

WASHINGTON, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers President Charles T. Drevna issued the following statement in response to a Coordinating Research Council report issued today on the organization's extensive testing of higher ethanol...