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HOUSTON — Phillips 66 CEO Greg Garland said he doesn't expect the Keystone XL pipeline to gain U.S. approval this year and suggested that regulators will need to “fix” requirements governing the blending of biofuels into gasoline. Environmentalists are pressing hard for the Obama administration to deny a permit, arguing that oils sands produce a dirty form of crude and that pipeline spills would

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The South American country applied last year to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to earn "RIN" alternative fuel credits, used by U.S. refiners, importers and others to prove they are complying with biofuel blending requirements.

There were 193 ethanol plants operating as of January, one fewer than in 2012, the EIA said. The number of plants in Monday's report included units that had been idled or temporarily shut down during 2012 as ethanol producers reacted to market forces ...

The Kroger Co. is turning food no longer fit to be sold or eaten into energy to power a sprawling California distribution center — pioneering a biofuel that could have potential at grocery chains elsewhere.

PORTSMOUTH — Energy production and consumption in Northern New England isn't just about oil, gas and electric anymore. The landscape also includes solar, wind, biomass, pellet, waste-to-energy, tidal power and hydro-electric.

Imagine a world where leftover corn, wheat and wood chips could power your car.That's the aim of cellulosic ethanol, a budding sector of the renewable fuel industry that finds itself struggling to reassert itself in a world of renewed popularity for oil and gas. The process aims to transform agriculture waste, most of which would normally be discarded, into a renewable source of fuel

After a drought, record-high corn prices and plant shutdowns, ethanol producers say 2013 has to be better.

When the factory she worked at closed down, Tammy Thomas reinvented herself as a community organizer; and when Dean Price's truck stop business went belly up, he became a champion of biofuel. In a new book, George Packer examines how ordinary people are adapting to a new America.

HASTINGS — Chief Ethanol Fuels in Hastings has received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development to help support its efforts in the production of advanced biofuels.

The cost of wholesale gasoline has skyrocketed almost overnight due to reported oil refinery shutdowns, but Todd Sneller, administrator of the Nebraska Ethanol Board, said the spread between ethanol and gasoline also widened by as much as 85 cents per gallon.

The Halifax-based serial entrepreneur, with fresh interests in biofuels and undersea fibre-optics, is as hungry today as he was 40 years ago when he sold lobsters out of the back of a pick-up truck

Pannónia Ethanol , a Hungarian producer of ethanol fuel, lodged a complaint with the European Commission last year after price reporting agency Platts denied it the opportunity to contribute to setting prices, Bloomberg said.

CEO Paulo Roberto de Souza claimed his company only sold one-third of its early crop directly to the sugar industry, but a growing need in the ethanol industry will help stabilise prices which fell below $0.17 (€0.13) per pound for the first time in nearly three ...