Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2011 - University of California, Berkeley, chemists have engineered bacteria to churn out a gasoline-like biofuel at about 10 times the rate of competing microbes, a breakthrough that could soon provide an
Omaha NE (SPX) Mar 30, 2011 - Green Plains Renewable Energy has announced that it has completed the purchase of an ethanol plant from Otter Tail Ag Enterprises, LLC. The plant is located near Fergus Falls, Minnesota and brings G
Binghamton, NY (SPX) Mar 30, 2011 - A Binghamton University computer scientist with an interest in green software development has received the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award for young researchers. Yu Davi
Washington (AFP) March 30, 2011 - President Barack Obama Wednesday told politicians to ditch slogans and gimmicks and join his drive to cut US oil imports by a third in a just over a decade, but hit a wall of Republican scorn.
Khartoum, Sudan (UPI) Mar 30, 2011 - Hundreds of people have been killed in recent weeks along the still-to-be-defined border between Sudan and the breakaway state of South Sudan, mostly in oil-producing areas.
London (AFP) March 30, 2011 - World oil prices steadied on Wednesday following the latest update on energy reserves in key consumer the United States despite intensified fighting in crude exporter Libya.
Washington (AFP) March 30, 2011 - The United States faces tough questions as it tries to plot its energy future in the wake of the Japan nuclear disaster and long-running environmental and security concerns, analysts say.
Washington (AFP) March 30, 2011 - The United States said Wednesday that it hoped to negotiate a solution with China over its booming wind power sector before the World Trade Organization takes up the rift.
Washington (AFP) March 30, 2011 - The United States on Wednesday issued the first deepwater drilling permit for a new project in the Gulf of Mexico since a moratorium was imposed last year in the wake of the devastating BP oil spill.
San Marino CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2011 - VG Energy has announced that it has retained alternative energy producer BioProcess Algae, LLC to verify lab results on a large scale for the development of commercial production of its potential bi
Palo Alto, Calif. (UPI) Mar 29, 2011 - U.S. researchers say they've developed a battery that can generate electricity from the difference in salinity between fresh water and seawater.
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 29, 2011 - In an RV nicknamed after an urban assault vehicle, scientists from NASA's Langley Research Center traveled cross-country this month for an experiment with eco-friendly jet fuel. The Langley te
Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 29, 2011 - Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley have joined with researchers at Stanford University
Stanley, Falkland Islands (UPI) Mar 29, 2011 - Companies involved with oil exploration in the Falkland Islands waters have brought high-tech equipment on the scene in an intensified effort to get results from months of deep-sea drilling and geological surveys.
Anaheim CA (SPX) Mar 29, 2011 - Your next new car hopefully won't be a lemon. But it could be a pineapple or a banana. That's because scientists in Brazil have developed a more effective way to use fibers from these and other plan
Anaheim CA (SPX) Mar 29, 2011 - With billions of pounds of meat and bone meal going to waste in landfills after a government ban on its use in cattle feed, scientists described development of a process for using that so-called mea
