Everyone in Kibwezi, a village in southeastern Kenya parched by four years of drought, remembers the promises. It all started in 2000, when the government started preaching the word about a plant ...

Darling Ingredients Inc., a major U.S. producer of renewable diesel, defended imports of used cooking oil (UCO) as a feedstock to produce biofuels. An increase in UCO shipments from China has stirred ...

BENGALURU, India (AP) — India, the current president of the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations, has proposed a global biofuel alliance that seeks to accelerate the development of ...

Even plants have to live on an energy budget. While they're known for converting solar energy into chemical energy in the form of sugars, plants have sophisticated biochemical mechanisms for ...

One of the main criticisms about biofuels is that they occupy fields that should be dedicated to growing food for humans. That makes second-generation biofuels very attractive: they can use biomass as ...

A renowned bioenergy pioneer said Tuesday that production of corn-based ethanol doesn't result in as much net energy as production of other biofuels. Jay Keasling, CEO of the Joint BioEnergy Institute ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BENGALURU, India (AP) — India, the current ...