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  • Southwest Airlines to Use Forest Biofuels

    - by Ter­ry Max­on, Decem­ber 31, 2014, Dal­las Morn­ing News South­west Air­lines announced Wednes­day that it plans to buy some bio­fu­els made from waste wood, for use in its San Fran­cis­co Bay air­ports begin­ning in two years. To use South­west­’s phras­ing, it is pur­chas­ing “low car­bon renew­able jet fuel, made using for­est residues that will help reduce the risk…

  • Ohio Bioenergy Corporation Owes Over $50K in Taxes, Fees

    - by David E. Mal­loy, Decem­ber 29, 2014, Her­ald Dispatch Bio­mass, a Ken­tucky-based com­pa­ny that owns the for­mer South Point Ethanol prop­er­ty adja­cent to The Point indus­tri­al park, will have to pay more than $53,000 in back tax­es, penal­ties and costs by Jan. 27 to main­tain the 78-acre parcel. Lawrence Coun­ty Pros­e­cut­ing Attor­ney Brigham Ander­son filed…

  • Rim Fire Forests Fuel Biomass Energy

    - Decem­ber 29, 2014, The Recorder Near­ly 40,000 tons of for­est residue from the Rim Fire area in Tuolumne Coun­ty has been removed for use to gen­er­ate bio­mass ener­gy, accord­ing to the U.S. Agri­cul­ture Department. Mean­while, the USDA said it has made funds avail­able to help Cal­i­for­nia landown­ers con­serve nat­ur­al resources dam­aged or threat­ened as a…

  • Biofuel Hell

    - by Richard Adri­an Reese, Feb­ru­ary 17, 2013, Wild Ances­tors I keep hav­ing night­mares about one pos­si­ble future: bio­fu­el hell.  Clear­ly, they are visions sent by ances­tral spir­its, and they are meant to be shared.  Per­haps they will inspire writ­ers, movie mak­ers, and oth­er cre­ative peo­ple to pro­duce heal­ing, mind-alter­ing work.  Per­haps they will inspire con­tem­pla­tion…

  • Study Finds Ethanol Worse For Air Quality Than Gasoline

    - by Bill Hud­son, Decem­ber 17, 2014, CBS Min­neso­ta For years, the state’s corn and ethanol indus­tries have tout­ed the envi­ron­men­tal ben­e­fits of burn­ing the alter­na­tive fuel in our vehicles. But new­ly released research from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Min­neso­ta Col­lege of Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing is rais­ing eyebrows. The study com­pared pol­lu­tion lev­els from gaso­line fuel and…

  • Minnesota Ethanol Plant Fined $25K for Air Pollution and Noise

    - Decem­ber 11, 2014, Asso­ci­at­ed Press The Corn Plus ethanol plant in the south-cen­tral Min­neso­ta city of Win­neba­go has agreed to pay a $25,000 penal­ty and take steps to reduce its air pol­lu­tion and noise levels. The cor­rec­tive actions announced by the Min­neso­ta Pol­lu­tion Con­trol Agency on Wednes­day mark the lat­est step by offi­cials to bring the…

  • $181,000 Fine for Ethanol Air Pollution in Albany, NY

    - by Bri­an Near­ing, Decem­ber 12, 2014, Times Union An oil ter­mi­nal oper­a­tor at the Port of Albany has been hit with a $181,000 penal­ty by the state Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Con­ser­va­tion for air pol­lu­tion vio­la­tions that last­ed near­ly a year. Buck­eye Part­ners failed to prop­er­ly con­trol vapor emis­sions from ethanol — a corn-based bio­fu­el used as a gaso­line…

  • Tampa Man Sentenced for $3 Million Biofuels Fraud

    - by Susan Sal­is­bury, Decem­ber 9, 2014, Palm Beach Post     A Tam­pa man was sen­tenced today on charges he scammed investors out of more than $3 mil­lion after promis­ing returns on bio-ener­gy crops such as cameli­na that were not even planted William A. Vas­den Jr. who once head­ed the Flori­da Feed­stock Grow­ers Asso­ci­a­tion, was sen­tenced…

  • Windfarms More Efficient than Biofuels?

    - by Aidan Har­ri­son, Decem­ber 5, 2014, Northum­ber­land Gazette Its obses­sion with ‘mar­kets’ has already placed our rail­ways and util­i­ties in the hands of big for­eign state and cor­po­rate-owned monopolies. The first thing to make clear is that the tech­nol­o­gy of wind pow­er is noth­ing like as inef­fi­cient as its fanat­i­cal detrac­tors claim. In terms of ener­gy…

  • Ethanol Spill in Greensboro, North Carolina

    - Decem­ber 8, 2014, Bio­fu­els International Fire­fight­ers in Greens­boro, North Car­oli­na, respond­ed to a leak­ing tanker at a Ryder truck rental facility. Approx­i­mate­ly 2,000 gal­lons of ethanol spilled in an acci­dent in south Greens­boro North Carolina. A tanker filled with ethanol burst after the land­ing gear, which is used to keep the trail­er upright when not…