BioFuels in the News

FEATURED ARTICLE : Pennsylvania Passes Biofuels-Friendly Budget
July 2008 | BioDiesel Magazine
Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell signed the state’s 2008-'09 budget into law on July 4, ushering in new incentives for biodiesel and cellulosic ethanol producers.
The Biofuel Development and In-State Production Incentive Act includes a mandate that gradually increases the amount of biodiesel to be blended into all diesel sold in Pennsylvania, beginning with a B2 requirement that goes into effect one year after the in-state production volume tops 40 MMgy. The requirement increases to 20 percent biodiesel one year after 400 MMgy is produced in-state ... more

Cleaner and Clearer
January 2008 | BioDiesel Magazine
Quality is the name of the game in biodiesel these days. Filter-clogging impurities made headlines in 2006 and biodiesel producers don’t need adverse press in an economically demanding era. ... more

Buyer Beware: What Blend of Biodiesel is in Your Tank?
May 2008 | BioDiesel Magazine
Small-scale fuel retailers are often inaccurately advertising biodiesel blends, a recent study ... more

Will Biodiesel Tax Credit Be Extended?
May 2008 | BioDiesel Magazine
The National Biodiesel Board’s legislative team is working to extend the biodiesel excise tax ... more

Airline Industry Advances Use of Biofuels
May 2008 | BioDiesel Magazine
On Feb. 24, a Boeing 747 jumbo jet flew from London to Amsterdam, burning a mix of 20 percent biofuel containing ... more

Dry Wash Approach to Biodiesel Purification
November 2007 | BioDiesel Magazine
As global warming moves onto the domestic and international agendas, and the U.S. government pursues its "Twenty in Ten" initiative... more

Congress sends bill raising fuel efficiency standards to Bush
December 2007 | CNN Politics
Congress by a wide margin approved the first increase in automobile fuel economy in 32 years Tuesday, and... more

House Sends Energy Bill to President Bush; New Renewable Fuel Standard
December 2007 | Green Car Congress
By a 314 to 100 vote, the US House of Representatives passed the energy bill (H.R.6) that had come back from... more

Algae on the Edge
March 2007 | BioDiesel Magazine
It was a sunny summer day in Fort Collins, Colo., and a group of students were busily laying 70-foot-long plastic... more

An algae-based fuel
May 2005 | Green Fuel Online
In the context of climactic changes and of soaring prices for a barrel of petroleum, biofuels are now being presented... more