A federal jury on Monday convicted a California businessman of charges related to a $1 billion renewable fuel tax credit fraud scheme involving members of a secretive polygamist group that have eluded law enforcement for decades.
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In a glimpse of the future, an entire sports event has been run on horse manure. The world’s governing equestrian body on Monday praised a climate-friendly scheme by a Finnish equestrian event to generate all its electricity needs from horse manure, saying the initiative paves way to cutting reliance on fossil fuels in horse sports.
Read moreGreenpeace activists on Tuesday blocked the entrance to a refinery in southern France where oil giant Total uses controversial palm oil to produce biofuel.
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Following months of complaints from the Midwest, the Trump administration announced fuel-blend requirements Friday that will boost ethanol demand, turning the page on oil-refinery exemptions that crippled some corn farmers.
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The D.C. Circuit on Friday upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s renewable fuel standards in the face of challenges from energy companies, biofuel producers and industry groups.
Read moreChinese scientists have developed a new plant-based biofuel that could help the aviation industry “go green,” according to research published in the journal Joule Thursday.
Read moreIn a move expected to increase overseas exports, the European Union approved the use of U.S. soybeans Tuesday in the production of biofuel.
Read moreThe Renewable Fuels Association petitioned the 10th Circuit on Tuesday to review three EPA waivers from annual biofuels requirements; one of the waivers went to a company owned by billionaire Carl Icahn.
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With much of the attention of Capitol Hill focused elsewhere Tuesday, a House committee was told the federal renewable fuel standard was short-sighted and more can be achieved by promoting innovative approaches to carbon capture and other technologies.
Read moreCleveland residents fed up with noxious odors from a nearby bio-energy facility filed a class-action lawsuit claiming the facility, which supplies green energy to the local electric utility, is a nuisance that diminishes area property values.
Read moreProsecutors unveiled charges Thursday that accuse a Pennsylvania biofuel company of manipulating lab tests to claim federal credits for substandard fuel.
Read moreGovernment officials testified before the Senate on Thursday that sluggish development of ethanol and other biofuels has hampered attainment of the Renewable Fuel Standard.
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