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Locals make own biodiesel in garage Ollie Kroner's car doesn't look all that different. True, a mid-1980s Mercedes sedan in decent shape will turn a few heads but it's not the kind of vehicle meant to draw attention. There is the emblem, though: a few letters added as a prefix to the engine designation on the trunk, turning "turbodiesel" into "bioturbodiesel."

A small company has developed a process for making biodiesel fuel out of butter.

A proposal to make large quantities of biodiesel fuel in San Francisco has sparked opposition from the city's Green Party. The Greens assert the fuel -- which is in vogue as an eco-friendl...

In December, Sen. Richard Lugar expressed his support for the Biodiesel Tax Credit in a letter to the Senate Committee on Finance. The credit was due to expire at the end of the year, and Lugar said he was concerned about the precarious situation delay and inaction from Congress in extending the credit would create for biofuels producers.

The non-profit Iowa Central Fuel Testing Laboratory has earned an accreditation as a BQ-9000 laboratory, a voluntary biodiesel quality assurance program overseen by the independent National Biodiesel Accreditation Commission.

SPARKS (AP) Three people were injured in a fire and explosion at a biodiesel fuel plant in an industrial section of Sparks near the Truckee River.

Waste cooking oil and chunks of farmed animals that are currently used to manufacture cosmetics and animal food might instead be converted locally into biodiesel. A fleet of trucks delivers some of the food industrys grossest byproducts six days a week to a rendering facility that operates, sometimes 24 hours...

Businesses interested in sustainable practice and the value it can add to brands and bottom lines as well as qualifications can hear more by attending this weeks Queenstown Lakes Sustainable Business Programme update.

Fourteen Marlborough companies have joined forces to buy 2.5 million litres of biodiesel.

Tens of thousands of acres of Mid-Iowa farmland are planted with corn and soybeans in alternate years, the corn extracting nitrogen from the soil one season, the soybeans replenishing it the next.

Tens of thousands of acres of Mid-Iowa farmland are planted with corn and soybeans in alternate years, the corn extracting nitrogen from the soil one season, the soybeans replenishing it the next.

Federal tax credit expired in 2009

Missouri's leading Senate candidates want to reinstate a biodiesel tax break.

Blunt, Carnahan back extension of biodiesel tax break

Missouri's leading Senate candidates want to reinstate a biodiesel tax break.

The non-profit Iowa Central Fuel Testing Laboratory has earned an accreditation as a BQ-9000 laboratory, a voluntary biodiesel quality assurance program overseen by the independent National Biodiesel Accreditation Commission.

LITTLE ROCK When Pinnacle BioFuels opened in Crossett in 2008, renewable fuels and reducing Americas dependence on foreign oil were on everybodys mind.

LITTLE ROCK When Pinnacle BioFuels opened in Crossett in 2008, renewable fuels and reducing Americas dependence on foreign oil were on everyones mind.

GREENFIELD - Proponents of alternative energy had a glimpse of the green pastures that lie ahead this week as Northeast Biodiesel broke ground on a facility that will produce clean fuel for heating and transportation from used grease and vegetable oil.

LITTLE ROCK When Pinnacle BioFuels opened in Crossett in 2008, renewable fuels and reducing Americas dependence on foreign oil were on everyones mind.