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The European Union started an investigation into shipments of U.S. biodiesel to Europe as it seeks to find out if antidumping measures introduced last year are being circumvented.

Cashton, Wis.-based biodiesel producer Best BioDiesel Cashton LLC shut down production, according to Biodiesel Magazine, as a result of the lapse of the $1 biodiesel blenders tax credit at the end of 2009.

A historic day will be marked in Enterprise Thursday with the grand opening of the citys Biodiesel Plant. Officials from across the state will join Gov. Bob Riley to celebrate more than a year of preparation to make clean fuel for the citys fleet.

Butter is not the fuel of the future, but it is possible to churn perfectly good diesel fuel out of it.

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.