Fermenting corn starch to generate ethanol for fuel is a complex biochemical process that requires the monitoring of numerous parameters to ensure optimal production. Measuring these parameters using ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack was among speakers at the official opening of LanzaJet Freedom Pines Fuels, the world’s first facility to process ethanol into sustainable aviation fuel in ...

Grayling Willer from Akron, Iowa has questions about proposed CO2 pipelines from ethanol plants: “There have been CO2 pipeline projects proposed to go through our area, carrying CO2 from ethanol ...

When corn farmers harvest their crop, they often leave the stalks, leaves and spent cobs to rot in the fields. Now, engineers have fashioned a new strain of yeast that can convert this inedible debris ...

As Congress gears up to debate the Farm Bill this week, CAP helps you get your facts right on biofuels. Congress gears up to debate the Farm Bill this week, which among other things looks to curb the ...

The U.S. government’s own scientists on Sept. 21 questioned whether corn-based ethanol is better for the environment than traditional petroleum-based fuels, nearly two decades after Congress first ...

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For over a decade, the US has blended ethanol with gasoline in an attempt to reduce the overall carbon pollution produced by fossil fuel-powered cars and trucks. But a new study says that the practice ...

The US is the world's largest producer of bioethanol as renewable liquid fuel, with more than 200 commercial plants processing over 16 billion gallons per year. Plants typically use dry grind ...

Corn ethanol, also known as grain alcohol, has been burned in gasoline engines and human stomachs since before Henry Ford was born. It’s hard on both, so until 35 years ago it never caught on much, at ...