With backing from GM, ethanol start-up hosts a tour of its biotech lab, where scientists are genetically engineering microorganisms that they hope will bring a breakthrough in ethanol production.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Inside his bright, new laboratory at the University of Florida, researcher Lonnie Ingram is trying to build a better bug. That's what scientists and others call the microscopic ...

General Motors has teamed with Coskata to support its new breakthrough technology that supposedly can make ethanol from practically any renewable source – including garbage General Motors has teamed ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In less than a year, cellulosic ethanol startup ZeaChem has raced through ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The key to kicking what President Bush calls the nation’s oil addiction could very well lie in termite guts, canvas-eating jungle bugs and other microbes genetically engineered to spew ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A technology that might offer some respite to first-generation ethanol ...

RUTLAND (AP) -- The Rutland Redevelopment Authority is planning a feasibility study to see if the city could host a plant to make ethanol out of grass or wood chips. Thomas Macaulay, a former state ...

BENSON -- More than a year has passed since the Chippewa Valley Ethanol Co., and its partner FrontLine BioEnergy, began the process to be allowed to build a biomass gasifier at the Benson ethanol ...

This milestone marks the world’s first commercial-scale production of jet fuel derived from ethanol as a feedstock.

TOPEKA, Kan. — A proposal to build a $200 million ethanol plant in Shawnee County met stiff resistance at a public hearing, where nearly all of the 29 speakers opposed the plan. About 150 people ...