MIAMI, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Top officials at Brazil's state-run energy company Petrobras expect big things from President-elect Barack Obama next year, in particular a reduction of the tariff on Brazilian ethanol exported to the United States.
MIAMI, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Increasing ethanol production in Brazil will not lead to greater deforestation of the Amazon, as some critics of the world's largest ethanol exporter contend, according to a top Brazilian official at the outset of a five-day international biofuel conference in Brazil.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Florida's proposed buyout of U.S. Sugar Corp. to restore the Everglades has changed as the corporation said it was considering building an ethanol plant.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- The federal government said Monday it is increasing the target for the amount of ethanol used in the U.S. gasoline supply to 11.1 billion gallons.
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- U.S. ethanol producers in the Midwest are struggling financially amid falling prices and tightening credit markets, analysts say.
OMAHA, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Nebraska-based Green Plains Renewable Energy Inc. joined ethanol industry leaders to advocate the use of ethanol.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Nov. 12 (UPI) -- A U.S. agricultural economist says crop growers' fortunes are now tied more to ethanol than food.
CHICAGO, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Wavering corn prices have turned on the U.S. ethanol production business, which is struggling to survive in its current form, records show.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D., Nov. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. ethanol producer Verasun Energy says it has declared bankruptcy after sustaining huge losses on the corn futures market.
BRUSSELS , Oct. 29 (UPI) -- The European Commission is working on a new directive to allow certain biofuels produced in Europe to meet greenhouse gas emission rules.
HOUSTON, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- A major U.S. pipeline operator says it successfully test-shipped ethanol over a standard gasoline pipeline in a breakthrough in ethanol development.
CHICAGO, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Midwest grains remained under pressure through much of the day at the Chicago Board of Trade Thursday as most finished in the red.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency refused Thursday to reduce its quota for ethanol use from 9 billion gallons this year and 11 billion gallons in 2009.
LONDON, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- BP and Verenium Corp. announced cooperation on ethanol in the United States.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., July 31 (UPI) -- U.S. crop experts say they've discovered the giant perennial grass Miscanthus x giganteus can significantly outperform current biofuel sources.
