Oil in New York surged 77 percent over the past year as the S&P 500 and Dow averages dropped. China, the second-biggest oil- consuming country, increased crude-oil imports by 18 percent last month and halted overseas shipments to meet rising demand.

From cost comparison models based on USDA data with the price at $4.98 a bushel - well below current prices - Syntec's process has edged firmly ahead in competitiveness over corn fermentation methods

Virgin Atlantic Airways, the British carrier controlled by Richard Branson, tested a jumbo jet on Sunday that was partly powered by a biofuel made from babassu nuts and coconut oil, a first for a commercial aircraft.

A new analysis shows that the energy balance of biodiesel is a positive ratio of 3.5-to-1. For every unit of fossil energy needed to produce the fuel over its life cycle, the return is 3.5 units of energy.

For years, scientists have known that the building blocks in plant matter — not just corn kernels, but also corn stalks, wood chips, straw and even garbage — constituted a potential resource that could help fill the gasoline tanks of America’s autom

Centia is an advanced biofuels production process that takes any renewable oil input source and produces transportation fuels that are 1-for-1 replacements for petroleum jet fuel, diesel, and gasoline.

Clean-tech plays to America’s strength because making things lighter and smarter takes a lot of knowledge — not cheap labor. That’s why embedding clean-tech into everything we design and manufacture is a way to revive America as a manufacturing powe

Google today announced a new strategic initiative to develop electricity from renewable energy sources that will be cheaper than electricity produced from coal. RE<C will focus on advanced solar thermal power, wind power technologies, geothermal ...

Phrases like "going green" and "sustainable practices" are moving from fringe buzzwords to the forefront of the investor lexicon. Learn how global warming is starting to heat up America's corporate climate.