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.

It took the 1970s oil crisis for Brazilian dictators to impose ethanol as a way of avoiding oil dependency. Although the idea was relatively popular, other countries still debate if using crops makes ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- World demand for fuel and food is projected to double in the next 50 years. Now, researchers have concluded that corn may not be up to the task of filling both stomachs and gas tanks.

STANLEY, Wis. (WEAU) - The harvest season for many area farmers is wrapping up according to this week’s USDA report with 78% of corn for grain is complete. 37% of the corn grown in Wisconsin is used ...

Honeywell and Summit Agricultural are partnering to build the world’s largest plant making ethanol-based aviation fuel – a project that is likely to become a $1 billion facility and expected to open ...

CONSTANTINE, Mich. (WOOD) — A new plant coming to Constantine will use a dairy byproduct to make ethanol. Canadian company Dairy Distillery will expand in Constantine in partnership with the Michigan ...

The facts about the true value of ethanol are finally getting out. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has released a report stating that the worldwide investments in producing ...

Plants making ethanol, biodiesel and other biofuels, including some in Michigan, are major emitters of toxic air pollution despite their image as purveyors of a green alternative to gasoline and ...

CHICAGO — General Motors Corp. said Wednesday that half its U.S. vehicle volume will run on ethanol by 2012, just as partner Coskata Inc. is expected to be ramping up ethanol production. In a speech ...

FILE— In this Jan. 28, 2014 file photo a jar of ethanol fuel sits on display during the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association meeting in Altoona, Iowa. As hospitals and nursing homes run out of hand ...

Ethanol has less energy than gasoline, but it can make so much more horsepower! Ethanol contains less energy than gasoline, ...