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EU Commission wants more biofuels, pledges vigilanceBrussels (AFP) June 10, 2010 EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger on Thursday called for higher goals for biofuels use, while vowing an effective certification system to avoid hurting the environment with the fuel crops. "I think the 10 percent objective should be raised," he told reporters in Brussels Thursday, referring to one of the goals included in the European Union's climate agreement aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent over this decade. "We will look at the market, the environmental advantag ... read more |
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Livermore CA (SPX) May 17, 2010Understanding the key elements of biofuel combustion is an important step toward insightful selection of next-generation alternative fuels. And that's exactly what Lawrence Livermore and Sandia national laboratories researchers intend to do. In a new paper on the cover of the May 10 edition of the journal Angewandte Chemie, Sandia researcher Nils Hansen and Lawrence Livermore scientist Cha ... more 
Stanford CA (SPX) May 17, 2010Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a gene in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae that might be important for ethanol production from plant material, providing insights into the bioethanol alternative to 'fossil fuels'. Combining new high-throughput genome sequencing technology with traditional genetic methods, this study highlights the previously unk ... more 
Livermore, Calif. (UPI) May 12, 2010 U.S. scientists say they've embarked on needed research into the chemistry of biofuel combustion. Researchers at Lawrence Livermore and Sandia national laboratories in California say a better understanding of the key elements of biofuel combustion will be important in developing the next generation of alternative fuels. Sandia researcher Nils Hansen and Lawrence Livermore scienti ... more |
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Indonesian palm oil giant broke commitments: GreenpeaceSingapore (AFP) March 19, 2009 Greenpeace on Tuesday disclosed what it said was new evidence showing Indonesia's biggest palm oil producer Sinar Mas broke a pledge not to destroy forest rich in carbon and wildlife. Activists from the environmental group said they had discovered recently that a Sinar Mas subsidiary, PT BAT, was still clearing rainforest near a habitat of orangutans, an endangered species, in Central Kalimantan. Two weeks ago, Greenpeace unveiled what it said was evidence that another Sinar Mas subsidiary, PT A ... read more |
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