When Paul Krugman joins a diverse group of pundits and publications in slamming ethanol, says Mark J. Perry, “it’s now official: Ethanol is a complete and total scam.” When Paul Krugman joins a ...

Climate change concerns have created a massive distortion when it comes to vehicle emissions. To a large extent, this distortion is what gave birth to Dieselgate. Concerned with carbon, American and ...

Research team designs a palladium-zirconium phosphate catalyst that converts CO2 into ethanol with 92% efficiency, pointing to scalable clean fuel solutions. Capturing and converting CO₂ into useful ...

WASHINGTON -- Detroit automakers said Wednesday they would double their production of vehicles capable of burning ethanol and other renewable fuels to 2 million cars and trucks a year by 2010, and ...

DNR's fleet of ethanol-burning vehicles deals blow to mission of conservation, groups say st. paul -- The Department of Natural Resources' expanding fleet of 300 "flex-fuel" vehicles is undercutting ...

The first gas station pump in Maryland to dispense clean-burning ethanol -- a fuel made largely from corn or other grains -- opened in Laurel to great fanfare in November 2001. More than a year later, ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian automotive engineers are working to design engines that burn ethanol as efficiently as gasoline, as more of their technologies are adopted by countries turning to ...

Folks have been experimenting with ethanol in modern combustion engines even when they weren't so modern. Nicolaus Otto, the inventor of the traditional four-cycle engine, used it to power one of his ...

A train hauling ethanol derailed Thursday morning in Raymond, Minnesota, igniting several rail cars and forcing a mandatory evacuation of the city of about 800, officials said. The fire was still ...

Two decades ago, when the world was wising up to the threat of climate change, the Bush administration touted ethanol — a fuel usually made from corn — for its threefold promise: It would wean the ...