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Bipartisan groups in US Senate, House introduce Open Fuel Standard bill, requiring 85 percent of vehicles to be E85, M85 or biodiesel-ready by 2015

Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Ken Salazar of (D-CO) Colorado and Sam Brownback (R-KS) have co-sponsored the Open Fuel Standard Act of 2008 that would mandate that 50 percent of new vehicles by 2012 h...

US Senate passes Wall Street bailout bill after biodiesel, wind, solar tax credits added

[caption id="attachment_3745" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="capitol"][/caption] In Washington, the US Senate included extensions of the renewable energy tax credits in the Wall Street bail...

EPA raises US Renewable Fuel Standard to 10.21 percent for 2009

In Washington, the US Environmental Protection Agency officially raised the 2009 Renewable Fuel Standard to 10.21 percent, or 11.1 billion gallons of ethanol, compared to 7.76 percent or 9 billion g...

National Conservation, Environment and Energy Independence Act introduced in US House: oil drilling, coal-to-liquid, Renewable Energy Reserve Fund planned

23 members of the US House of Representatives have introduced the National Conservation, Environment and Energy Independence Act that would lift many restrictions on offshore oil drilling, while provi...

US House Agriculture chairman calls for 15 percent ethanol blend, reorganization of USDA

In Washington, the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee called for lifting to ethanol blend from 10 percent to 15 percent, in order to avoid the blend wall of 14 billion gallons of ethanol ...

$500 billion US stimulus package to include $50 billion for green investments, report says

In New York, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the $500 billion economic stimulus package is likely to contain as much as $50 billion for green related stimulus projects. The stimulus would ...