Researchers at Virginia Tech have found a way to make biodegradable packaging stronger while using less energy in the process ...

Americans show growing support for plant-based foods to protect health, reduce climate impact, and raise awareness.

Ag Secretary Russell Redding and Pennsylvania State University College of Agricultural Sciences Dean Troy Ott launched the ...

Starch and oils are known as storehouses of carbon in plants. However, the way in which carbon resources are allocated during metabolism in plants remained unknown. Now, however, using a forward ...

The US needs to roughly double its quotas for biomass-based diesel to help support the industry and sustain momentum for ...

Some producers of the biofuel have been depending on feedstocks of used cooking oil, or UCO, from China. Now, that trade ...

As the global population grows, the demand for food and energy is increasing even as extreme weather events make crops more ...

Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) are leading a bipartisan group of 16 senators in urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to restore integrity, stability and growth t ...

If the EPA adopts the proposed Renewable Volume Obligation Levels, South Dakota as an ethanol producer will get to continue and produce a lot of ethanol and get credits in return, the state produces ...

Braskem, leading global biopolymer producer , today announced that Braskem Siam, the joint venture between Braskem and SCG ...