Climate & Environment
The pinyon pines and juniper trees that fill the high desert, seen by many as an invasive scourge, are drawing interest as a source of renewable energy.
Feb. 11, 2024
California
They believe they’ve found a succulent solution to climate change and drought.
Sept. 17, 2024
Business
The overhaul could shift a program focused on gas, diesel, and other liquid fuels to one aimed at decarbonizing transportation.
Dec. 1, 2022
Politics
California is leading the nation into a new era of climate-friendly fuel, or “biofuel,” made out of animal fat, cooking oil and methane from cow manure.
March 23, 2022
California has touched off a biofuel boom in pursuit of climate action. But environmental activists and analysts fear an unwelcome chain reaction in agriculture.
March 24, 2022
Phillips 66 said its Rodeo refinery near San Francisco will make “renewable diesel,” gasoline and jet fuel from used cooking oil, fats, greases and soybean oils.
Aug. 12, 2020
A Southern California petroleum mogul whose enormous fortune was long suspected of being criminally derived was convicted in Utah federal court of fraud and money laundering.
March 16, 2020
President Trump ordered federal agencies to shift course on relieving some oil refineries of requirements to use biofuel such as corn-based ethanol.
Aug. 23, 2019
Science & Medicine
Researchers transformed components of rapeseed oil to create a biodiesel fuel. (Rahkendra Ice / AAAS)
June 16, 2017
Food
The people of London may be fueled primarily by tea, but the city’s busses are powered by coffee.
Nov. 20, 2017