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DEEP Addresses Concerns About 'Cart Before Horse' On Renewable Energy Study
The Hartford CourantEnergy industry watchers made comments Thursday on the state's plan to change how it categorizes renewable energy sources like solar, wind and hydropower at a public hearing in Hartford. The plan — out as an energy department study and pending...Tags: Energy, Renewable Energy, Alternative Energy, Environmental Issues, Conservation
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An agency-by-agency guide to Obama's 2014 budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has proposed a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2014 that aims to slash the deficit by $1.8 trillion over 10 years, raise taxes on the wealthy and trim popular benefit programs including Social Security and...Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology, Mental Health, Budget Control Act of 2011
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EPA fines Aberdeen ethanol plant
A company that owns an ethanol plant in Aberdeen has agreed to pay fines for violations of federal Environmental Protection Agency rules. The EPA says Advanced BioEnergy has agreed to pay $136,500 to settle violations at its ethanol plants in Huron...Tags: Environmental Politics, Renewable Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Punishment, Ethanol
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Meat inspector furlough looms
LAS VEGAS - Sequestration could force the U.S. Department of Agriculture to furlough up to 6,000 meat inspectors for up to two weeks, plunging the meat industry into chaos and raising consumer prices, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Feb. 7 in...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Layoffs and Downsizing, Environmental Issues, Unemployment, Thad Cochran
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Vilsack assures support for ethanol
LAS VEGAS - If the ethanol and biodiesel industries need reassurance of support from the Obama administration, they got it here on Feb. 8 from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. But they also got some advice on how to convince people outside their...Tags: Renewable Energy, Chuck Hagel, YouTube, Ethanol, Environmental Issues
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Corn prices nosedive
Corn prices have plummeted nearly 90 cents a bushel since Thursday, when two key USDA reports showed the nation has more corn in storage than previously thought and farmers plan to plant a record number of acres this spring. On Thursday morning, May...
Tags: Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture, Consumer Goods Industries, Petroleum Industry
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Harvesting of bio-based feedstocks for cellulosic ethanol
JOHNSTON, IOWA - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a new federal-private collaboration with DuPont to safeguard natural resources on private lands used to supply bio-based feedstocks for cellulosic ethanol production. The joint agreement...Tags: Energy Resources, Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture, Natural Resource Industry
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Land bulls, bears and squirrels
The neighborhood farmer grapevine, fiber optic for years now, was set abuzz two weeks ago with news that a 237-acre piece of the township for sale at $12,500 per acre. Whoa, right? Well, the land sports five-year averages of 199 bu. for corn and 60...Tags: South Dakota State University, Federal Reserve, Farms, Ethanol, Champaign (Champaign, Illinois)
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Calif. farmers team up to convert beets to ethanol
FIVE POINTS, Calif. (AP) - Amid the vast almond orchards and grape fields that surround Five Points in California's Central Valley, a once-dominant crop that has nearly disappeared from the state's farms is making a comeback: sugar beets. But these...Tags: Energy, Energy Resources, Renewable Energy, U.S. Congress, Agriculture
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Biofuel maker Gevo wins round in patent war
Gevo, the company that converted a Luverne, Minn., ethanol plant to make high-value alcohol for chemicals and plastics, declared victory over a competitor on March 21 in the first of 15 patent lawsuits over its genetically engineered yeast and other...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Biotechnology, Litigation, Justice System, Ethanol
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Energy beet juice can be stored for ethanol production
The need for producing environmentally friendly fuel alternatives to displace the use of petroleum in the U.S. has scientists at many research universities studying the feasibility of potential biofuel feedstocks. At North Dakota State University, the...Tags: Science and Technology, Renewable Energy, Beets, Alternative Energy, Engineering
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Distillers grain prices remain strong
03/18/13 - Ethanol coproduct feed prices have increased since the beginning of the year, albeit not to the record prices posted in August 2012 when corn price peaked. Prices for dried distillers grains plus solubes (DDGS) were about $258/ton in South...Tags: Renewable Energy, Agriculture, Ethanol, Environmental Issues, Marketing
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