BioFuel Energy's Pioneer Trail ethanol plant in Wood River has resumed production after a previously scheduled shutdown of the plant, said Dan Simon, the company's executive vice president and chief operating officer.

This September the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance was lucky enough to be a part of the “Home Grown Village” at Farm Aid 2008. The Village was an educational experience filled with displays from organic farms, farm related youth groups and NGO’s. Visitors learned the value of sustainability, and local sourcing for food as well as being exposed to alternative energies and fuel technologies. The SBA presented important information on the facts and fiction about biodiesel today, and recruited ove

The folks in El Paso, Texas now have a way to get rid of their old, used cooking grease and fill up their gas tanks. This story from KVIA-TV in El Paso says it’s a new pilot program offered by the city to turn the grease into biodiesel: The service is free and available to residents who pay a solid waste disposal fee to the city. Officials advise residents to never wash cooking fats, oil or grease down the drain, as they can cause the sewer line to back up into homes or in the storm drains, w

A symposium for biodiesel feedstocks is slated for November 21st in St. Louis, Mo. The Center for Evergreen Energy at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center will host the event, designed to address some of the current challenges in biofuel feedstock research and production: Biodiesel producers, marketers and feedstock producers will hear from presenters including Monsanto, NASA, Enterprise-Rent-a-Car Institute and the National Biodiesel Board as well as scientists from the Center for Evergre

People can learn how to make their own biodiesel fuel at a workshop next week at Craven Community College. The college's Small Business Center will sponsor a lecture and all-day biodiesel workshop Thursday on the north side of the campus.