Energy and the Environment

It was more a wavering non-waiver than another government oldie-but-goodie, a non-denial denial. Still nothing in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Dec. 1 delay to grant the ethanol industry’s request to boost the current 10-percent ethanol limit in gasoline to 15 percent suggested it won’t happen — and soon.  

Filed under: Politics, Commodities, AgricultureRegarding the alternate fuels for vehicles project, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has slow-tracked the proposal to mix larger amounts of ethanol with gasoline, commonly known as E15, or 15% alcohol/85% gasoline, The New York Times reported. Currently, the maximum blend is 10% and is common in many regions of the U.S.The EPA has sent the E15 idea back for more study. What would be the...  

A bipartisan coalition of members of Congress questions the Environmental Protection Agency's recent decision to delay increasing the ethanol blend wall in gasoline from 10 percent to 15 percent. U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Peoria, along with six of his colleagues, sent a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson this week. Their letter said the EPA's decision inhibits their ability to improve the quality of fuels and help the nation realize...  

Eager to help decrease our greenhouse gas emissions, spur job growth and foster the development of cellulosic ethanol, the ethanol industry wants the Environmental Protection Agency to increase the amount of ethanol blended with gasoline from 10 to 15 percent. digg_url ="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/12/ethanol-blend-15-percent/"; The feds appear willing to play along, and the EPA says it expects to make [...]  

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said that it will make a formal decision in 2010 on whether to allow a 15 percent blend of ethanol in domestic gasoline, after initial tests showed that cars can run on the fuel. The plan to raise the limit from the 10 percent blend put forward in 1978 has been wanted by ethanol producers. The ethanol industry says that allowing 15 percent blends of ethanol in gasoline, called E15, would create...  

When the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would not meet the Dec. 1 deadline for a decision on whether to approve a higher blend of ethanol at the nation's gas pumps, the move signaled more than a delay of an anticipated decision. It might very well be the first chime of the bells tolling for ethanol.  

From the department of "how did this not happen 10 years ago," the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared today that greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health as well as the environment. The announcement, which comes as the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is getting started, doesn't mean that the U.S. needs to impose climate change regulations immediately. But it does mean that the EPA might make the first steps towards...  

Governors John Hoeven and Chet Culver, chair and vice-chair of the 36-member Governors' Biofuels Coalition, today said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's announcement will likely allow higher ethanol blends, such as E15, and is a step in the right direction. At the same time, they urged the agency to move forward with the waiver as quickly as possible. The Governors' Biofuels Coalition first called for research and testing on...  

BETHANY BEACH -- The Environmental Protection Agency has delayed a decision on whether larger amounts of ethanol can be mixed into gasoline until the completion of studies on its effect on engines, but indicated it may approve the new fuel for newer ...  

The battle to save the planet sometimes comes down to a battle to be heard, and amid the din of the information superhighway, that is becoming harder and harder. But one environmental campaigner is showing superlatively how it should be done.  

Man's best friend could be one of the environment's worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle.  

Seeking to turn an environmental problem into an economic opportunity, high-tech companies in resource-poor Japan are mining mountains of toxic e-waste for precious materials.