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EcoFactor: Supercar powered by bio-ethanol.
We all love supercars and we love them more when they take the greener route. Inspired by the iconic Cooper Climax F1, this green baby won’t let you down in any race, be it on a track or on a green...
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Calling climate change an urgent challenge, President-elect Barack Obama promised Tuesday that Washington would take a leading role in combating it in the United States...
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Massachusetts’ top securities regulator on Tuesday accused Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. of fraud over the investment bank’s sales of auction-rate securities...
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Hip-hop mogul Marion “Suge” Knight is facing felony drug charges and a misdemeanor battery charge in Las Vegas.
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A man whose groin was disfigured by a flesh-eating bacteria infection in prison has accepted a $300,000 settlement from the Washington Department of Corrections.
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A Democratic senator says Democrats are letting Sen. Joe Lieberman keep his prized chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite supporting Republican...
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Oil prices fluctuated Tuesday even as the government reported that gasoline prices recorded their largest drop ever in October and prices for home heating oil, natural...
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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told Congress on Tuesday that the administration remains firmly opposed to dipping into the government’s $700 billion financial...
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A fourth suspect has been arrested in the death of a Long Island lawyer who was shot during a botched ambush robbery that police say was set up by the lawyer’s...
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A Marine who sued Rep. John Murtha for defamation wants a federal appeals court to order the Pennsylvania Democrat to testify under oath in the case.
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Malia and Sasha Obama are in Washington with their mother checking out new schools.
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The father of Chief Justice John Roberts died Tuesday after a long illness, the Supreme Court said.
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AP, Cincinnati
The Kroger Co. has opened its biggest “Fresh Fare” store yet and plans more of the stores aimed at luring eat-at-home and natural foods shoppers.
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AP, Washington
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told Congress on Tuesday that the administration remains firmly opposed to dipping into the government’s $700 billion financial...
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AP, Boston
The former owners of a New Bedford leather goods factory raided last year by immigration agents will pay $850,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by workers who claimed the...
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AP, Minneapolis
United Airlines said on Tuesday that a federal judge has barred its pilot union and four pilots from activities that disrupt the airline’s activities.
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AP, Baghdad
Iraq’s prime minister has gone on national television to defend a security pact with the United States that his Cabinet has overwhelmingly approved.
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AP, Beijing
China on Tuesday dismissed suggestions that it is seeking to illegally obtain U.S. space technology after a scientist in the United States was convicted of violating...
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AP, Little Rock
Even as they struggle amid the slowing economy, some states are giving retailers back about $1 billion in sales taxes each year as reimbursement for acting as tax...
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Smoky skies cleared and once-whipping winds slowed to a standstill Tuesday, as another wave of those who fled Southern California’s ferocious weekend wildfires...
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Wall Street made a hesitant advance Tuesday, with investors refraining from making big bets in a volatile market battered by a stream of weak economic data.
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Expansion of vast sugarcane plantations across Brazil to meet growing worldwide demand for ethanol won’t harm the Amazon, a top Brazilian official said Monday.
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With increasing oil prices, and debates on how to reduce carbon emissions, many are looking forward to biofuel as a renewable and clean source of energy. But the U.S....
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EcoFactor: Alternative energy obtained from landfills.
Anybody with the slightest amount of common sense would know that landfills aren’t entirely bad as people...
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The Philippines is pushing the use of alternative fuels like biodiesel from coconut, palm, and jatropha; and ethanol from cassava, sugarcane and corn to reduce its...
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AP, Jefferson City
The Missouri treasurer’s office rejected financial incentives Thursday for an $82 million ethanol plant whose investors include the governor’s brother, a...
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There is great news for all of the environment friendly groups and the alternative fuel industry. With times more and more of Americans are drifting towards alternative...
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Eco factor: Enables us to produce biofuel that is both cheap and does not rely on food crops.
Producing biofuel from food crops has given way to a major argument about...
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The demand for ethanol is increasing and so is the demand for corn in U.S. As a result American farmers are increasing the plantation of corn on a massive scale which...
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. _ Ethanol’s wild ride has brought it quickly from political golden child to scapegoat for everything from soaring food prices and world hunger...
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Ethanol could be the fuel of the future thanks to studies done by researchers at Washington University. They have discovered a process by which fermenting bacteria are...
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According to the Nikkei Business Daily (via Tradingmarkets.com), Japan’s Suzuki Motor Company will begin selling cars that run completely on 100% ethanol in the US...
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The EFuel100 MicroFueler home-brews ethanol by fermenting a mix of table sugar and nutrient-treated yeast in the system’s 250-gal. tank.
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Some time ago, I read an article in a certain publication that if the United States to raise the import Brazilian ethanol, in fact would be changing the oil dependency...
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The Environmental Protection Agency has denied a request from Texas Gov. Rick Perry to cut the federal ethanol mandate in half for a year.
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It has been sometime now and we have constantly come across many alternate sources or the alternate fuel, Ethanol. But till date we have not been able to actually...
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Researchers at the University of Georgia have a developed a technology that can help in producing great amounts of ethanol from biomass such as grass, non-food crops...
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AP, Jefferson City
Missouri lawmakers face a long summer tackling some of the state’s thorniest agriculture issues, a list headlined by ethanol.
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AP, Washington
The Environmental Protection Agency is putting off a decision on Texas’ request to waive ethanol requirements for gasoline.A decision had been due Thursday. But...
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Gasoline prices have skyrocketed over the past few months. Economically, the escalation in gasoline prices is because it takes oil to make gasoline. The cost of...
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Brazil’s presidential chief of staff Dilma Rousseff delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of a five-day international conference on biofuels in Sao Paulo, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. Expansion of vast sugarcane plantations across Brazil to meet...
