by Kate Howard | Jul 12, 2010 | Environment
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Bio-based products from laundry detergent to mechanical pencils to tires were showcased at the 2010 World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology & Bioprocessing Conference. Many states and countries are making moves toward...
by Rebecca Dolan | Jul 7, 2010 | Environment
WASHINGTON—The government may be saying full steam ahead on biofuels, but some scholars say the merits of alternative fuels still are debatable. “Why is it that we think that bioenergy has the potential to save greenhouse gas emissions?” asked Timothy Searchinger, a...
by Kate Howard | Jul 6, 2010 | Environment
Get the Flash Player to see this content. A series of witnesses on day four ended the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings. Now all that’s left to do is wait. (Kate...
by Rebecca Dolan | Jun 29, 2010 | Environment
WASHINGTON— Earth’s climate change problems have no “planet B” solution, but focusing on increased investment in alternative fuel technologies could be the best plan B option, according to experts at an oil spill conference this week. Monday’s event, which brought...
by Rebecca Dolan | Jun 24, 2010 | Environment
WASHINGTON—Amid tensions surrounding the offshore drilling moratorium, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar defended the measure Thursday on Capitol Hill. A judge in Lousiana struck down the ban earlier this week. The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources,...
by Janeen Wynn | Jun 8, 2010 | Environment
Beth Holloway makes her first public appearance since Jordan van der Sloots murder confession of a Peruvian woman at the opening of a resource center in her daughter’s memory. WASHINGTON – One day after the key suspect in the Natalee Holloway case...
