EU lawmakers back 6% cap on food-based biofuels

The European Parliament’s environment committee on Tuesday 24 February 2015 backed a new limit on traditional biofuels made from food crops that critics say stoke inflation and do more harm than good to the environment. Those seeking to promote a new generation of advanced biofuels made from seaweed and waste…

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Brewery combines wind, solar and biogas

Between biogas, wind and solar, Anheuser-Busch generates about half of its electricity from renewable energy to make beer at its Fairfield, California plant. The company is the largest in the US to use nutrients in its wastewater to make biogas, a process called bio-energy recovery systems (BERS). They also recover…

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