The Sugarcane Blog

News Clips

• Business Technology: Using Smokestack Gases to Pump Oil February 10, 2010
  Carbon dioxide pouring from smokestacks hardly has a reputation as a valuable commodity. But one company has launched a series of projects to see if it can use the refuse of the industrial economy to breathe new life into tired oil fields.
• Tea Party members must start offering solutions February 9, 2010
  Whether the Tea Party movement hits or misses the mark depends on answers to questions such as these ("Tea Party activists take aim, but many miss target," Our view, Political rebellion debate, Friday):
• Democratic Climate Revolt February 8, 2010
  The Obama Administration has been moving full-speed ahead on anticarbon regulation, never mind waiting for Congress to pass a bill. But now opposition is building among senior Democrats, with two powerful committee Chairmen introducing a ...
• The Art Of Being Santa Fe February 7, 2010
  I CAN'T remember how or why it came to be dawn when I first saw Santa Fe from a bus window. It was my first time in New Mexico, the fulfillment of a long-held dream: to visit the land that had enflamed my imagination when as a teenager I'd ...
• Home Cooking with Chef Douglas Rodriguez; A Miami chef has spent years tinkering with Cuban cuisine. Now he plans a trip to its source February 7, 2010
  Miami-reared chef Douglas Rodriguez, a pioneer of the Nuevo Latino movement, the guy who made uptown stars out of down-home favorites yuca, malanga and plantain, says he's planning a culinary trip to Cuba.
• Renewable energy jobs and the future ; Jobs in industry could double in 15 years if U.S. adopts national standard February 5, 2010
  The number of clean-energy jobs in the U.S. would more than double by 2025 if the nation adopts a plan to get 25% of its electricity from renewable energy sources, says a report backed by energy firms.
• Volunteers Fly Supplies Into Hard-to-Reach Areas February 5, 2010
  LEOGANE, Haiti -- On a good day, a stray cow might be the only obstacle to landing the small planes bringing oxygen, crutches, baby formula and other supplies that will be put to immediate use at a hospital set up in a nursing school ...
• Obama Calls For Support In Promoting Clean Fuels February 5, 2010
  WASHINGTON -- President Obama moved on Wednesday to bolster the nation's production of corn-based ethanol and other alternative liquid fuels and ordered the rapid development of technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions from the ...
• Panel rejects ethanol funds; Southland group says no to $11 million in stimulus money to set up fueling stations. February 5, 2010
  A regional panel Thursday turned down nearly $11 million in federal stimulus dollars targeted to build 55 ethanol fueling stations across Southern California, saying it had policy concerns about ethanol as an alternative to gasoline.
• Taste -- de gustibus: New Episodes Of Scientists Behaving Badly February 5, 2010
  This has not been the proudest of weeks for science. Twelve years after publishing an article purporting to prove a link between childhood vaccines and autism, the prominent British medical journal Lancet finally retracted the paper in its ...
• Obama unveils plan for alternative fuels Refiners say mandate for 2010 could hike costs at the pump ENERGY: Refiner says mandate 'unfair' February 5, 2010
  WASHINGTON - Saying he wanted to reduce the nation's "dependence on foreign oil," President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced a raft of initiatives designed to boost the use of biofuels and make coal-fired power plants cleaner. In a ...
• EPA to boost ethanol usage February 4, 2010
  WASHINGTON - The Obama administration cleared the way Wednesday for more ethanol to be used in cars, trucks and airplanes after government scientists ruled the fuel is greener than they previously thought.
• Investment Dollars Flow To Green Energy Start-Ups February 4, 2010
  Start-ups developing products aimed at wringing every last drop of efficiency from green technologies have become the standouts in the increasingly crowded field of renewable energy.
• White House boosts biofuels; Corn ethanol, 'clean coal' are winners in Obama energy strategy February 4, 2010
  WASHINGTON The Obama administration gave a boost to the corn and coal industries on Wednesday, announcing a series of moves to accelerate biofuel use and deploy so-called clean coal technology in power plants.
• A boost for corn-based ethanol?; EPA STANDARD FOR BIOFUELS Agency, in shift, says climate may benefit February 4, 2010
  The nation's farmers got a big boost Wednesday when the Obama administration issued new biofuels guidelines that could open the way for large increases in the production of corn-based ethanol.