12:58 PM MDT | June 18, 2013 | Francinia Protti-Alvarez
Chromatin (Chicago) a developer of sorghum seeds for agriculture and renewable energy; and the Sorghum Checkoff (Lubbock, TX), a producer-funded organization, have entered into a multiyear agreement to develop higher-yielding grain sorghum hybrids for...
Calysta Energy (Menlo Park, CA) and NatureWorks (Minnetonka, MI) have entered into an exclusive, multiyear collaboration to research and develop a practical, world-scale production process for fermenting methane—a potent greenhouse gas (GHG)—into...
Emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and dust from electricity-generating large combustion plants (LCPs) in the European Union have fallen since 2004, the European Environmental Agency (EEA; Copenhagen) says in a report, Reducing air...
Alcoholes del Uruguay (ALUR; Montevideo) inaugurated on 12 June its second biodiesel production facility, the company has announced. The plant, at Capurro, Uruguay, has annual capacity for 65 million liters of biodiesel. Glycerine will also be manufactured as...
Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) and ThyssenKrupp Unde have begun marketing BMS's previously announced oxygen depolarized cathode (ODC) technology worldwide, the companies announced today. The process makes chlorine using 30% less electricity compared with...
The European Union needs to look at the broader picture in terms of carbon emissions, Maria van den Hoeven, executive director at the International Energy Agency (IEA; Paris), says in an interview with Bloomberg. "Climate change has a long-term horizon...
The global estimate of technically recoverable shale gas has increased 10%, to 7,299 trillion cubic feet (tcf) -- 32% of the world’s total estimated natural gas resources of 22,882 tcf....
BioAmber (Plymouth, MN) has signed an agreement with IMCD Group (Rotterdam) for the distribution of BioAmber's biobased succinic acid, Bio-SATM, in Europe, BioAmber announced today. The distribution agreement targets customers in the resins and coatings...
UPM (Helsinki) and cellulosic sugar start-up Renmatix (King of Prussia, PA) have entered into a nonexclusive joint development agreement in the area of biochemicals, the companies announced today. Under the terms of the deal, both companies will further...