biofuels

Construction begins soon in eastern Oregon for the first commercial-scale "torrefaction" facility in the country. If you don't know what that word means,…

A project to demonstrate that jets could someday be powered by logging leftovers from Northwest forests gets a culminating test Monday morning. A Boeing…

Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber has ordered the state's Department of Environmental Quality to toughen standards for car and truck fuels.Under the Clean…

Northwest farmers are trying to get into the business of biofuels.They know the jets of the future may run on oil from crops like canola seeds. But that’s…

Washington State University will lead a new federal research center focused on finding new biofuels for jet airplanes.Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell…