When I first began my career, a wise old-timer gave me a piece of advice that I took to heart. He said "When you are planning and executing a project, it is important for you to do what you say you are going to do. People are going to make ...

I am freshly arrived back on the U.S. mainland, with a couple of stops before I head back to Hawaii. I have been reading about energy developments during my travels, and finally wrote something on the flight from Europe yesterday. What has prompted me to write was a report that ...

By now you have probably heard that the EPA has postponed issuing guidelines on whether to allow ethanol blends of higher than 10% into the gasoline pool. Going up to 15% ethanol blends would allow ethanol producers to put a lot more of their product into the market, which ...

In a move that wasn't really a surprise, today the EPA announced that they are not yet ready to approve ethanol blends above E10 for automobiles:EPA Notifies Industry Group on Status of Ethanol Waiver RequestWASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that it ...

According to the EPA, they are putting together a new rule set that would reduce the amount of metal waste dumped into water supplies.

Last year when the Renewable Fuel Standard was established, the ethanol mandate was increased to 36 billion gallons per year. A big portion of that was to be cellulosic ethanol, but there had to be a demonstrated greenhouse gas reduction in order for cellulosic ethanol to qualify for the ...

No big surprise here, and I have been advising people that there was very little chance that the EPA would grant the waiver, but they have officially denied the ethanol waiver request from the state of Texas:EPA denies Texas governor's ethanol waiver requestEPA Administrator Stephen ...

Now for a public service announcement. Yesterday I received a mass-mailer from the EPA asking for help publicizing a sustainability competition. Since this is a topic that's very important to me, I thought I would publish it here. The competition is open to graduate and undergraduate students, and the deadline ...