UT, Genera Energy Harvest Hybrid Poplar In Next Step Toward Bioeconomy
A small stand of poplar trees harvested from a University of Tennessee AgResearch Center is set to help scientists progress further down the path toward low-cost, high-quality biomass and a bioeconomy....
View ArticleUSDA Awards Funds To Grow Wood Energy And Wood Products Markets
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell today announced over $8.5 million to expand and accelerate technologies and strategies that promote the use of wood in commercial...
View ArticleOregon Biomass Collaborative Awarded USDA Funding
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon is applauding the U.S. Department of Agriculture decision to award a groundbreaking project with funding to continue its innovative work using wood waste for renewable...
View ArticleBio-Based Jet Fuel: WSU Research Takes Off
Today’s synergy is tomorrow’s energy. That is one principle underlying Washington State University’s collaborative, multidisciplinary work in biofuels – work that could pave the way toward sustainable,...
View ArticleUSDA Report: Biobased Products Contribute $393 Billion, 4.2 Million Jobs
A new report released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) shows that in 2014, the biobased products industry contributed $393 billion and 4.2 million jobs to America’s recovering...
View ArticleUSDA, DOE Announce Interagency Biomass Research And Development Initiative...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), announced that up to $9 million in funding will...
View ArticleNEWBio Project Concludes, Advances Biomass Energy Efforts
The land stretching between New England and the Ohio River is a critical region dominated by agriculture and forests, but also hosts four of the largest metropolises in the nation with rapidly...
View ArticleWSU Research Focuses On Lignin-To-Fuel
From: Wood Bioenergy Editors Washington State University Tri-Cities associate professor Xiao Zhang is targeting the use of lignin—a common material that makes the cell walls of plants rigid—to create...
View ArticleEPA Letter To Congress Promotes Biomass As Carbon-Neutral Solution
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acting administrator Andrew Wheeler sent a letter to the House and Senate Committee on Appropriations, detailing the steps taken to ensure consistent federal...
View ArticleUSDA Forest Service Extends Comment Period
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service is extending the public comment period on proposed changes to modernize how the agency complies with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)....
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