Op-Ed By Bruce Dale, Daily News-Register
To paraphrase Ronald Reagan’s famous line: There they go again.
On opinion pages around the country, including this one, a procession of critics has taken to lambasting domestically produced renewable fuels in general and ethanol in particular. The latest entrant into the debate is syndicated columnist Walter E. Williams, who recently [...]

Engineered E. coli proves efficient at churning out the biofuel.
By Alexandra M. Goho, MIT Technology Review
In a push to find better biofuels to reduce gasoline consumption and lower greenhouse-gas emissions, scientists have genetically engineered E. coli that is highly efficient in producing butanol, a promising new type of biofuel. The new technology could speed up [...]