Last night's "60 Minutes" featured a report from correspondent Dan Rather about ethanol. The tone of the story was suggested by its title: "The Ethanol Solution." Rather and producer Michael Rosenbaum ...

Jul. 10—ONIDA, S.D. — The ethanol plant explosion that rocked Onida on Sunday afternoon is still under investigation by the South Dakota State Fire Marshal. Witnesses in the area said they heard and ...

The list of potential Hoosier ethanol plants is nothing short of astounding for a state that had just one ethanol-fuel distillery as recently as 2005. Beyond the six ethanol plants now operating and ...

Tim Pawlenty’s call Monday for scaling down ethanol tax incentives underscores efforts already under way by congressional supporters of the corn-based additive to hasten the transition from a ...

NEW YORK/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Biofuels pioneer Archer Daniels Midland took another step toward abandoning its pure-play ethanol assets on Friday, the latest sign of the industry's struggles with U.S.

During the past several months, as lawmakers and energy experts have warned of a looming energy crisis, one alternative to gasoline that has been considered is ethanol, an alcohol fuel produced from ...

NEW ORLEANS -- By now most sportsmen are acquainted with the growing list of unexpected environmental penalties the nation (and world) is paying for the rush to ethanol mandates. Wildlife acres ...

Amid rising gasoline prices and falling corn prices, ethanol may be poised for a comeback of sorts, even if only a temporary one. Even though conventional wisdom is that crude has to reach about $100 ...

SAN PIERRE, IND. — The air smells clean and sweet off the sprawling corn and spearmint fields, but for this unincorporated town of 156, it is the smell of failure: the failure to reap the rewards of ...

WASHINGTON - One morning last year in March, Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, welcomed into his office George Damiris, the CEO of Dallas-based refining company ...

* Photo: Dan Winters * Prologue The Chemistry__On a blackboard,__ it looks so simple: Take a plant and extract the cellulose. Add some enzymes and convert the cellulose molecules into sugars. Ferment ...

Ethanol (ethyl alcohol) is the alcohol used to create beer, wine and other alcoholic beverages. Ethanol is also produced as an alternative fuel to gasoline. In the U.S., more than 9 billion gallons of ...