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Cooking oil

Can you taste the fuels in your food? 5
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago To see fossil fuels in action on a farm, Amanda Little paid a visit to a Kansas corn grower and hitched a ride in his high-tech tractor. This is the fourth installment in a series of exclusive excerpts from Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells -- Our Ride to the Renewable Future.
Define 'clunker'

Cash for ... other things! 3
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
So Congress approved and President Obama signed an extension of the hugely popular (and not-really-so-green) cash-for-clunkers program. Woohoo! We can think of some better "Cash for ..." programs the government should be funding ...
Sugary surprise

Would you like some GMOs in your coffee? 93
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
About half of U.S. sugar comes from beets--and suddenly, 90 percent of sugar beets are genetically modified. Yum!
Deposing King Corn?

Corn ethanol approaches a moment of truth 33
Posted 7 months ago
Corn ethanol may have reached a turning point. But it is regulators, not legislators, who are in the driver's seat. A series of regulatory rulings may help to determine whether corn ethanol or soy biodiesel will play any meaningful role in our future biofuel mix.