The chain's grocery stores no longer will send food waste to landfills; instead, biogas generated by the waste will help power a distribution center.

A novel chemical pathway could address the high cost of transporting cellulosic materials to make diesel fuel.

Within a year, a pilot plant in Indiana will start converting the stalks and leaves of corn plants into diesel and jet fuel. The plant will use a novel approach involving acid as well as processes borrowed from the oil and chemical industry, which its developers hope will make fuel at prices cheap enough to compete with petroleum.

Dozens of firefighters and emergency workers rushed to an explosion at a biomass plant south of Minneapolis on Thursday, but no one was hurt and no hazardous materials were released, officials said.

German researchers have found a way to overcome one of the problems with renewable energy -- the fact that it is not always available -- by linking different options in a unified system.

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