The 400-plus-mile plane journey between Manaus and Urucu is like an overture to a green opera. From the airplane you gaze in awe at the vastness of the Amazon forest, a sea of trees that lies quietly and powerfully on the ground below, looking...
Category - Biodiesel
Two Brazilian financing institutions have entered a partnership to spur bioethanol development. The Brazilian Innovation Agency, FINEP (Research and Projects Financing), and Brazil’s National Development Bank (BNDES) have established a...
Neste Green 100 diesel, made by a Finland-based refining and marketing company called Neste Oil, will be tested by private individuals and Neste Oil employees, the company says. “This is the first time anywhere that a premium renewable diesel...
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Brazil announced a few days ago that as of January 2010, the country’s fleet of diesel fuel vehicles will be required to run on a 5 percent biodiesel blend, up from 4 percent at present. The raise is...
