Washington DC - February 17 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced $144 million in loan guarantees to assist 54 rural businesses through funding made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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Washington DC - February 5 - The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) proposed policy options that provide needed incentives to support U.S. job growth in commercial scale biorefinery projects for production of advanced biofuels, biobased products and renewable specialty chemicals.

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Washington DC - December 9 - The American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Corn Growers Association, the Biotechnology Industry Organization and the American Seed Trade Association have submitted a request for the United States Supreme Court to review a case which banned the planting of biotech alfalfa.

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Washington DC - December 8 - U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced that a second round of funding opportunities for transformational energy research projects that will be made available through the Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy(ARPA-E).

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Washington DC - December 7 - U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the selection of 19 integrated biorefinery projects to receive up to $564 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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Washington DC - December 1 - As demand for water from various sectors increases and places additional stress on already constrained supplies, the effects of expanded biofuel production may need to be considered.

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Washington DC - November 25 - Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have found that it might be more cost-effective, energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable to use corn stover for generating an energy-rich oil called bio-oil and for making biochar to enrich soils and sequester carbon.

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Washington DC - November 13 -  The U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Energy announced projects selected for more than $24 million in grants to research and develop technologies to produce biofuels, bioenergy and high-value biobased products.

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Washington DC - August 5 - U.S Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that more than $327 million in new funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will go toward scientific research, instrumentation, and laboratory infrastructure projects.

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Washington DC - August 3 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is making it easier for consumers to identify biobased products through the release of its proposed BioPreferredSM labeling rule.

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Washington DC -July 17- A bipartisan coalition of members in Congress have introduced a bill this to slow rising food prices by redirecting subsidies for gasoline refiners who use corn ethanol to the producers of “second generation” biofuels made from waste products.

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Washington DC - July 15 - With help from a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant, the East Bay Municipal Utility District is pioneering a method of generating renewable energy using food scraps.

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Washington DC - July 10 - The Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate brings together 17 developed and developing economiesin L’Aquila, Italy in a meeting co-chaired by President Obama and Prime Minister Berlusconi.

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Washington DC - July 10 - Water and energy are inexorably linked; energy is needed to supply water and large quantities of water are needed to support the development of energy. However, both may face serious constraints as demand for these vital resources continues to rise.

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Washington DC - July 2 - American farmers have adopted genetically engineered crops widely since their introduction in 1996, especially corn, cotton and soybean varieties, according to a new USDA report.

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