EPA move to water down standard could reduce demand for corn as producer profits slide

Alternative fuel becomes competitive again as Brent trades above $79 a barrel

Synthetic Genomics aims to produce cost-competitive biofuel on a large scale by 2025

Government criticised for not implementing promised policies

Chief executive transformed focus of Yorkshire power business from coal to biomass

Raízen Energia plans fivefold rise in output from second-generation biofuel facility

Collaboration with Craig Venter biotech doubles oil content to industrially useful level

Two new refineries planned even as domestic fuel sales reach a plateau

Fuels America cuts ties with RFA after report of deal with Carl Icahn

Ministers plan to limit or ban crop-based renewable fuel to encourage use of waste

Billionaire gains on investment in oil refiner ahead of rule change

Cars and trucks required to burn more renewable fuels from next year

International footballer Mathieu Flamini kept his biotech company secret from family and teammates

Brazilian and Japanese groups plan to produce 2m tons of sugarcane pellets a year by 2025

Price drop rocks profits for cooking fat

Rise follows Obama administration’s move to prescribe billions of gallons of ethanol use next year

Investors hope for similar wood pellet deal with Brussels

Next-generation ethanol from agricultural waste threatened by economics and US politics

2 Sisters installs £50m plant to covert waste into energy to run its factory

ArcelorMittal invests €87m in new process that cuts emissions

Shares in waste gas-to-liquid fuel operator fall 19%

Pressures from government targets to the tumbling oil price bear down on the industry