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CHAMPAIGN-URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) — A team of researchers at the University of Illinois is working to create a more sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Now, these scientists have turned to a prairie grass to ...

When President Bush mentioned switchgrass as a potential source for biofuels in his 2006 State of the Union Address, not many would have guessed that a species of grass could gain so much popularity ...

Switchgrass has gripped Midwestern soils for millions of years, but soon the earthbound prairie grass could fly. New studies from the University of Illinois identify economic and environmental ...

The Ottumwa Generating Station began producing electricity from burning coal in 1981 and now hosts one of the nation's few experimental biomass fuel projects. Here is a look at some of the highlights ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Switchgrass, a crop touted by venture capitalists and environmentalists alike as a next-generation ethanol feedstock, yields about five times more energy than it takes to grow it, ...

Will switchgrass, a tall, resilient and fast-growing native plant once familiar to pioneers, become the next cash crop for farmers in states in the Chesapeake Bay drainage? In a convergence of ...

It's natural, it's all-American, it's a native that was here before any humans arrived, and it's green in many ways. It's switchgrass. We've blogged about this prairie grass that once stood taller ...

The fastest way to start a fistfight among environmentalists is to bring up the topic of biofuels — plant-based liquid fuels like ethanol that could potentially take the place of petroleum. Biofuel ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - For now, they amount to little more than snow-dusted stubble on 30 otherwise barren acres. But in Jeff Skousen's mind, the switchgrass seeds planted on three former strip mines ...