Entries tagged "ethanol"
The latest victim is Cascade Grain Products LLC, a Clatskanie, Ore.-based company that churns out 113 million gallons of ethanol per year.
Food is the body's fuel, and increasingly, that of cars, factories and our homes. And that's creating friction, and bankruptcy, throughout the American heartland. Pittsburg, Texas-based Pilgrim's Pride Corp., one of the nation's largest chicken producers, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Dec. 1 and is a member of Food Before Fuel, which is an interest group that promotes rolling back laws mandating the production and use of renewable fuels such as ethanol made from foodstuffs such as corn. Corn is also used for chicken and other animal feeds. ...
Just how many ethanol and biodiesel plants are there, anyway? An observer of the bankruptcy courts would be forgiven for thinking every town in the Midwest had its own -- as well as some other points around the country. ...
In news that may disconcert anti-Wall Street labor activists, Ron Burkle, self-proclaimed friend of labor, may be caught up in a labor scandal in Brazil via his investment in ethanol producer Brazil Renewable Energy Co, or Brenco....
