Omaha-based Green Plains said the commodity market conditions were responsible, including an oversaturated ethanol market.

In a notice filed with the state Department of Employment and Economic Development, the Green Plains Ethanol Plant in Fairmont said they temporarily laid off its 55 employees on January 17 due to ...

The study found producing one liter of ethanol in Minnesota requires 19 liters of water, compared to 2,100 liters of water needed in California. Producing ethanol in Minnesota and other Midwestern ...

Minnesota utility regulators on Thursday unanimously approved what would be the state’s first carbon dioxide pipeline, stretching 28 rural miles from an ethanol plant near Fergus Falls to the ...

Gopher State Ethanol’s St. Paul plant, the license for which expired in April, continues to operate while the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency considers its renewal application. Many nearby ...

on the technology and type of plants used. The University of Minnesota has released a study on the benefits of three types of fuels: gasoline, corn-based ethanol and cellulosic ethanol.

As new ethanol production plants have popped up they have created new jobs, but it hasn't all been rosy. Everyone wants more ethanol plants, just Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY). People have begun to ...

ethanol prices follow energy prices, which have dropped to the January lows. This has pulled plant margins well off the record levels seen just last fall and idled plants in Iowa and Minnesota.