One of America's largest gas station chains is pouring millions into turning soybeans into renewable biodiesel, and it makes ...

A Portuguese oil company, Galp Energia, plans to announce Wednesday that it is building a 6,500-barrel-a-day plant to make diesel fuel from vegetable oils using a method akin to refining oil. The ...

Biotech start-up has genetically optimized microbes to produce diesel fuel from sugar cane. Its first plant, in California, will be followed by a commercial plant in Brazil. Martin LaMonica is a ...

The Detroit Diesel Company has been in the business of manufacturing diesel engines for over eighty years. Founded in 1938, the company was initially known as General Motors (GM) Diesel Division. The ...

Diesel engine exhaust contains pollutants such as nitrogen oxides and soot particles. Although governments from the late 1990s onward encouraged their uptake in the belief they were more ...