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The Ford Motor Company is championing world-wide efforts to use more agricultural resources in cars, trucks and other products. This push to increase the use of sustainable, renewable ag materials echoes Henry Ford's efforts to build indestructible car bodies from soybean-based bioplastics and his early steering wheels from wheat straw.

The National Biodiesel Board played host to a handful of unlikely visitors to kick off its conference Tuesday in Fort Worth.

President Donald Trump signed a Section 201 trade action this afternoon that places a 30 percent tariff on imported photovoltaic solar cells.

After nine months of protest from solar industry stakeholders, the Trump Administration has approved a 30 percent tariff on imported photovoltaic cells, as recommended by the United States Trade Representative (USTR).

Consistent pricing ensures that natural gas will continue to dominate as the American fuel of choice through the next two years, the Energy Information Agency says.

Natural gas leads an upward trend in fossil fuel production that will continue to break records through 2019, according to Energy Information Administration forecasts.

The future of energy relies on going small by employing microgrids and focused usage analysis, according to a whitepaper released by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).