Crude Awakening: Biobased Solvent Could Help Clean Up Gulf

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. —The bleeding of oil into the Gulf of Mexico may be tapering off, but the work of cleaning up the coastline’s sensitive marshland and beaches will last for years. Some of the same innovators who produce biodiesel are eager to help.

“Biodiesel is America’s first commercially available advanced biofuel, and one of its main benefits is displacing crude oil. Now biodiesel producers can make a green product that can also clean up that same oil,” said Steve Howell, technical director of the National Biodiesel Board.
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