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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - For now, they amount to little more than snow-dusted stubble on 30 otherwise barren acres. But in Jeff Skousen's mind, the switchgrass seeds planted on three former strip mines ...

University of Illinos Urbana-Champaign professor DoKyoung Lee is lead author on two new studies showing the economic benefits and ecosystem services advantages of switchgrass as a feedstock for ...

Switchgrass has gripped Midwestern soils for millions of years, but soon the earthbound prairie grass could fly. New studies from the University of Illinois identify economic and environmental ...

The fastest way to start a fistfight among environmentalists is to bring up the topic of biofuels — plant-based liquid fuels like ethanol that could potentially take the place of petroleum. Biofuel ...