Each year, Hawaii Business honors outstanding small businesses in five categories. Pacific Biodiesel was nominated by Blue Planet Foundation and awarded the 2014 Editor's Choice Best Green Business Award! Pacific Biodiesel is honored to [...]

To download or view PDF version of Press Release CLICK HERE Wailea Beach Marriott Wins Excellence in Sustainability Award WAILEA, MAUI — The Wailea Beach Marriott Resort & Spa received [...]

Looking for a pre-Valentine’s Day shindig? It might be worth your time to hit the Portland Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 event. Check out the details on this great at [...]

A big Mahalo to Pu‘u O Hoku Ranch for their commitment to using sustainable, locally produced biodiesel!  The owner of the ranch decided to switch over to biodiesel over 5 [...]

A big Mahalo to Shaun Stenshol and Pamela Miedtke-Wolf of Bio-Beetle Rental Cars on Maui for their commitment to using sustainable, locally produced biodiesel!  Founded in January of 2003, Bio-Beetle [...]

A big Mahalo to Chip Hughes and his wife Charlene Avallone for their commitment to using sustainable, locally produced biodiesel! Chip and Charlene have been biodiesel users since 2004 when [...]

A big Mahalo to ProVision Solar, Inc. for their commitment to sustainable, locally produced biodiesel! The only solar electric firm in Hawaii to operate their work vehicles on 100 percent [...]

A BIG mahalo to the City and County of Honolulu for their commitment to sustainable, locally-produced biodiesel! The C&C Department of Facility Maintenance has been using a 20% biodiesel blend [...]

By Harry Eagar Maui News PUUNENE--Some technologies take awhile to move from the laboratory to the marketplace. Say, 120 years. When Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine, he envisioned running [...]

Pacific Biodiesel, Inc. today announced that their Nagano plant, built for Yoshida & Co., will be capable of making 600,000 liters / year of biodiesel from used cooking oil. The [...]

A Maul alternative fuel manufacturer has announced nearing completion of a new biodiesel production facility in Nagano, Japan, site of the 1998 Winter Olympics. Robert King, President of Pacific Biodiesel, [...]

Honolulu Advertiser KAHULUI—Pacific Biodiesel Inc. of Kahului has built a plant in Japan to convert used cooking oil into fuel. It is the first in a series planned for East [...]

KIHEI, HI - Starting on May 15, the boats used for Pacific Whale Foundation’s Eco-Adventures out of Maalaea Harbor will be fueled with biodiesel, a new nonpolluting fuel made from [...]

Alternative Fuels Today Dario Fo and Carlo Rubbia, two Italian Nobel prize winners, recently visited Italy’s Senate to promote alternative energy sources such as biodiesel, a cleaner-burning diesel fuel made [...]

By Edwin Taqji Advertiser Maui County Bureau Maui company turns waste grease into diesel fuel PUUNENE, Maui - A Maui company that developed a small-scale plant to turn waste cooking [...]

By Jan Tenbruggencate The cooking oil-based diesel fuel business is slowly but steadily growing in Hawaii. Pacific Biodiesel, which converts used restaurant and hotel cooking oil into a fuel that [...]

MAALAEA - In observance of Earth Day, the Pacific Whale Foundation will offer one hour cruises aboard it’s Ocean Odyssey and Ocean Spirit catamarans on Sunday afternoon. The foundation also [...]

Bob and Camille Armantrout kicked-off the 2003 Cross-Country rally in their “BioPod”, a 2001 VW New Beetle TDI that has been fueled since day one (over 30,000 miles ago!) on [...]

By Harry Eagar, Staff Writer Maui News KAHULUI - Maui Electric Co. has negotiated a reduction of a $1.56 million fine for air pollution with the Department of Health Clean [...]

By Terrence Sing Pacific Business News Robert King's Bio Beetle got its first sip of fuel made from 100 percent fish oil last week. King’s 2001 Volkswagen bug is proof [...]

This is the ninth year for the ASME-Hawaii Section annual Outstanding Project /Design Competition. The award was created in 1996 to give recognition to deserving mechanical engineering-type projects or designs [...]

Shenzhen, China - In a ceremony in Shenzhen on Sunday October 16, Pacific Biodiesel, Inc., a Maui-based renewable fuels company, was named one of the eight recipients of the BlueSky [...]

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson was on Maui today, making the Pacific Biodiesel refinery his first stop after a breakfast meeting in Wailea. Located at the Central Maui Landfill, [...]

Pacific Biodiesel Texas was conceptualized in July, 2005 by Willie and Annie Nelson and Bob and Kelly King of Pacific Biodiesel, Inc. The Nelsons had first been introduced to biodiesel [...]