What to Cut, and NOT Cut

Lobbyists for polluting industries and opponents of environmental regulation have been tripping over one another to come up with self-serving lists of targets for the Congressional Super Committee as it labors to find ways to reduce federal spending and trim the deficit. The nation deserves a more thoughtful approach, one that recognizes that Americans want, and deserve, to... Continue Reading...

Corn Lobby Reaps Crops of Trouble

Last week, the corn lobby posted a blog that abruptly declared its independence from so-called “advanced biofuels.”  This announcement made it painfully clear that corn ethanol will never gain America independence from our dangerous oil addiction and that the evolution of advanced biofuels is near non-existent. Apparently, the corn ethanol lobby is sick of sharing the... Continue Reading...

Corn Lobby Gets Darwinian on Advanced Biofuels

By Craig Cox and Sheila Karpf The corn lobby has persistently sold misguided subsidies and mandates for corn ethanol as a bridge to the “next generation” of so-called “advanced” biofuels. The conventional wisdom was that infrastructure built to support inefficient and environmentally damaging corn ethanol would eventually benefit the nascent advanced... Continue Reading...

Biofuels policy is on the wrong road

For almost two decades, the Environmental Working Group has advocated for protecting vulnerable people from toxic contaminants, ending crop subsidies that encourage environmental harm and investing instead in conservation and sustainable development. And over the last half decade, EWG has analyzed the available scientific data and concluded that the nation’s biofuels policy... Continue Reading...

The Corn Ethanol Subsidy Wagon Loses a Wheel

Taxpayers, Soil and Water Win Over the Ethanol Lobby Something remarkable happened in Washington last week. In a historic, game-changing vote, the Senate voted to put America’s taxpayers and its soil and water ahead of special interests and the corn ethanol lobby. For more than 75 years, lobbyists for agri-businesses and commodity growers have worked hand-in-glove with... Continue Reading...