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Ethanol Report 2012

» Read more... | Published February 17, 2012

America Needs a True Renewable Energy Policy

EWG worked with a coalition of leading environmental groups to produce a comprehensive platform to address the critical and immediate energy challenges facing America.
» Read more... | Published February 9, 2009

Loopholes in Climate Bill “Offset” Provisions

Lets Major Polluters off the Hook
» Read more... | Published July 10, 2009

Presentation :: Biofuels, Agriculture and the Environment

The role biofuels should play, if any, in a new economy built on renewable energy has become highly controversial. Policy makers must to chart a future course for biofuels based on a clear-eyed assessment of the pluses and minuses of biofuels as a renewable energy source.
» Read more... | Published February 11, 2009

Ethanol’s Federal Subsidy Grab Leaves Little For Solar, Wind And Geothermal Energy

EWG analyzed a little noticed April 2008 report from the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA) and found that the corn-based ethanol industry received $3 billion in tax credits in 2007, more than four times the $690 million in credits available to companies trying to expand all other forms of renewable energy, including solar, wind and geothermal power.
» Read more... | Published January 8, 2009

The Unintended Environmental Impacts of the Renewable Fuels Standard

Time to Change Direction in Biofuel Policy
U.S. farmers are planting fence-row-to-fence-row to produce enough corn to supply ethanol plants and at the same time meet burgeoning demand for food and feed crops. The intensification of corn production—spurred in large part by exploding ethanol production—threatens to exacerbate global warming, and harm water quality, water supply, and wildlife.
» Read more... | Published August 29, 2008
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