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Biofuels, Agriculture and the Environment
Remarks by EWG Midwest Vice-president Craig Cox to the 2009 Kansas Natural Resources Conference. Read the Remarks
America Needs a True Renewable Energy Policy
A coalition of environmental groups, including EWG, released a comprehensive biofuels platform highlighting new scientific evidence that indicates that biofuel production and use results in a net...
Ethanol’s Federal Subsidy Grab Leaves Little For Solar, Wind And Geothermal Energy
As Congress and the incoming Obama administration plan the nation's next major investments in green energy, they need to take a hard, clear-eyed look at Department of Energy data documenting corn...
Ethanol-Gasoline Fuel Blends May Cause Human Health Risks and Engine Issues
Growth Energy, a consortium of ethanol producers, petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to allow 50% more ethanol in gasoline than is currently permitted in a move designed to expand the...
The Unintended Environmental Impacts of the Renewable Fuels Standard
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...
America's Food-to-Fuel Gamble
When the Bush administration and Congress required gasoline refiners to blend in 15 billion gallons of corn-based ethanol by 2015, they made the impossibly rosy assumption that American farmers would...
Stewardship for all Creation
What will it take to get presidential candidates to commit to stopping human-caused global warming?
Outside the Box: Green goes gray and more
Enviroblog's new weekly column, Outside The Box, features stories outside the norm and refusing to conform.
Outside the Box: Ship shape & smelly energy
Enviroblog's new weekly column, Outside The Box, features stories outside the norm and refusing to conform.
McDiesel anyone?
McDonald's has announced today that it will reuse its supply of cooking oil to manufacture biodiesel fuel for its UK delivery trucks. Biodiesel will be created by combining rapeseed oil and cooking...
Deceptive incentives
During the G8 meeting last week, the leaders of some of the world's richest countries discussed their interest in paying the global south to keep rainforests intact.
The tale of a frustrated bio-diesel consumer
Two years ago, I bought a diesel vehicle. I was living in South Dakota and the idea was to immediately become a consumer of a homegrown fuel, in this case bio-diesel. The bio-diesel produced in South...
Feed the Hummer; forget the hunger
The ethanol boom launched U.S. corn prices to a ten-year high of $4.38 per bushel this past March. As gas tanks gobble up more of our nation's corn supply, rising commodity prices may result in...
Perverse ethanol incentives breed more gas-guzzlers
President Bush and other ethanol proponents claim that pushing alternative fuels will reduce U.S. gasoline consumption. By developing a fleet of flexible-fuel vehicles that can burn E85—a fuel that...
UCBP: Update
In my inaugural post, I wrote that the integrity and independence of the $500 million biofuels research partnership between BP (formerly British Petroleum) and UC Berkeley would depend on whether the...
Ethanol 'not a silver bullet'
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is wary of the President's ethanol plans and warns of increased food costs and the need for a broader approach to our energy crisis, with a greater focus on conservation...
Ethanol: solution or delusion?
In his State of the Union Address last January, President Bush vowed to decrease gasoline consumption in the US transportation sector. “Let us build upon the work we've done and reduce gasoline usage...
Brazilian President Lula admonishes developed countries on climate change
Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva has stepped up his allegations against developed countries, demanding that they take a larger role against climate change. President Lula's accusations...
More reactions to Bush's ethanol plan
Today North Jersey's The Record highlights some salient observations illuminating the reality behind Bush's ethanol proposal. Eric DeGesero, executive VP of the New Jersey Fuel Merchants Association...
Bush's 'biofuel boosterism' boondoggle?
In the State of the Union address, in addition to tougher mileage standards, President Bush called for increased reliance on renewable fuels, namely ethanol. The corn-based fuel additive, which has...