Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
When I started working on biofuel policy back in 2008, there was a lot of criticism of corn ethanol because in some cases it had lifecycle emissions higher than gasoline. The CI of an electric vehicle charged with solar power is zero, and most of the biofuels fall somewhere in the middle [i].
Brag
JANUARY 4, 2023
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of a draft document entitled Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft) for public comment. billion gallons per year) in the growth of corn ethanol in the United States from 2002-2012 and may have played a more important role (0-2.1
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Acoel
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
2 – Knowledge Underlies Agriculture’s Climate Success Public agricultural research focuses on critical, widely-shared knowledge , yet public funding for agricultural research was cut by a third from 2002 to 2019. (To be most effective, easements should also be tied to using climate-friendly practices.)
Environmental Progress
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
The “climate policies” the authors refer to are ones that would make energy more expensive and result in more bioenergy use (the burning of biofuels and biomass), which in turn would increase land scarcity and drive up food costs. The IPCC comes to the same conclusion. [74] Fa, Carlos A. Peres and Jessica J. 18 (2007): 1778–1786.
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