Score One for Corn: In Battle Over Biofuel, a Rare Setback for Big Oil
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The Environmental Protection Agency announced it would not change the rule mandating a rising percentage of ethanol to be…
The Environmental Protection Agency announced it would not change the rule mandating a rising percentage of ethanol to be…
The benefit to the climate of using biofuels as a substitute for fossil fuels has been sharply contested for years; much of the…
Debates about the merits of biofuels have been going on for at least a generation. My favorite clip from the early, oil-crisis…
Great Lakes BioEnergy Research Center in 2008. (Photo: Open University) Biofuels are usually regarded as inherently carbon-neutr…
Ever since the 1973 oil embargo, U.S. energy policy has sought to replace petroleum-based transportation fuels with alternatives.
Some of the latest papers on climate change mitigation are shown below. First a few highlighted papers with abstracts and then…
The policy debate over the decade-old federal Renewable Fuel Standard is largely a battle between two giant competing industries…
Biofuels have for years divided energy experts and environmentalists. Critics say that they displace farmland and cause…
The carbon footprint of ethanol and other gasoline replacements has always been controversial. Here's more fuel to the fire.
A long-standing assumption in science is being put into question.
I admit to a certain fascination with the informal “law of unintended consequences.” I think this is a very useful concept and…
A new study in the US has underlined existing evidence that biofuels, designed to save emissions by replacing the petrol and…
A new study from University of Michigan researchers challenges the assumption that crop-based biofuels such as corn ethanol and…
Years of number crunching that had seemed to corroborate the climate benefits of American biofuels were starkly challenged in a…
Biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel are not anywhere near as environmentally friendly as previously thought. A study by…