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Category Archives: Environmental & Industrial
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The Biofuels Update
Yesterday I was sitting around wondering what I was going to write about today, searching for inspiration, when it hit me — I’ll ask my twitter friends! So I posted, “looking for the latest, greatest, hottest, info/news on biofuels.” And that’s where the ideas came from for today’s post — Thanks to @EpicBear and @tomkimmerer for your suggestions, I really appreciate them. Biofuels Digest reports that confirmation hearings, begin next Tuesday for Energy Secretary-designate Dr. Read More >
Europe to Study Indirect Land Use
The European Parliament on Dec. 17 adopted amendments to the Renewable Energy Sources Directive, raising targets for production of biofuels but at the same time setting strict sustainability standards to monitor and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the use of road transport fuels. The Parliament’s adopted text makes clear that it intends to calculate climate change emissions from international land use, but that the science is not currently available to do so: Whereas (11) In Read More >
Biofuels & Climate Change
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Tags: biofuel, biofuels, climate change, Climate Change, European Parliament, European Renewable Energy Sources Directive, Greenhouse Gas Emission, indirect land use change, international land use change, Land Use Change, life cycle analysis, lifecycle analysis, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, Renewable Energy Sources Directive, renewable fuel standard, Sustainability, sustainable energy, United Nations Climate Change Conference
Tags: biofuel, biofuels, climate change, Climate Change, European Parliament, European Renewable Energy Sources Directive, Greenhouse Gas Emission, indirect land use change, international land use change, Land Use Change, life cycle analysis, lifecycle analysis, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, Renewable Energy Sources Directive, renewable fuel standard, Sustainability, sustainable energy, United Nations Climate Change Conference
Yes, Virginia
One of the most strikingly circular arguments put forward to support inclusion of current estimates of indirect land use change emissions in both California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard and the EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard Life Cycle Assessment is that these estimates are so large. The University of California Berkeley Letter to EPA from Michael O’Hare et al. and the previous letter to California’s Air Resources Board by the same group (Mark Delucchi et al.) are Read More >
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Tags: biofuel, biofuels, California Air Resources Board, climate change, Climate Change, environmental protection agency, EPA, ethanol, greenhouse gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change, Land Use Change, life cycle analysis, lifecycle analysis, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, Mark Delucchi, media, Michael O'Hare, renewable fuel standard, U.S. EPA, University of California Berkeley
Midnight Rule
The EPA apparently missed the statutory deadline (Dec. 19) to publish the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the Renewable Fuel Standard. The Bush administration last summer announced that it would not promulgate new rules during its final 30 days, in order to stay away from “midnight rulemaking.” That self-imposed deadline (Dec. 20) also passed. The rule is said to be a victim of lobbying on the part of the biofuel industry and environmental groups. Marianne Read More >
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Tags: biofuel, biofuels, climate change, Climate Change, economy, environmental protection agency, EPA, ethanol, Greenhouse Gas Emission, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change, life cycle analysis, lifecycle analysis, media, Oil prices, rainforest, renewable fuel standard, U.S. EPA
How Much Corn Is in a Barrel of Oil?
A segment on the Discovery Channel’s show “How Stuff Works” caught my eye this week and prompted that question. The segment points out that Xanthan gum, fermented from corn syrup, is used in oil drilling. Xanthan is combined with the drilling mud used to cool drilling equipment, and it helps to clear dirt and rock from the mud as well as maintain a pressure cap on the bore hole. The primary markets for Xanthan gum Read More >
