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Tag Archives: biofuel
Data Also Disproves Food v. Fuel Claims
The Wall Street Journal’s Scott Kilman reported earlier this week on a letter sent by General Mills, the Grocery Manufacturers Association and Kraft Foods to Ag. Sec. Tom Vilsack, asking for reduction of trade tariffs on sugar. From Kilman’s article and the letter, it’s clear that grocery manufacturers are once again trying to distract public attention from their price increases by pointing a finger of blame at biofuels. Last year, you may recall, Roll Call Read More >
Why ILUC Theory Bears No Resemblance to Reality
Iowa State’s Bruce Babcock has written a defense of the current economic equilibrium models used by the EPA and California Air Resources Board, in light of the fact that the models’ assumptions about soybean production and acreage have turned out wrong. Babcock frames the debate over international land use change as “whether the models used by CARB and EPA are accurate enough to support regulations.” There is, however, a larger question over whether the models are Read More >
Biofuels & Climate Change
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Tags: biofuel, biofuels, Bruce Babcock, California Air Resources Board, center for agricultural and rural development, Climate Change, environmental protection agency, EPA, indirect land use change, international land use change, Land Use Change, lifecycle analysis, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, renewable fuel standard
Tags: biofuel, biofuels, Bruce Babcock, California Air Resources Board, center for agricultural and rural development, Climate Change, environmental protection agency, EPA, indirect land use change, international land use change, Land Use Change, lifecycle analysis, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, renewable fuel standard
Strange Bedfellows Indeed
The Environmental Working Group, Friends of the Earth, the Grocery Manufacturers Association, the National Marine Manufacturers Association, the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association, and the Natural Resources Defense Council have cosigned a series of letters to Senate leaders opposing additional study of the theory of indirect land use change. These groups would like to lock in the EPA’s current measurement of indirect land use change, which includes heavy penalties for corn- and soybean-based biofuels. The Read More >
Global Sustainable Bioenergy Initiative Discussed at World Congress
Professor Lee Lynd of Dartmouth, who is also the CSO of Mascoma, addressed a plenary session the 2009 BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology. He gave additional insight on the article he coauthored with David Tilman et al in a recent issue of Science and discussed the initiative that led to the article. According to Lynd, it has been suggessted that we should forego the biofuel option, but before we do we should ask three Read More >
New Biofuels Manifesto
University of Minnesota Professor David Tilman, Princeton University Visiting Scholar Tim Searchinger, Dartmouth Professor Lee Lynd and others involved in the debate over the environmental and social impacts of biofuels have published in Science magazine what amounts to a new manifesto on how biofuels can be done right. The authors list five biofuel feedstocks that are the best in terms of sustainability — “lower life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissions than traditional fossil fuels and with little or Read More >
