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Tag Archives: environmental protection agency
Industrial and Environmental Biotech in the Blogosphere
This week we start off with a United Nations report that urges caution on biofuels. Green Inc, a New York Times blog writes, “The study concluded that whether a biofuel is climate-friendly or not depends largely on whether it is based on crops or production residues. Biofuels of the latter category were generally considered beneficial for the environment, and generating electricity locally from waste materials was found — in most cases — to be more Read More >
Biofuels & Climate Change
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Tags: biofuel, Biofuel Technology, biofuels, biotechnology, cellulosic, climate change, Climate Change, environment, environmental protection agency, ethanol, Food and Fuel, food crisis, food vs. fuel, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change, Sustainability, sustainable energy
Tags: biofuel, Biofuel Technology, biofuels, biotechnology, cellulosic, climate change, Climate Change, environment, environmental protection agency, ethanol, Food and Fuel, food crisis, food vs. fuel, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change, Sustainability, sustainable energy
Visualizing the indirect effects of oil
It has been pointed out numerous times on this blog (here, here and here) that you can’t have a true comparison of fuels if you account for the direct effects of all fuels and the indirect effects of only one. But that is what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Air Resource Board (ARB) have proposed. Both the EPA in their proposed RFS II rules and ARB in their Low-Carbon-Fuel-Standard have calculated the Read More >
Corn Growers Try to Understand Indirect Land Use Change
The National Corn Growers Association’s recent “Land Use: Carbon Impacts of Corn Based Ethanol 2009” conference highlighted the confusion the issue of indirect land use change has engendered for farmers. Chuck Zimmerman of AgWired summed it up in a report from the conference: Do you understand things like indirect land use when it comes to regulations via departments like the EPA due to the RFS? Me either. And I’ve sat in on conferences and discussions Read More >
Biofuels & Climate Change
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Tags: biofuel, biofuels, California Air Resources Board, carbon debt, corn ethanol, environmental protection agency, EPA, ethanol, indirect land use change, international land use change, Land Use Change, life cycle analysis, lifecycle analysis, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, renewable fuel standard, U.S. EPA
Tags: biofuel, biofuels, California Air Resources Board, carbon debt, corn ethanol, environmental protection agency, EPA, ethanol, indirect land use change, international land use change, Land Use Change, life cycle analysis, lifecycle analysis, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, renewable fuel standard, U.S. EPA
Piping in the Tar Sands
Previously on this blog, I posed this question: Ethanol or Tar Sands? With Canada as the largest supplier of petroleum to America, it was a simple question: do we want to get the additional transportation fuel we need from domestic, renewable sources or from clearing Canadian forests? Well, we got an answer of sorts late last week when the U.S. State Department issued a permit to Enbridge Energy Corp. to build a 326-mile pipeline from 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
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