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Tag Archives: greenhouse gas
Environmentalists Want to “Stick” It to Farmers
Jason Hill of the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment wrote recently in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, asking why the Waxman-Markey climate change bill should treat agricultural emissions differently from energy and transportation emissions, with a “carrot-and-stick approach, one in which fossil fuels suffer the stick while agriculture feasts upon the carrot.” Hill’s primary objection to the bill is the amendments added by Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), which exempt agriculture and forestry from Read More >
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Tags: American Clean Energy and Security Act, biofuel, biofuels, climate change, Climate Change, climate change legislation, Collin Peterson, corn ethanol, Fargione, greenhouse gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, indirect land use change, international land use change, Jason Hill, Land Use Change, lifecycle analysis, renewable fuel standard, Searchinger, Tilman
Tags: American Clean Energy and Security Act, biofuel, biofuels, climate change, Climate Change, climate change legislation, Collin Peterson, corn ethanol, Fargione, greenhouse gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, indirect land use change, international land use change, Jason Hill, Land Use Change, lifecycle analysis, renewable fuel standard, Searchinger, Tilman
The Facts of Life on Waxman-Markey
You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have … the Peterson amendment to the Waxman-Markey bill, formally known as H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES). According to Grist contributor Meredith Niles, there are a number of positive inclusions in the amendment that were advocated by environmental groups. The good aspects, according to Niles, are those that will encourage improved agricultural practices. The bad Read More >
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Don’t Worry, Be Happy
The EPA has released its long-awaited proposed rules for the Renewable Fuel Standard, including calculations of the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions for various biofuels. Unlike California, the EPA is proposing to “discount” the greenhouse gas emissions of both biofuels and the baseline petroleum gasoline. The discount rate that EPA uses for most of the calculations it presents is 2 percent over 100 years, although it also proposes using a 0 percent discount rate and a Read More >
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Controversy on Discounting Greenhouse Gas Emissions
On March 13, Sens. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) along with 10 others sent a new letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson urging “EPA to refrain from including any calculations of the ILUC components in determining life-cycle GHG emissions for biofuels at this time.” The new letter referenced a letter sent in November to then-Administrator Stephen Johnson, which was signed by four of the current 12 signers as well as then Sen. (now Read More >
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California Proposes Numbers for Indirect Land Use Change Emissions
California issued a staff report last week for its “Proposed Regulation to Implement the Low Carbon Fuel Standard.” As expected, the rule proposes a measure of indirect land use change emissions for select biofuels – corn and sugarcane ethanol and soy biodiesel. The report defines the assumptions behind the analysis – in a word, that use of existing crops for biofuels reduces supplies, increases prices, and thereby induces agricultural expansion: Land use change effects occur Read More >
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