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Let's Not Go Backwards on Biofuels: Fixing the Climate Bill's Biofuels Provisions

July 7, 2009

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

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ACES, agriculture, agriculturedepartment, biofuels, biomass, cleanenergy, forests, globalwarming, renewablefuelstandard, simplesteps

I welcomed the passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act last month. It is a good bill that gets us going down the road toward clean energy and climate solutions. But passing the bill in the House required...continued→

Missed Opportunities: What Congress Did and Didn't Do for America's Energy Future

October 9, 2008

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
biofuels, CAFE, energybill, gasprices, globalwarmingbill, offshoredrilling, oilshale, renewablefuelstandard, renewabletaxcredit, tarsands

Congress finally wrapped up its business last week. It was a challenging session filled with terrible economic news, soaring energy prices, and a great deal of election-year political theater. Now that the dust has settled, we can take a look...continued→