Posted by Nathanael Greene in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Years ago, when I was young, I spent most of my time working on energy efficiency technology policy. Now I spend most of my time working of renewables, but from time to time, my colleagues forget and ask me questions...
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Last week I wrote about a corn ethanol plant would use waste coal for process energy and has been proposed for a small town in Pennsylvania. As I mentioned in that post, the proposed site for the ethanol plant, being...
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
In a little town in central Pennsylvania, a company called Sunnyside Ethanol, LLC (owned by Consus Ethanol, LLC) wants to build an 80 million gallon per year corn ethanol refinery that would get its heat and power from a waste...
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
On Friday, InsideEPA.com (subscription required) ran two interesting articles on ethanol and air quality. The headline for the first is "Agency Models Used To Predict Biofuels Emissions Rely On Outdated Data." The news here is as bad as it sounds....
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Put this in the category of cutting off your nose to spite your face: Yesterday, Ohio EPA proposed allowing ethanol plants to pollute more not because it's good for the environment but explicitly because it's good for business. With this...
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil
An interesting article in Environmental Science and Technology today connecting fertilizer use, water pollution, and agricultural subsidies. Much has been made about how the increased demand for corn to make ethanol will drive increased use of fertilizer and as a...
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
Back on April 30, the Washington Post ran an article titled "Fluorescent Bulbs Are Know to Zap Domestic Tranquillity - Energy-Savers a Turnoff for Wives." The articles was emailed around here within NRDC's Air&Energy program and provoked a hail storm of...
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