Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Yesterday in California, a group of twelve developers and investors in next generation biofuels (including Vinod Khosla) released a letter to the California Air Resource Board supporting the development of rigorous GHG accounting for biofuels. While the letter supports CARB's...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Twenty-three scientists (a different 23 from this 23) sent similar letters to the EPA and USDA and the California ARB calling on these regulators to "stay the course" in terms including emissions from land-use change in the assessment of emissions...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
As I mentioned in my post over the weekend, a handful of environmental and conservation groups sent a letter [link fixed] to EPA today calling on the agency to comply with the letter of the law and protect the environment...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Hard to believe that my last post was more than a month ago. Things have been happening so fast and furiously of late that it feels just like yesterday and also like years ago. Now that the election is over,...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
First I wrote about how a group of scientists had called on California to at least temporarily not include GHG emissions from indirect land-use change when looking at the emissions of biofuels. Then I wrote about how Tim Searchinger, a...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Two weeks ago, I wrote about a letter written to CARB by a group of scientists calling on CA to at least temporarily ignore global warming emissions from indirect land-use change when looking at biofuels. On July 2, Tim Searchinger...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Yesterday a group of scientists sent a letter to the head the the California Air Resource Board urging the agency to basically ignore the new and uncertain modeling showing that biofuels made from some feedstocks can actually increase global warming...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Today I testified before the Massachusetts Advanced Biofuels Task Force on what the state should do to promote biofuels. Here's my testimony, which boils down to encouraging them to adopt technology-neutral, performance-based policy and ideally adopt a low-carbon fuel standard....continued→
