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Two articles on ethanol, EPA, and air quality; one conclusion: forget midlevel blends

August 14, 2007

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
airpollution, biofuels, E85, EPA, ethanol, midlevelblends

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 The headline for the first is "Agency Models Used To Predict Biofuels Emissions Rely On Outdated Data."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....continued

In a rush to produce, Ohio invites ethanol to pollute

July 25, 2007

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
airpollution, EPA, ethanol, globalwarming pollution, ohio, regulations

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...continued

Clarifying the recent CA ruling on 10% ethanol

June 19, 2007

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
airpollution, california, ethanol, lowcarbonfuelstandard

One of my favorite blogs, www.biopact.com, passed on some misleading reporting over the weekend in this post. As reported, on Friday the California Air Resource Board did in fact decide to allow blends of up to 10% ethanol with gasoline. This...continued

Nathanael Greene
Nathanael Greene
Director of Renewable Energy Policy
New York City
I coordinate NRDC's work on renewable energy--fuels and power--and policies that will advance them. For...
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