Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
Starting today, we're running a series of print and internet ads trying to sharpen the distinction between biofuels done right and biofuels done wrong. The animated web versions of the ads are running on the front page of Politico.com today....continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Yesterday, in a major step forward for biofuels policy, the Massachusetts governor, senate president, and speaker of the house jointly called for the adoption of a low-carbon fuel standard. The LCFS is a technology-neutral, performance based approach to reducing the...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Solving Global Warming
Thanks to Vickie Patton over at Environmental Defense for this information. Yesterday Citigroup downgraded coal stocks "across the board" in no small part because the industry has failed to respond to the growing perception (realization, I would say) that coal companies...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
On Friday, Treehugger posted the results of a recent Carnegie Mellon study comparing the lifecycle global warming pollution emissions of liquid coal fuel and a plug-in hybrid car running on regular gasoline. Because all the carbon in liquid coal fuel...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Solving Global Warming
David Roberts in the Gristmill makes a good observation today about the coal industries often simultaneous claims that coal is the only solution (regardless of the problem) and all that next generation coal needs to work is lots and lots...continued→
