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The RFS and the corn-soy-deforestation connection

January 4, 2008

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
biofuels, brazil, corn, globalwarming pollution, markettransformation, rainforest, soybeans

December's Science carried a wonderfully insightful letter from William Laurance from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. (Here's the link to the letter, if you have a subscription, or Climate Progress has pasted it in full here.) In the letter, Laurance...continued

Biofuels in the news

November 20, 2007

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

Tags:
biodiesel, biofuels, corn, energybill, ethanol, renewablediesel, RFS

I haven't posted as much recently, but not for lack of interesting news items. Here are three bits from the last day or so: First, Darren Goode reports for Congress Daily (subscription required) that Rep. Dingell thinks that a CAFE...continued

National Geographic on biofuels

September 18, 2007

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

Tags:
biodiesel, biofuels, cellulosicethanol, corn, ethanol, nationalgeographicmagazine, soybeans

National Geographic Magazine has a good article on biofuels in the October issue. It's the cover story in the hard copy, and you can see the article online here. The article does a good job of covering the field in...continued

Hypoxia and the corn surge

July 27, 2007

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
corn, deadzone, ethanol, gulfofmexico, hypoxiczone, nitrogen, waterpollution

Earlier this week, Bloomberg News carried an article titled: As ethanol demand grows, so does "Dead Zone" in Gulf of Mexico. A few things are not in dispute here, the hypoxic zone in the Gulf is growing and corn cultivation...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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