Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
On Friday, EPA released the findings of four independent peer-review panels that assessed the Agency's approach to measuring the lifecycle GHG emissions of different types of biofuels. All of the reviewers agreed that emissions from land-use change is an important...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
As I've written about over the last few weeks (here and here), our ability to require biofuels to actually be better than oil is under intense attack in the context of the climate bill and also under the budget appropriations...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Last week I wrote about the danger of industry-backed changes to the Waxman-Markey climate bill that could, perversely, incentivize deforestation and increase global warming emissions. Comparing the current bill language to the drastically weaker alternative advocated by Agriculture Committee Chairman...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
The pressure has been building on the Obama administration to release for public comment EPA's draft rule implementing the renewable fuel standard. EPA has had the draft ready since last October. Delay under the Bush administration was probably a good...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
On Friday, Kate Galbraith over at the NY Times wrote a blog post on a new study purporting to show that a low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) "cannot be efficient." Unfortunately, the authors missed the critical context for an LCFS,...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Today a group of 10 environmental organizations sent a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson urging her to put a proposed rule establishing GHG standards for biofuels out for public comment. The rule, which are part of the Renewable Fuel...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
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→
