Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Recently, I posted a video and a narrative explanation about a critical accounting error that threatens to turn climate legislation into a big incentive for deforestation. Put as simply as possible, the House climate bill and the Boxer-Kerry Senate bill...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Last Monday, I posted a video about a critical accounting error that threatens to turn climate legislation into a big incentive for deforestation. Here’s a narrative version of the same description. If you’ve seen the video this should sound and...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Two weeks ago, I wrote about how Loni Kemp won a Farm Foundation contest for an essay laying out a greener biofuel tax credit. Today in DC, this reward was given with appropriate fan fair. Jeremy Martin at UCS also deserves lots of credit for helping to shape this idea. Here now for your reading pleasure is a short summary of how I would like to see the biofuel tax credits reformed based on all of Loni and Jeremy’s great work.continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Last Thursday, Science published a very important article by a group of prominent scientists and ecologist about a common error in accounting for carbon from biomass and bioenergy. This might seem really boring at first but it's critically important to...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Yesterday, the Farm Foundation announced the winning essays for it's 30-Year Challenge Policy Competition. One of two winners in the "Climate Change" category is Loni Kemp of Kemp Consulting, whose winning essay is titled: Greener Biofuels Tax Credits: A Policy...continued→
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
So Exxon announced a $600 million investment in algae biofuels today. The company reported profits over $45 billion last year, and this investment will be spread out over 5 or 6 years. Furthermore, half of it will go for in...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
As often as deforestation is decried as a driver of global climate change, it’s hard to believe that anyone would propose more deforestation as part of a climate bill. But that’s what is about to happen in the House of...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
At a "press availability" today EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson released the agency's proposed rule (EPA factsheet) to implement the new renewable fuel standard, which requires the first ever federal lifecycle greenhouse gas performance standard (EPA factsheet) for biofuels. Put more...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Thanks to the sharp eyes and quick reporting of Ben Geman at Greenwire (subscription required), we now know that OMB has finally released EPA's proposed RFS2 rule back to EPA. This means that once EPA addresses OMB's comments and the...continued→
