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October 29, 2009
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- biofuels, ethanol, markettransformation, renewableenergy, taxcredits, VEETC
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→
October 7, 2009
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- biofuels, ethanol, markettransformation, renewableenergy, taxcredits, VEETC
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→
October 5, 2009
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- biofuels, ethanol, GAO, taxcredits, VEETC
On Friday, the Government Accountability Office released a major report largely about the risks of expanded corn ethanol: Biofuels: Potential Effects and Challenges of Required Increases in Production and Use. Unfortunately, as the report points out, beyond lifecycle GHG emissions,...continued→
January 14, 2009
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- billiongallons, biofuels, ethanol, greenyear, LCFS, markettransformation, RFS, stimulus, taxcredits
At his Senate confirmation hearing today, Governor Vilsack smartly dodged questions about allowing increased blends of ethanol in regular gasoline (subscription required), and focused on his support for advanced biofuels. That's good, but it highlights the need for a new...continued→
December 19, 2008
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- biofuels, ethanol, markettransformation, policy, stimulus, taxcredits
This post on the Wall St. Journal's Washington Wire blog added some specificity to the rumors I've been hearing that the biofuels industry is pushing for some financial support as part of the economic recovery package likely to move early...continued→
September 19, 2008
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- biofuels, GM, google, pluginhybrids, taxcredits, vinodkhosla, volt
Wednesday Google and GE announced a partnership to work on smart grid technology together to help enable plug-in hybrids. This partnership makes a lot of sense in terms of a marriage of software and hardware. Plus if you put their...continued→
August 15, 2008
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- biofuels, boxer, bulwer-lytton, cellulosic, landusechange, markettransformation, poet, RFS, taxcredits, testimony
As you, my loyal readers, sweating away your August with hopefully better things to do than read my dribblings, will almost certainly not recall through the haze of July's global warming induced thunderstorms, back on July 10th, I testified before...continued→
August 7, 2008
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- biofuels, ethanol, foodprices, markettransformation, RFS, taxcredits, waiver
Today, the EPA rejected Texas's request to waive the renewable fuel requirements established under the renewable fuel standard. For EPA to have approved the waiver, the agency would have had to agree with Texas' argument that a) the corn ethanol...continued→
July 11, 2008
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- biofuels, foodprices, foodvsfuel, land, markettransformation, RFS, taxcredits, testimony
I went to Washington, DC yesterday and testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety. EPW has jurisdiction over the renewable fuel standard and this was their first oversight hearing...continued→
January 24, 2008
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- biofuels, europe, greenhousegases, land, markettransformation, taxcredits
Today is a good day for stories about the world waking up to the complexities of getting biofuels right. This post by FarmPolicy is a great summary of EU biofuels with lots of good links. My sense is that is...continued→
