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Will the biofuels industry hang itself in the climate bill?

June 18, 2009

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

Tags:: biofuels, lifecycle, renewableenergy, RFS, waxmanmarkey

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→

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Bioenergy in the balance in the climate bill debate

June 9, 2009

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

Tags:: ACES, bioenergy, biofuels, biomass, markettransformation, renewableenergy, RES, RFS, waxmanmarkey

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→

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: 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...; more→

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