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EU Lawmakers Reduce Use of Food-Based Biofuel
2013-09-11 10:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The European Parliament voted Wednesday to significantly reduce the amount of biofuels made from food crops by 2020 to counter concerns over the energy source's environmental and ethical sustainability. Environmentalists argue biofuels made from sugar, corn or soybeans add as much or even more to greenhouse gas emissions as the fossil fuels they are meant to replace. Others are criticizing the burning of crops displaces food production and drives up prices for basic staples while there are still...
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Euro MPs to vote on new biofuel cap
2013-09-11 09:21:58| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The European Parliament is to vote on limiting the amount of food crops used to produce biofuel, amid fierce debate about their use.
White House reviewing U.S. 2014 biofuel targets
2013-09-05 20:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Environmental Protection Agency has sent its proposal for U.S. biofuel use targets for 2014 to the White House for review, as the agency races to avoid the delays that plagued the renewable fuel program this year. Next year's targets are due to be proposed this month and finalized in December. That timeline could slip, however, depending on the how long the White House's Office of Management and Budget takes to review the proposal it received late last week. As oil refiners face soaring...
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EPA grants Aemetis sorghum ethanol and biogas the D5 advanced biofuel RIN category
2013-09-03 22:30:46| Green Car Congress
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Biofuel project funded by UK leaves Africans without food
2013-09-01 20:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Thousands of people in one of Africas poorest countries are going hungry because of a biofuels land grab by a firm that receives funding from the Department for International Development, a charity claims. ActionAid accuses the Swiss company Addax Bioenergy of threatening livelihoods in rural communities in Sierra Leone, where it runs an extensive sugar-cane plantation. Addax, which will soon begin the first commercial shipping of biofuels from Africa to Europe, receives funding from a UK-based...
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