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Is Lowering Ethanol Levels A Good Idea?
2013-11-21 18:24:32| Beef
The Environmental Protection Agency announced last week that it intends to reduce the target for renewable fuels in 2014. For instance, the 15.2-billion-gal. target for 2014 for ethanol distilled from corn and biodiesel from soybeans is less than the original target of 18.15 billion gals. established in the legislation. Its a good idea. Its a bad idea. It wont make a difference. Don't know. read more
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EPA Proposal Set to Cut Ethanol Mandate
2013-11-20 09:00:48| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
The Environmental Protection Agency wants to reduce the amount of ethanol and other biofuels the current law initiated in 2007 requires to be blended with gasoline. Learn more about the EPAs reversal in its ethanol mandate. [More]The Article EPA Proposal Set to Cut Ethanol Mandate appeared first on Automotive Digest.
EPA Decision to Lower Ethanol 2014 Requirements Commended
2013-11-19 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Last week (15 November), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed 2014 renewable fuel (RFS) standard that will require refiners to blend up to 15.21 billion gallons of biofuels into gasoline next year, which represents the first-ever reduction in a biofuels mandate that Congress created during the George W. Bush administration.
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USDA Comments on EPA Ethanol Plan
2013-11-18 19:28:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has issued the following statements on EPA's proposal of 2014 Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS): “The Obama Administration remains committed to the production of clean, renewable energy from homegrown sources, and to the businesses that are hard at work to create the next generation of biofuels. read more
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EPA weighs environmental consequences of ethanol with proposed cuts
2013-11-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PBS: SUMMARY The EPA announced that better fuel efficiency has led to proposed cuts in the amount of ethanol required to be blended into gasoline next year. These changes come amid revelations over the environmental impact of increased U.S. corn production. Hari Sreenivasan examines the story with Dina Cappiello of the Associated Press. Transcript JUDY WOODRUFF: Next: the changing requirements for ethanol in gasoline and bigger questions over its wider use in recent years. Today, the Obama administration...
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