Starting in 2009, we've made a practice each spring of asking Friends of the Earth activists to vote on the year's biggest "biofool" -- to choose the person that did the most that year to promote the use of environmentally harmful biofuels. Results are announced April 1 -- Biofools Day!
Peterson held the Waxman-Markey climate bill hostage until a provision was inserted to repeal a law that directed EPA to account for all greenhouse gas emissions related to the production of biofuels. Peterson eventually got his way, weakening a bill that was supposed to reduce greenhouse gases, not deny their existence.
Click here to see more about the 2010 biofool of the year nominees.
Watch below to see Friends of the Earth president Erich Pica and energy campaigner Kate McMahon deliver the 2010 Biofool of the Year award to Rep. Peterson's Washington, DC office:
The global biofuels rush has provided a perfect new market for Monsanto's genetically modified plants, an inevitable ingredient of biofuel feedstocks. The agribusiness giant dismisses claims that biofuels are harmful for the environment or have anything to do with food price spikes and shortages.
Click here to learn more about biofuels and how they impact the environment.
