Oct. 12, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Publications
In November, the EPA will make a decision that could mitigate the higher food prices and job losses we're seeing across the country and abroad right now thanks to our federal biofuels mandate–the Renewable Fuel Standard. In August, eight sta...
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Oct. 5, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Publications
When Congress established the Renewable Fuel Standard –our federal biofuels mandate – they probably weren’t hoping to incentivize invasive species, choke rivers, or increase wildfires. But, if the EPA approves giant reed (Arundo ...
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Aug. 7, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
Today a bipartisan group of 26 senators urged EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to use her authority to reduce the corn ethanol mandate in the Renewable Fuel Standard. With record droughts spreading across the country, corn harvests are shrinking an...
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Aug. 6, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
If you haven't noticed from the frostbite-inducing air conditioning in your office yet, it's been hot this summer. Really really hot--and dry. In fact, more than half of the counties in the country have now been labeled "disaster areas" by the Dep...
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