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  • The move blocked the EPA from calculating a biofuel's worldwide carbon footprint due to land use changes when determining its eligibility for federal subsidies.

    The Progress Report: The Future For Farmers 2009

  • It has a much higher NEB or "net energy balance" than ethanol from either corn or sugar cane (NEB is the ratio of the biofuel's energy output to the energy input required to produce it).

    Chris McGowan: Gas, Grass Or...Corn: Nobody Rides For Free 2009

  • If that production takes place on land formerly in non-agricultural uses, stored carbon is presumably released into the atmosphere from the land conversion and added to the biofuel's carbon intensity score.

    Bob Dinneen: A Fair Accounting of Greenhouse Gases For All Potential Transportation Fuels 2009

  • Now, the Environmental Protection Agency has indicated it plans to measure each biofuel's emissions based partly on the ripple effect that its production in the U.S. can have overseas, and is preparing to seek comments on a proposal.

    If a Tree Falls in the Forest, Are Biofuels To Blame? It's Not Easy Being Green 2008

  • PLEITGEN: But Germany says it's not the end of the country's biofuel's blending and that there are environmental benefits.

    CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2008 2008

  • Political support for an energy bill that establishes a new Renewable Fuel Standard has waned as food producers have inaccurately blamed grocery price increases on ethanol and environmentalists have disingenuously claimed that biofuel's ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is "insignificant."

    Advanced Biofuels Need a Much Bigger Market 2007

  • And while the higher grain prices have cut into biofuel's profitability, it has prompted farmers to plant more acreage, which means more grain to handle and ship across the Corn Belt and overseas.

    The Other Women to Watch 2007

  • Though the Defense Department has said using more renewable energy will reduce the need for fuel convoys in the battle zone, RAND questions biofuel's role in that effort, saying that any alternative fuels -- either with biofuel blends or coal-to-liquid technology -- would still require those fuel convoys or compound logistical challenges on the front lines.

    NYT > Home Page By DINA FINE MARON of ClimateWire 2011

  • The great contribution of Francisco Angulo's patents, this is why its incalculable economic value, is exactly that this principle is used to the biofuel's production and comes from the carbon of any organic waste.

    WN.com - Articles related to Pregnant women can enjoy one cup of coffee a day 2010

  • Angulo's patents, this is why its incalculable economic value, is exactly that this principle is used to the biofuel's production and comes from the carbon of any organic waste.

    WN.com - Articles related to Pregnant women can enjoy one cup of coffee a day 2010

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