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Sustainable Bioenergy, Farms, and Forests - April 25, 2014

April 25, 2014

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A weekly look at sustainable bioenergy, farm, and forest policy issues


 

April 25, 2014

 


 

‘Biofuels Worse than Gasoline’ Headline Delivers Another Damaging Blow to Biofuels

It’s been a long week for defenders of biofuels. On April 20, Nature Climate Change published research from the University of Nebraska, "Biofuels from crop residue can reduce soil carbon and increase CO2 emissions". At its core, this is a mathematical exercise about bad farming practices, not one based in reality. Unfortunately, the news headline 'biofuels worse than gasoline' cast another damaging blow to biofuels – the only viable petroleum replacement developed so far.

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