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Big Oil and environmentalists alike are mad about the EPA’s new summer ethanol rules
There could be more ethanol in your gasoline this summer. What does that mean for farmers, clean air, and the climate?
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Could termites teach us how to save the world?
A new book looks at what these little pests can teach us.
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EPA scolded for failing to turn in its very important ethanol homework
The agency will reassess fuel farming by the end of next year.
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The crazy true story of how George W. Bush secretly tried to raise the gas tax
Turns out that when Dubyah called for the country to kick its oil addiction, he meant it. But then things got messy.
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The GOP’s king corn problem
Republicans contort themselves in order to champion big-government ethanol support.
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The answer to our fuel woes might be monster sweet potatoes
Corn ethanol is a good idea in theory — what’s more renewable than a fuel source you plant and harvest every year? But corn is such an inefficient energy source that if we wanted to meet our biofuel goals with corn ethanol alone, they’d have to shoulder out every other crop. You know what yields […]
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Antibiotics in your meat? The ethanol industry might be partly to blame
Many farmers feed livestock spent grain from the ethanol process in order to lower feed costs. New research confirms what some have long suspected: Those byproducts contain antibiotics from the ethanol distilling process.
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Critical List: Warmest March on record for 25 states; LEGO hermit crab shell
A round-up of the news of the day.
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In 2014, corn biofuel is out, wood biofuel is in
Biofuel sounds like a pretty good idea — down with power plants, up with regular plants! — but if the country switches over to corn ethanol we will basically be unable to grow any other crops. A new study has calculated that corn destined for ethanol production would have to take over 80 percent of […]
