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By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
(reposted with Permission)
Nuclear power, biofuels, clean coal: These are the Obama administration’s answers to climate change. The 2011 budget, released this week, promised new loans for the construction of nuclear power plants, and on Wednesday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), White House, and other departments detailed steps to encourage ethanol and clean coal production.
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House Ag committee chair Collin Peterson vows to sink the Waxman-Markey climate change bill.
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The Obama administration creates the Biofuels Interagency Working Group to help set new standards for the biofuels industry.
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Researchers from North Carolina State University believe Duckweed will be a key to sustainable biofuel ethanol production.
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Day Two from the International Scientific Congress in Copenhagen projects up to 40% of global electricity supply will come from renewable energy.
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Climate Central’s Jessica Harrop explains the concept of carbon debt – how the release of carbon stored in the soil, when land is cleared, can make corn-based ethanol worse than we may have thought in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to climate change.
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Energy security is on everyone’s mind but there’s increasing skepticism that ethanol contributes positively toward that goal. Various environmental organizations are voicing strong objections against the generous subsidies the sector is receiving.
Continue Reading Environmental Organizations Call For End To Ethanol Subsidies
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