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time.com - 5/12/2009

Stress-Testing Biofuels: How the Game Was Rigged

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Last week, while the financial world was obsessing over stress tests for fragile banks, the environmental and agricultural worlds were watching the results of the Obama Administration's stress tests for renewable fuels. An outgrowth of the 2007 energy bill, the tests were supposed to document ...

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e360.yale.edu - 5/12/2009

The Razing of Appalachia: Mountaintop Removal Revisited

— e360.yale.edu — Over the past two decades, mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia has obliterated or severely damaged more than... a million acres of forest and buried more than 1,000 miles of streams. Now, the Obama administration is showing signs it plans to crack ... (more) The Razing of Appalachia: Mountaintop Removal Revisited

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whitehouse.gov - 5/12/2009

OMB - Blog Post - Clearing the Air

— whitehouse.gov — Media reports today are suggesting that OMB has found fault with EPA s proposed finding that emissions... of greenhouse gases from motor vehicles contribute to air pollution that endangers public health and welfare. Any reports suggesting that OMB was ... (more) OMB - Blog Post - Clearing the Air

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ewg.org - 5/18/2009

Ethanol-Gasoline Fuel Blends May Cause Human Health Risks and Engine Issues

— ewg.org — May 18th, 2009 In March 2009 corn ethanol producers asked for help from the federal government to... expand their industry. Growth Energy, a consortium of ethanol producers, petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to allow ... (more) Ethanol-Gasoline Fuel Blends May Cause Human Health ...

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Government Sells out to Big Ag
The Understory : Understory.RAN.org — ... claim to take into account the life-cycle carbon footprint of these fuels into account, Time Magazine points out that they still amount to giant handouts for the domestic ethanol and biofuels industry. ...

Stress-Testing Biofuels: How the Game Was Rigged
Peak Oil News — ... bridge" to better biofuels. The Administration also announced that it plans to push the auto industry to make flex-fuel vehicles that run on 85% ethanol blends — and since ethanol plants have been slammed by a combination of high corn prices, the rise of cleaner technologies and the lousy economy, Washington will help them get credit. In other words: O.K., O.K., it might imperil the planet, but fortunately we can't do anything to stop it, and we actually plan to encourage it. Time

DrumBeat: May 13, 2009
The Oil Drum — Stress-Testing Biofuels: How the Game Was Rigged Last week, while the financial world was obsessing over stress tests for fragile banks, the environmental and agricultural worlds were watching the results of the Obama Administration's stress tests for renewable fuels. An outgrowth of the 2007 energy bill, the tests were supposed to document whether corn ethanol and other biofuels designed to replace fossil fuels would accelerate or alleviate global warming overall. But like the much-criticized bank checkups, these stress tests don't seem particularly ...