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From Global Renewable Fuels Alliance: A new report commissioned by the UK Government has unequivocally concluded that biofuels was not to blame for the so-called food crisis of 2007/2008. The report, ‘The role of demand for biofuel in the agricultural commodity price spikes of 2007/08‘, determined that speculators responding to rapidly declining [...] From 25x’25: The National 25x’25 Steering Committee applauds President Obama and the members of the Biofuels Interagency Working Group for the actions announced today recognizing the role of biofuels in a new, clean energy future. In a report issued by the working group this afternoon, the administration unveiled a plan that will [...] From American Farmland Trust: To help address the confusion over the economic implications of climate policies on U.S. agriculture, a team of seven Kansas State University (KSU) researchers completed an analysis and comparison of six key economic studies that looked at the effects of the Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2454—also known as [...] From IREC: The sixth edition of the Interstate Renewable Energy Council’s (IREC) Connecting to the Grid Guide is now available on the IREC website. This guide provides a comprehensive introduction to a span of topics that relate to grid-tied renewable energy sources. The sixth edition has been revised to include information on [...] The Congressional Research Service released the report Climate Change: Costs and Benefits of the Cap-and-Trade Provisions. The report raises skepticism about recent claims and calculations about both the potential costs and benefits of cap-and-trade. The report warns: Long-term cost projections are at best speculative, and should be viewed with attentive skepticism. The finer and more detailed [...] The US EPA and DOE-NREL have developed the State Bioenergy Primer to bring together technical and non-technical resources to provide useful, targeted information that will enable a state decision maker to determine if he/she wants or needs more details related to biomass feedstocks, bioenergy technology, bioheat, biopower, biofuels, or bioproducts. The Primer [...] The report, Regional Strategy for Biobased Products in the Mississippi Delta from the Memphis Bioworks Foundation, finds that there is significant economic development opportunities in the Mississippi Delta. The study found that the Delta region has the infrastructure and natural resources for the successful development of oilseed crushing facilities, biomass densification facilities, cellulosic liquid fuel [...] From 25x’25: With a recent USDA crop production report showing healthy harvest projections for this fall, and an article from an Iowa State University professor detailing the environmental advantages of ethanol over gasoline, a little sanity seems to have returned to the debate over biofuels. The crop report seems to have tempered the ill-informed attacks from [...] The report Sustainable Approach to Forest Carbon Sequestration Projects is the product of the Southern Group of State Foresters SUM Task Force (ecological services, utilization, and marketing). It was developed using a collaborative approach from members across the South and approved by the Southern Group of State Foresters. The intent of this report [...] From 25×25: A 13-page USDA analysis of climate change legislation recently adopted by the House was relatively positive in its assessment of costs and benefits to the agriculture and forestry sectors. However, the document, Preliminary Analysis of the Effects of HR 2454 on U.S. Agriculture, which was released by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack at a Senate [...] |
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