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The Trump Administration’s New Biofuels Targets Threaten Carbon-Rich Rainforests

The U.S. doesn’t have enough bio-based diesel to meet the administration’s new mandate, so blenders will have to import yet more foreign crop-based oils.

By Georgina Gustin

Soybeans are unloaded from a lorry at a biodiesel complex in Santa Fe, Argentina. Credit: Eitan Abramovich/AFP via Getty Images
A view of an ethanol production plant on March 20, 2024, near Ravenna, Neb. Credit: David Madison/Getty Images

Biofuels Policy, a Mainstay of American Agriculture, Has Been a Failure for the Climate, a New Report Claims

By Georgina Gustin

An aerial view shows farmworkers harvesting corn on Oct. 31, 2023 near McIntire, Iowa. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

As California Pushes Increased Ethanol Use, Experts Sound the Alarm on Environmental Impacts

By Nina B. Elkadi

A view of the POET ethanol plant in Lake Crystal, Minn. Credit: Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images

Biofuel Refineries Are Releasing Toxic Air Pollutants in Farm Communities Across the US

By Georgina Gustin

The Western Meadowlark, state bird of North Dakota, was studied during research on the prevalence of grassland birds in fields of corn and soy beans in North Dakota used for biofuels. Credit: Jon G. Fuller / VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

What’s More Harmful to Birds in North Dakota: Oil and Gas Drilling, or Corn and Soybeans?

By Lydia Larsen

Crunch Time for Ethanol Subsidy

By Elizabeth McGowan

Corn Ethanol Boom Driving 'Dead Zone' Expansion, Federal Scientists Say

By Stacy Feldman

Yet Another Biofuel Hopeful Goes Public, Bets on Isobutanol

By Sara Stroud

Scottish Scientists Develop Whisky Biofuel

By Guest Writer

Corn Ethanol Subsidy Under Siege from Many Quarters, Renewal in Question

By Stacy Feldman

Biofuels Industry Blames Washington for Holding Back Cellulosic Ethanol

By Stacy Feldman

As Cars and People Compete for Grain, Price of Grain and Oil Move Together

By Lester R. Brown

New Questions about Toxic By-Products of Biofuel Combustion

By Guest Writer

Green Groups Say Proposed Bill for Advanced Biofuels is Flawed

By Dave Levitan

Gulf Oil Spill Spawns Biofuels Industry Opportunism

By Dave Levitan

Picking Winners: Obama Budget Shifts Tax Incentives Toward Renewables

By Dave Levitan

Turning Food Into Fuel While Families Go Hungry

By Max Ajl

U.S. CO2 Emissions to Rise 8.7% by 2035 Unless Government Acts

By Matthew Berger

Biofuels: Hope or Hype?

By Jeanne Roberts

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