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Ethanol and Water

Robert Glennon | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Corn-Based Ethanol, California, Tom Vilsack, Corn, Water, Ethanol Pros and Cons, Environment, Energy Policy Act, Ethanol, Food Prices, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Green News
Robert Glennon

In the case of corn, it takes 2,500 gallons of water to grow enough corn to produce 1 gallon of ethanol. That's right, 2,500 gallons.

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Ethanol: Vilsack, Agriculture Secretary Pick, Is Staunch Biofuel Supporter

New York Times | JEFF ZELENY and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN | Posted 01.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Biofuels, Tom Vilsack, Obama Ethanol, Vilsack Ethanol, Ethanol, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Green News

food assistance in the wake of the economic turmoil. Both Mr. Obama and Mr. Vilsack are regarded as staunch advocates of ethanol and other bio-fuel...

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Shipping Ethanol on Gasoline pipelines: They Said it Couldn't Be Done

Bob Dinneen | Posted 01.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Fuel, Gasoline, Ethanol, Biofuel, Pipeline, Ethanol Transportation, Alternative Energy, Green News
Bob Dinneen

To all those naysayers who said it couldn't be done, Kinder Morgan decided it could and is now the first company shipping ethanol by pipeline in the United States.

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Green Jobs and Biofuels

Bob Dinneen | Posted 01.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Renewable Energy, Cellulosic Ethanol, Ethanol, Biofuels, Green Jobs, Obama Energy Policy, Obama Jobs, Barack Obama, Green News
Bob Dinneen

One of President-elect Obama's key objectives early in his administration is to create 2.5 million jobs through investment in green technologies.

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Simple Solutions for Our Biofuel Problem

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 12.29.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Hydrogen, Methanol, Hydrogen Aircraft, Direct Methanol Fuel Cell, Ethanol, Biofuels From Algae, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

The development of sensible next generation biofuels will take a decade, so, in a sense, we are already too late. But the timing is perfect for change, so let's do it the right way this time.

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Northwest Indiana May House New Ethanol Plant

Chicago Public Radio | Michael Puente | Posted 12.26.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Energy, Lake County Ethanol Plant, Alternative Energy, Northwest Indiana Ethanol Plant, Powers Energy One, Renewable Energy, Energy Crisis, Ethanol Plant Indiana, Ethanol, Chicago News

Officials in Northwest Indiana have already Ok'd the construction of a facility that will turn garbage into ethanol. But finding a suitable site may c...

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How A 2006 Tortilla Crisis Is Still Causing Energy Innovation

AP | ARTHUR MAX | Posted 12.25.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Tortilla Crisis, Biofuels, S Renewable Energy, Food Crisis, Non-Edible Biofuels, Ethanol, Green Energy, Sustainability, Green News

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — In future years we may look back at the Great Mexican Tortilla Crisis of 2006 as the time when ethanol lost its vroom. ...

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A Federal Cap-And-Trade System: More From The Summit

Paige Donner | Posted 12.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Climate Change, California EPA, Cap and Trade, Carter Roberts, Copenhagen 2009, World Wildlife Fund, Kyoto Protocols, Natalia Anderle, Dan Pellissier, Henry Derwent, Co2, Emissions, Barack Obama, Rggi, Governor Schwarzenegger, Federal Cap and Trade, Miss Brazil 2008, Wwf, Linda Adams, Energy Independence, BrasilInvest Group, Ethanol, International Emissions Trading Associationa, Deforestation, Mario Garnero, United Nations Association Brazil, Governor Schwarzenegger Environmental Policy, Barack Obama Environmental Policy, President Elect Obama, Sustainability, Business News
Paige Donner

What's interesting about the governor's climate conference is that you normally would think that international negotiations or solutions are all about Heads of State talking to each another.

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Cellulosic Ethanol: What Is It?

Huffington Post | Posted 12.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Cellulosic Ethanol, Ethanol, Green Energy, Biofuels, S Renewable Energy, Green News

Cellulosic ethanol is a type of fuel made from fibrous plant matter -- the non-edible stuff -- and wood chips. Optimists speculate that it could be as...

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Ethanol and the Price of Food

Ken Cook | Posted 12.15.2008 | Green

Read More: Food, Corn-Based Ethanol, Food Prices, Ethanol, Environmental Working Group, Food Crisis, Green News
Ken Cook

Mr. Vander Griend's main complaint appears to be that while the price of corn has dropped in recent months, the cost of food has not. This should not come as a surprise.

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Flapping Butterfly Wings and the Land Use Debate

Bob Dinneen | Posted 12.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Indirect Land Use, Rainforests, Ethanol, Biofuels, Global Warming, Domestic Land Use, International Land Use, Direct Land Use, Green News
Bob Dinneen

The bottom line here is simple. The growth of the American ethanol industry has, at most, a marginal impact on the land use decisions of farmers around the world.

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Is It Fair To Measure Carbon Effects Of Biofuels?

Wall Street Journal | STEPHEN POWER | Posted 12.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Dupont, Gm, Carbon Emissions, Biofuels, Food Crisis, Biofuels Carbon Footprint, Ethanol, Archer Daniels Midland, Green News

For example, if farmers in Brazil burn and clear more rainforest to grow food because farmers in the U.S. are using their land to grow grain for fuel,...

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Transition Topic III: Alternative Energy Alternatives

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Algae, Obama, Ethanol, Energy Independence, Green Energy, Biofuel, Green Technology, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

Corn-based ethanol saves little oil and contributes even less to minimizing carbon dioxide emissions, drives up the cost of food, and requires almost as much energy from fossil fuels.

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Toil and Trouble
McCain NewsLadder

The Media Consortium | Posted 12.02.2008 | Home

Read More: Ads, John McCain, Ken Duberstein, Health Policy, Economics, Palin Pro-American Areas, Restributionist, The Economy, Stephen Colbert, Joe Biden, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Barack Obama, Going Rogue, Sarah Palin, 2012, Diva, Wack Job, Conservatives, The Media Consortium, Rachel Maddow, Ohio, Laurence Eagleburger, Ethanol, 2008 Presidential Campaign, The Constitution, Mccainiacs, Home News
The Media Consortium

NOTE: After you click a link, click the title of the item to get the full text or video. This week finds our war hero, on Old Hallow's Eve, having fi...

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The Oxymoron of Clean Coal (Joe Biden Had it Right Before He Had it Wrong.)

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Sweden, Flue Gas Treatment, John McCain, Air Particulates, Iceland, Goethermal Energy, Wind Energy, Carbon Emissions, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Vp Debate, Pushker Kharecha, Acid Rain, Joe Biden, Gasification, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Offshore Drilling, Geothermal Extraction, Renewable Resources, Solar Energy, Carbon Storage and Capture, Carbon Sequestration, Mercury, James Hansen, Clean Coal, Ethanol, Department of Energy, Coal Mining, Simran Sethi, Brazi, Green News
Simran Sethi

Clean coal is a lie. The catch-all term is used by politicians and coal advocates alike to lull the American public into complacency.

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Greening Hollywood: The Electric Revolution

Paige Donner | Posted 10.31.2008 | Green

Read More: Cars, Zero Emission, James Woolsey, Flex Fuel Vehicles, Chevy Volt, Energy Independence, Gm, Alternative Energy, Revenge of the Electric Vehicle, Dave Barthmuss, Green, Mccain, Opec, Chris Paine, Cia Director, Alt Car Expo, National Security, Electric Vehicles, Plug in Prius, Prius, Chelsea Sexton, Ev1, Hybrid, Environment, Set America Free Coalition, Ethanol, Green News
Paige Donner

We need to do that to oil. We need to destroy its strategic role and its monopoly over transportation. Electricity, as was the case with salt, is going to be right at the heart of that.

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McCain, Obama on Energy, the Environment and AIDS

Eliza Margarita Bates and Cara Zwerling | Posted 10.17.2008 | Home

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Corruption, John McCain, Cap-and-Trade, Barack Obama; John McCain; McCain Energy; Obama Energy; Barack Obama, Straight Talk Express, Nuclear Power, Greenhouse Gases, The New York Times, Ethanol, Free Market, Mccain Nuclear Power, Home News
Eliza Margarita Bates and Cara Zwerling

Over the course of this week, OffTheBus is running a primer on some of the most important foreign policy issues the next president will face. Today, the primer looks at where Obama and McCain stand on energy and environmental policy and the AIDS crisis.

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We Beat MegaOilron

David Blume | Posted 10.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Ethanol, Green Energy, Biofuels, Green News
David Blume

Rolling back the Renewable Fuel Standard was a key part of that strategy, and you helped foil them. Pat yourselves on the back for dealing Big Oil a serious setback.

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Ethanol Subsidies: Robbing Peter to Pay Paul

Daniel Kessler | Posted 10.07.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Kraft Foods, Ethanol, Greenpeace, Green News
Daniel Kessler

Our country's biofuels policy is resulting in higher fuel prices, food shortages and increased global warming pollution. The latest person to sound th...

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Ethanol In California: How Everything Has To Change For A Little Bit Of Corn

gas 2.0 | Alexis Madrigal | Posted 10.05.2008 | Green

Read More: Ethanol Transportation, Ethanol Shipping, Ethanol in Gas, Biofuels, Ethanol Infrastructure, Green Fuel, Ethanol Pipeline, Ethanol, Green Energy, Renewable Fuels, California Ethanol, Ethanol Percentage, California, Green News

California, which is often forward-thinking on energy issues, challenged itself to use cleaner-burning fuels in the 1980s. Alexis Madrigal, writing fo...

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Top Seven Key Green Election Issues

The Daily Green | Posted 09.28.2008 | Green

Read More: Green Democratic National Convention, Nuclear Energy, Green, Green Dnc, Reduce Energy Costs, Energy Costs, Product Safety, Offshore Drilling, Green Election, Politics of Food, National Security, Environment, Green News, Food, Food Safety, Climate Change, Consumer Product Safety, Ethanol, Save Energy Costs, Global Warming, Green News

The Daily Green compiled a list of the top seven key green election issues. 1. Global Warming Both Obama and McCain agree that global warming is re...

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With Falling Grain Prices, Will Consumers See Lower Prices in the Supermarket?

Bob Dinneen | Posted 09.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices, Food, Ethanol, Corn, Agriculture, Business News
Bob Dinneen

Substantial increase in grain production outlook and decreased speculation have seen a sharp drop in prices for corn, wheat and soybeans, yet anti-ethanol critics continue to complain. What's going on?

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When In a Hole, Stop Drilling

Richard Stuebi | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Oil Prices, Ethanol, Gulf of Mexico, Opec, Peak Oil, Anwr, Offshore Drilling, Green News
Richard Stuebi

I never cease to be amazed by the vehemence of opinions expressed on energy by people who are spectacularly underinformed. Let's first begin with a top ten list of clear-cut facts.

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Corn Crop To Be Larger Than Expected

Los Angeles Times | Jerry Hirsch | Posted 09.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Corn Crop, Usda, Ethanol, Corn, Farmers, Business News

Corn has taken an increasing role in the national economy in recent years because of its dual role as a source for auto fuel and its ubiquitous use in...

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Dear Uncle Sam

Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Uncle Sam, Food Prices, Ethanol, Farm Subsidies, China, Economy, Politics News
Maggie Van Ostrand

It's no wonder people would do anything to get into this country where the streets are paved with gold. That's the only thing we've got that Uncle Sam isn't paying us not to have.

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