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Urge 'Lame Duck' Congress to Fight for Alternative Fuels

Jeff Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Jeff Simmons

The biofuels industry is in a fledgling state. If our leaders make a strategic error now, the American ethanol industry could suffer and we may be forced to buy ethanol from our foreign competitors.

Time to Stop Subsidizing Ethanol

Erich Pica | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Erich Pica

The $5 billion VEETC subsidy pads the pockets of Big Oil but does almost nothing to advance its stated purpose of actually promoting ethanol production.

Vilsack Changes Tune on the Ethanol Tariff

Joel Velasco | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Joel Velasco

Tom Vilsack should remember that there's wisdom -- and benefits for Americans in the form of lower fuel prices and taxpayer savings -- to be found in fostering competition.

From Burning River to Burning Ocean, the Fight for Clean Water Continues

John DeCock | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
John DeCock

That we sacrifice the availability and the integrity of clean water every single day for generating energy is an enormous and largely unknown national tragedy.

Extending Ethanol Tax Credit Makes Sense

Bob Barr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Bob Barr

The ethanol tax credit program, despite what critics may say, is both a benefit to private industry as well as a net contributor of jobs and tax revenues. It should not be eliminated.

NRDC and Others Slam Ethanol Tax Credit Give Away to Oil in New Ad

Nathanael Greene | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Nathanael Greene

Everyone who thinks Big Oil should get $31 billion from U.S. taxpayers, please sign on the dotted line.That's the message of a new ad running today in Congress Daily.

Study Shows Taxpayers Subsidizing Ethanol At $4.18 Per Gallon

Nathanael Greene | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Nathanael Greene

The corn ethanol tax credit is a huge waste of money. We don't need an additional 1.4 billion gallons of corn ethanol or the deforestation that comes with it. And we sure as heck don't need to be spending $4.18 per gallon for it.