Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 10, 2024
Biofuels can play a productive role when used at a sustainable level. Source EIA Monthly Biofuels Capacity and Feedstocks Update ) Using more oils and fats for fuel instead of food and animal feed has consequences for competing users of these products and for the global agricultural system. Source US Energy Information Administration.
Brag
JANUARY 4, 2023
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of a draft document entitled Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft) for public comment. billion gallons per year) in the growth of corn ethanol in the United States from 2002-2012 and may have played a more important role (0-2.1
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Environmental Progress
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
The “climate policies” the authors refer to are ones that would make energy more expensive and result in more bioenergy use (the burning of biofuels and biomass), which in turn would increase land scarcity and drive up food costs. The IPCC comes to the same conclusion. [74] 7] For 1990 data: U.N. 8] Xiaoping Liu et al., 9] Christopher D.
Environmental Progress
SEPTEMBER 12, 2020
For example, the IPCC notes that France had 4,000 fewer deaths than anticipated from a heat wave in 2006 thanks to improved health care, an early-warning system and greater public consciousness in response to a deadly heat wave three years earlier. Better preparedness for heat waves, which could increase in a hotter world, will save lives.
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