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Industrial and Environmental Biotech Weekly Blog Roundup

In industrial biotechnology this week the Wall Street Cheat Sheet says algae is the next great thing. “Algae could be the most promising candidate yet for the future of the biofuels industry. Although… more →

Advanced Biofuels and Climate Change Information Center

UN Climate Change Treaty — 130 comments

USWeapon wrote 2 weeks ago: As many of you are aware, this December Denmark will be the site of the United Nations Climate Confe … more →

Tags: Economics, energy policy, Government Accountability, Politics, voter issues, China, Copenhagen, Global Warming, Gore

Industrial and Environmental Biotech Weekly Blog Roundup

nicoleatbio wrote 3 weeks ago: In industrial biotechnology this week the Wall Street Cheat Sheet says algae is the next great thing … more →

Tags: Algae, award, biofuel, Biofuel Technology, biopreferred, climate change, ethanol, biofuels, Biotechnology

Wrong Question: Can Biofuels Be Carbon Friendly? — 3 comments

pwintersatbiodotorg wrote 1 month ago: The Science Insider blog last week hosted an interesting debate between Tim Searchinger, Princeton v … more →

Tags: biofuel, climate change, climate change legislation, United Nations Climate Change Conference, biofuels, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change, international land use change, Land Use Change

Compounded Climate Accounting Errors — 1 comment

pwintersatbiodotorg wrote 1 month ago: Timothy Searchinger, visiting scholar at Princeton University, Dan Kammen of the University of Calif … more →

Tags: climate change, climate change legislation, greenhouse gas emission, oil prices, renewable fuel standard, United Nations Climate Change Conference, biofuels, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change

Weekly Blog Wrap Up — 1 comment

nicoleatbio wrote 2 months ago: There’s a lot going on in the blogosphere about the world of biofuels this week. Yesterday, the Worl … more →

Tags: Algae, biofuel, Biofuel Technology, biogas, biopreferred, climate change, climate change legislation, ethanol, greenhouse gas emission

Corn Growers Try to Understand Indirect Land Use Change

pwintersatbiodotorg wrote 2 months ago: The National Corn Growers Association’s recent “Land Use: Carbon Impacts of Corn Based Ethanol 2009” … more →

Tags: biofuel, California Air Resources Board, Environmental Protection Agency, ethanol, low-carbon fuel standard, renewable fuel standard, biofuels, corn ethanol, EPA

Dirty debt

Anand Chandrasekhar wrote 3 months ago: With the climate change summit not far away in December in Copenhagen there is a perceptible buzz ab … more →

Tags: climate change, Copenhagen

EPA Gathers Input on RFS

pwintersatbiodotorg wrote 6 months ago: The EPA today held a public hearing on the RFS2 Rule and will be holding a Workshop on Lifecycle Gre … more →

Tags: biofuel, climate change, Environmental Protection Agency, Food and Fuel, renewable fuel standard, biofuels, greenhouse gas emissions, lifecycle analysis, Land Use Change

Don’t Worry, Be Happy — 1 comment

pwintersatbiodotorg wrote 7 months ago: The EPA has released its long-awaited proposed rules for the Renewable Fuel Standard, including calc … more →

Tags: greenhouse gas emission, climate change, oil prices, biofuel, renewable fuel standard, Environmental Protection Agency, Discount Rate, biofuels, greenhouse gas emissions

Best Available Science? — 3 comments

pwintersatbiodotorg wrote 8 months ago: Yesterday, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) released a report, “Biofu … more →

Tags: greenhouse gas emission, climate change, biofuel, renewable fuel standard, low-carbon fuel standard, Environmental Protection Agency, California Air Resources Board, Searchinger, biofuels

Ethanol or Tar Sands? — 4 comments

nathanschock wrote 8 months ago: Those who are pushing the inclusion of indirect land use change (ILUC) in government regulations hav … more →

Tags: climate change, oil prices, biofuel, low-carbon fuel standard, California Air Resources Board, biofuels, greenhouse gas emissions, corn ethanol, Land Use Change

California Proposes Numbers for Indirect Land Use Change Emissions — 5 comments

pwintersatbiodotorg wrote 9 months ago: California issued a staff report last week for its “Proposed Regulation to Implement the Low Carbon … more →

Tags: climate change, biofuel, low-carbon fuel standard, California Air Resources Board, biofuels, greenhouse gas emissions, lifecycle analysis, greenhouse gas, corn ethanol

New Studies Question Cellulosic Biofuels — 1 comment

pwintersatbiodotorg wrote 9 months ago: A new study from MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change examines what it cal … more →

Tags: greenhouse gas emission, climate change, Food and Fuel, biofuel, biofuels, greenhouse gas emissions, Cellulosic, Land Use Change, indirect land use change

New Studies Support Cellulosic Ethanol — 1 comment

pwintersatbiodotorg wrote 9 months ago: A team of researchers led by Jason Hill and David Tilman at the University of Minnesota have publish … more →

Tags: biofuel, climate change, Discount Rate, Environmental Protection Agency, greenhouse gas emission, biofuels, corn ethanol, Environment, EPA

EPA Continues to Move Toward Calculation of Indirect GHGs — 1 comment

pwintersatbiodotorg wrote 1 year ago: Dr. Bruce Dale of Michigan State University published a Commentary in the Washington Times on Nov. 2 … more →

Tags: biofuel, climate change, greenhouse gas emission, oil prices, biofuels, Bruce Dale, California Air Res, CO2, computable general equilibrium

Life Cycle Analysis, International Land Use Change and Uncertainty — 2 comments

pwintersatbiodotorg wrote 1 year ago: Bruce Dale, University Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Michigan State University, … more →

Tags: biofuel, climate change, greenhouse gas emission, Biofuel Technology, Environmental Protection Agency, Fargione, indirect land use change, Land Use, Land Use Change

Does Oil Cause Indirect Land Use Change? — 3 comments

pwintersatbiodotorg wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been paying a lot of attention recently to new analyses attempting to model carbon emissions fr … more →

Tags: greenhouse gas emission, climate change, oil prices, biofuel, ethanol, Searchinger, greenhouse gas emissions, lifecycle analysis, rainforest

It’s Carbon Payback Time — 4 comments

pwintersatbiodotorg wrote 1 year ago: A recent study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin takes another look at the “carbon deb … more →

Tags: greenhouse gas emission, climate change, biofuel, Searchinger, greenhouse gas emissions, Fargione, tropical rainforest

UK Study Highlights Uncertainty in Calculating Indirect Land Use Emissions

pwintersatbiodotorg wrote 1 year ago: Britain’s Renewable Fuels Agency this week released the Gallagher Review, a report on the indirect e … more →

Tags: greenhouse gas emission, climate change, biofuel, ethanol, Searchinger, biofuels, lifecycle analysis, Fargione, Land Use Change


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