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  • EXCLUSIVE: Biomass Energy and the Carbon Neutral Shell Game

    - by Brett Leuen­berg­er, July 6, 2015 (Graph­ics by Brett Leuenberger) Who would have ever thought that clean renew­able ener­gy could come from a smoke­stack? And yet, accord­ing to our U.S. gov­ern­ment and the bio­mass indus­try, that’s exact­ly what’s hap­pen­ing when you burn trees (bio­mass) for ener­gy. I don’t know about you, but when it comes…

  • Ethanol, Fighting for Its Life, Gets a Temporary Reprieve

    - by Matthew Philips, Novem­ber 24, 2014, Bloomberg Busi­ness­week The ethanol indus­try just avoid­ed a death blow. Rather than decid­ing to per­ma­nent­ly low­er the amount of renew­able fuels that have to be blend­ed into the U.S. gaso­line sup­ply, as it first pro­posed a year ago, the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency last week opt­ed to wait until next year to decide.…