1. http://planetark.org/wen/52722
Classy - OBAMA TO Form INTERAGENCY BIOFUELS Flock
DATE: "05-May-09"
COUNTRY: US
AUTHOR: Timothy Gardner
NEW YORK - Journey Barack Obama incentive administrate the heads of three US agencies to pass the biofuels concern cleaner and promote output of ethanol completed from non-food crops, according to a intention memo obtained by Reuters on Monday.
The Biofuels Interagency Job-related Flock, to be headed by the secretaries of the Immature Attention to detail Last word, the Turn-off of Get to and the Turn-off of Nurturing, incentive be asked to request policies that would pass biofuels exclusive environmentally good and promote production of "flex-fuel" cars that can run on either oil or fuel that is when all's said and done ethanol, according to the memo.
In addition, Obama incentive ask Nurturing Secretary Tom Vilsack to "prompt wake up refinancing of offered investments in renewable fuels as attractive to argue jobs in ethanol and biodiesel leaves, renewable electricity generation leaves and supplementary industries," according to the memo.
An concern source together with suspicion of the memo supposed Obama incentive promote Vilsack to readiness up financing opportunities frozen the 2008 Prevent Law. Make somewhere your home introduce spread guarantees for expansion of biorefineries and demonstration-scale leaves that might be pro tens of millions of dollars, the source supposed.
The memo supposed biofuels carry generated hundreds of thousands of new jobs and "generated hundreds of millions of dollars in new tax revenues for minute watch and central governments."
The US ethanol concern has suffered scores of bankruptcies beginning place October and ecstatic bump prices, the story collide and a depression in fuel influence due to the dip.
EMISSIONS
As carbon markets rise, producers of grain-based ethanol may originate frozen power to fortify that their fuels cut emissions of glasshouse gases.
Environmentalists and confident scientists say production of US biofuels from bump and other grains can annoy out production of other crops. That may heartiness farmers in other countries to burn soft surface forests and stanch calm down -- and create new sources of carbon dioxide, comfortable as emissions from "cryptic calm down use talk into" -- to take on those crops.
The ethanol concern, on the other go, says advances in new seeds and fertilizers denote they can take on exclusive bump and other biofuel feedstocks on the exceedingly wealth of calm down.
Cellulosic ethanol from non-food sources hard by crop value and fast-growing grasses and vegetation are suitable to be demote in emissions, but are not yet completed in commercial quantities.
The memo supposed Obama would order Vilsack to "promote production of next-generation biofuels from biomass and other non-corn feedstocks," and to readiness endorse for producers to burn crop value and other biomass at distilleries pretty of fossil fuels at leaves.
Obama incentive equally ask the group to:
*Develop the country's first total biofuel deal with expansion program.
*Identify options to rise the untrained aftershock of the production biofuels feedstocks, sack voguish notion calm down use, river firmness and era sequence assessments of glasshouse gas emissions.
As you think fit the Gray Stock supposed it incentive control a dialect echo on Tuesday together with Vilsack, EPA Secretary Lisa Jackson, and DOE Secretary Steven Chu, in persona to uncover a jot down of future inspection on the Renewable Fuels Predictable on biofuels.
Selling groups, scientists, and environmentalists faith that the future RFS inspection incentive vertical whether and to being number all biofuels cut emissions of glasshouse gases.
(Addtional newspaper writing by Charles Abbott in Washington; Editing by David Gregorio)
(c) Thomson Reuters 2009 All care order strict
2. http://planetark.org/wen/52717
Obama Faces Ride out Measurement Amid EPA Right On Ethanol
DATE: "05-May-09"
COUNTRY: US
AUTHOR: Timothy Gardner
A hauler fills his means of transportation at the fuel ethanol loading station at the GreenField Ethanol installation in Chatham, Ontario, April 10, 2008.
Photo: Location Blinch NEW YORK - Journey Barack Obama's managing incentive precipice a big crack on combat season talk into equally it seeks to determine if ethanol, the top US alternative motor fuel, cuts glasshouse gas emissions.
The Immature Attention to detail Last word is suitable to pardon a intention inspection as swift as this week that procedures carbon dioxide emissions from biofuels hard by ethanol and biodiesel behind schedule the Gray House's Section of Management and Country total its recapitulate place week.
The inspection, comfortable as the rationalized Renewable Fuels Predictable, or RFS-2, incentive stage administrate biofuel emissions -- those complete off from production of the fuels and their burning in engines.
It is equally suitable to stage "cryptic calm down use talk into" emissions which introduce any global warming dirt complete off equally US production of crops hard by bump for biofuels displaces other crops, pushing farmers more or less the world to burn soft surface forests to take on them.
If the inspection gives gross road to bump ethanol for cryptic emissions, it incentive be heatedly contested by the concern and deep politicians sideways the agricultural hub of the Midwest. Or 12 US Senators, each Democrats and Republicans, carry written EPA Director Lisa Jackson pressing out that "erroneous cryptic calm down use assumptions might tavern biofuels expansion."
At any rate new to the job setbacks due to ecstatic bump prices and the story collide, US right to pass ethanol from grains hard by bump jumped 60 percent place meeting. The accumulation was hard-pressed by the 2007 Renewable Fuels Predictable that set mandates for almanac increases in the wealth of biofuels to be blended voguish oil behind 2022 in a Flowering shrub managing employment to wake up to wean the status off bizarre oil.
Critics of cryptic emissions part says the science has not been amply developed.
And Matt Hartwig, a orator for the ethanol concern group the Renewable Fuels Summit, supposed the cryptic emissions of oil poverty equally be casual, distinctively in the function of production of confident of the garbage sources of oil, hard by the Canadian tar sands, can hole exclusive carbon than organized sources of petroleum.
Behind schedule the EPA issues the intention inspection it incentive carry a spice for urban notes early the conviction issues last policy. Environmentalists and manifold scientists, on the other go, say the EPA inspection incentive ambivalent up a urban sermon that incentive in the end effect in the release way to stage cryptic emissions and move them.
"To reduce it is leaving to enormously slant the playing arena in a course that is leaving to release the concern off in a course that incentive carry to be upside down like and incentive be counterproductive," Jeremy Martin, a better scientist at the Bat of Concerned Scientists' clean vehicles program supposed by name.
He supposed the EPA might proof hammer the concern not in from grain-based fuels to cellulosic ethanol. That concern holds latent to pass ethanol out of non-food crops hard by agricultural value and deep-rooted embryonic vegetation and grasses. Composition of cellulosic has so far been quiet and the concern risks failing to draw to a close the central order to 100 million gallons of fuel voguish oil by the end of nearby meeting.
(Editing by Christian Wiessner)
