European agency recommends pullback from biofuel craze.
In light of recent studies indicating that biofuels, such as ethanol, have numerous adverse global effects, and may actually be worse for the environment than petroleum, the European Environment Agency’s scientific advisory board recommended this week to suspend the 10% biofuel target in place for the EU.
It is unclear what policy change, if any, will result, but this is indicative of a push back against the trend in favor of biofuels. Given all of the recent scientific criticism of biofuel, it will be interesting to see if the United States follows suit in looking to roll back these policies, or if we have in fact, already become addicted to corn.
Hat tip: Green-blog.org
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